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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Chocolate, marshmallows, peanut butter, and nuts all combined to make a delicious, no bake treat. If you love bowl of rocky road ice cream, you may just like this better!
For more incredibly chocolatey marshmallow desserts, why not try this recipe for Marshmallow Yule Log or some Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares? If something warm sounds better, try these Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: These bars will take only 10 minutes to make, but they do need to chill for several hours.
- Variations: The key ingredients of rocky road are chocolate, marshmallows, and nuts. You can modify all of those to suit your personal preferences. Why not add a few white chocolate chips, some butterscotch chips, or a dusting of festive sprinkles to the top of the rocky road before it cools?
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a 9×13 baking pan, some parchment paper, a large pot, and a mixing spoon.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Marshmallows: Mini marshmallows will work best for these, but you could chop up large ones, or try some colourful ones instead. If you go to the grocery store at the right time, you might even be able to find maple-flavoured marshmallows.
Peanut Butter: Use whichever peanut butter you like best. Crunchy peanut butter will obviously give you the most texture, but if you prefer smooth that’s fine too.
Chocolate: Dark, milk, or semi-sweet chocolate chips will give you the richest colour contrast. You could totally use white chocolate if you like that better. You’ll be melting the chocolate with your peanut butter, so the size of chocolate chips doesn’t matter. Chips, chunks, or morsels, whatever works for you.
Nuts: This recipe calls for walnuts or peanuts, but pecans or cashews would also work. Whichever nuts you choose to use, make sure to chop them up into small enough bits that they’ll mix well.
How To Make The Best Rocky Road
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of instructions and step-by-step ingredients are in the recipe card below.
- Line 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- Melt peanut butter, butter, and chocolate in a large pot on low-medium heat. Stir until smooth. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and nuts.
- Wait for mixture to cool enough that you can touch the bottom of the pot with your bare hand, and then stir in the marshmallows.
- Press mixture into the prepared pan and let cool completely. Slice and serve.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Rocky Road
Eat Them Frozen: Slice these into individual bars, spread them out on a cookie sheet, and freeze them until they are solid. Then, put them in a freezer safe container and layer them with parchment paper for long term freezing. That way, you can eat them straight out of the freezer without even having to defrost them first. They make a great cold treat to grab on hot summer days.
Why Not: Since rocky road already has most of the delicious flavour of s’mores, why not add a graham cracker layer? Press a graham cracker crust into the bottom of the pan before adding the rocky road mixture, or crumble up some graham crackers or a bit of Golden Grahams cereal on top while it’s still warm.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once these are cooled and sliced, you can keep them in a sealed container in the fridge for up to a week.
Freezer: These freeze well for several months. Just cut them into individual bars first so you don’t end up with a solid chunk of chocolate.
More Delicious No Bake Recipes
Looking for more quick recipes that you can make without turning on your oven?
Try these Christmas Haystacks and No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies for your next holiday party.
Like pies better? Make a No Bake Key Lime Pie or Classic No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie.
There you go, folks. Another quick and easy recipe that you will satisfy your sweet tooth. Try these and let me know what you think.
Happy (No) Baking!
Karlynn
Rocky Road
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- one 300 gram package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, or peanuts
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 7 cups mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- Place the butter, peanut butter and chocolate chips into a large saucepan. Heat over low-medium heat until melted and smooth, stirring frequently.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla and nuts.
- Cool until you can safely touch the bottom of the pot, then stir in the marshmallows.
- Spread out evenly in the prepared pan. Cool completely and let set, then slice and serve.
- These freeze well and even taste better frozen!
Notes
- You can add any type of nut that you prefer in these, we like walnuts but peanuts are also common
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Sarah says
what does “Hear the butter” mean?? It’s on the top at the beginning??
pls respond today 10.14.24.
thanks
Karlynn J says
that should be the word “heat”, but when making the recipe make sure to always follow what’s in the recipe card, anything in the post is just guidelines and tips and tricks!