Sorry it's been a while, how are you? We're good, little baby S is getting more and more adorable by the day, smiling away at the most random things (coats and walls seem to amuse him highly!) and I've been getting extremely excited about the coming of Christmas.
Last year, Christmas took a back seat as M and I were planning and making and getting all excited about getting married. This year, we'll have our gorgeous 12 week old baba, so once again, there won't be as much time as I'd like for making and cooking all manner of Christmassy treats.
However, I have managed to make one of my favourite Christmas treats, and seeing as we're only 4 days into December, I think that's pretty good! So, out came my Nigella Christmas book, and Rocky Road was born. It's everything Christmas should be - sweet, chocolately and very, very indulgent!
Christmas Rocky Road by Nigella
Ingredients
250g/9oz dark chocolate, chopped
150g/5oz milk chocolate, chopped
175g/6oz butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
4 tbsp golden syrup
200g/7oz amaretti biscuits
150g/5oz red glacé cherries
125g/4oz mini marshmallows
1 tbsp icing sugar to decorate (optional)
Method
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.
4. Take the pan of melted chocolate mixture off the heat and add the crushed biscuits.
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 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.
There are also lots of other things on my Christmas cooking to do list, here are a few:
Lots of mulled alcohol - Wine and Cider
Christmas cookie decorations
Christmas Muffins
What's everyone else cooking up?
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