Christmas Rocky Road - Nigella Lawson

Total Time: 2 hrs 2 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 2 mins

Ingredients

• 9 ounces dark chocolate, chopped (250g)
• 5 ounces milk chocolate, chopped (150g)
• 6 ounces butter, softened plus extra for greasing (175g)
• 4 tablespoons golden syrup
• 7 ounces amaretti (200g)
• 5 ounces shelled brazil nuts (150g)
• 5 ounces red glace cherries (150g)
• 4 ounces mini marshmallows (125g)
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar (125g) or 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar (125g)
• edible glitter, to decorate (optional)

Recipe

• 1 place the dark and milk chocolate pieces into a heavy-based pan. add the butter and golden syrup and cook over a low heat to melt and combine.
• 2 place the amaretti biscuits into a freezer bag and bash with a rolling pin to make crumbs of various sizes.
• 3 place the brazil nuts into another freezer bag and bash in the same way.
• 4 take the pan of melted chocolate mixture off the heat and add the crushed biscuits and nuts.
• 5 add the glacé cherries and mini marshmallows. fold the mixture carefully to coat all of the solid ingredients with the syrupy chocolate mixture.
• 6 pour the mixture into a 25cm/10in x 30cm/12in greased and lined baking tray (swiss roll pan) and smooth the surface as much as possible (although it will look bumpy).
• 7 refrigerate for two hours, or until firm enough to cut. dust with icing sugar, then sprinkle with edible glitter if you wish.
• 8 remove the block of rocky road from the tray and cut into 24 rectangles.