Easy Rocky Road Candy

Sweet, nutty, chewy, and only four ingredients! Easy Rocky Road Candy comes together fast and satisfies any sweet tooth. It’s not just an ice cream flavor.

Versions of Rocky Road

How many of you thought Rocky Road existed only in ice cream form? Yes, me too. But, friends, we is wrong.

Rocky Road is a chocolate candy that includes different ingredients depending on who is making it. In traditional American-style Rocky Road, it is just three ingredients: chocolate, marshmallows, and walnuts (or almonds). With all the lumps and bumps on the surface, it really does look like a rocky road.

Recently, I discovered that Rocky Road exists in the UK and Australia and they each have their own very different versions. Across the Atlantic, the British include dried fruit and biscuit (cookie) pieces in theirs. And across the Pacific, the Australians tip in glacé cherries, shredded coconut, marshmallows, and peanuts.

They all sound delicious.

But for me, the chocolate marshmallow walnut trifecta of Rocky Road is nostalgic. It was one of the few ice cream flavors available at the military commissary when my brother and I were growing up. Vanilla was and still is my favorite, but Rocky Road is a close second.

This toothsome treat is nice to bring to a potluck, party, or girls' night. It disappears fast.

Lessons Learned

• Use whatever chocolate you like, dark, milk, or a combo of the two. I used Ghiradelli 60% dark.
• Don’t like walnuts? They are traditional in American-style Rocky Road candy, but other nuts would be just as delicious. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pecans, or pistachios are all great subs.
• Whatever nut you wind up choosing, be sure to toast them first! They will taste nuttier and keep their crunch for longer.

Hat Tips

Many thanks to my mother-in-law Sue who makes a similar chocolate candy minus the marshmallows and to Recipe Tin Eats for the Rocky Road recipe inspiration.

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