Nici Wickes: Easter Rocky Road

With the price of Easter eggs through the roof this year I’m making this rocky road as the ultimate sweet treat for the long weekend!   

Makes one tray  

  

Ingredients 

• 200g dark chocolate, chopped    
• 200g milk chocolate, chopped   
• 50g butter   
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup or maple syrup  
• 100g roasted almonds, chopped roughly   
• ½ cup chopped dried apricots   
• 1 cup chopped marshmallow eggs  
• 1 cup mini eggs, some chopped some left whole   

  

Method 

1. Line a shallow 20x20cm dish with baking paper.  
2. Gently melt both chocolates, butter, and syrup in a pot over a low heat.   
3. Stir in the almonds, apricots, and pieces of marshmallow eggs. Scrape into the dish and smooth the top as much as possible.  
4. Push the mini eggs down into the surface and chill for 3 hours or overnight until set.   
5. Cut into squares.  

  

Nici’s note:  

You can get inventive with this recipe and use any type of nut and dried fruit really – try hazelnuts and golden raisins or walnuts and prunes.   

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be Nicky. Wiks Cook is here with a fantastic
sounding Easter treat for us this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Kilder Nikki killed a Jack.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I also loved listening to that tramping story because I
didn't I didn't enjoy the route boot quite as much
as you made it sound. I mean, I you know,
it feels as though it's a childbirth story for me,
where it's getting better the longer, the longer that the
longer the time goes between having done the tramp. But honestly,

(00:42):
that was hard, and I remember we talked about it
before I went, but it was hard work for me.
It was hard yacker. But the pride is starting to
overcome the shop.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, I actually had to do that. See, I think
that's it for me too. And my wife actually goes
one step further. She thinks that my life has been
so cushy. These are her words. My life has been
so cushy that I need to suffer in order to
feel any sense of satisfaction. I have to create suffering
for myself. That's what she said. Probably that's probably true.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Your wife is probably right about that.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, this is sort of something I'm like, is that
a good thing or a bad thing?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah? All right, well I'll start pegging back my eye.
Will I never need to go that far into the
wilderness again, exactly, story, And I'll start pigging that back
because you made it sound so glorious and so romantic.
And yes I did have all those feelings, but I
didn't know them at the time because I was just.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So so exhausted because focused on the page. Anyway, Yeah, yeah, yes,
it is.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
A mind game. Tramping look East is a bit of
a mind game too, And I think I was just thinking.
I think this recipe is for those of you out
there who thought I'm not buying chocolate this year Easter eggs.
I'm going to be good and I'm not going to
have treats. But now you're melting with your resolves melting,
and you're suddenly like, I actually do want lots of chocolate. Tree. Yeah,

(01:59):
this is my Easter rocky road, and you'll be able
to get most of this at your local dairy, I suspect.
So it's super simple, and it's really in a couple
of hours because it's you know, you can pop it
in the freezer and make it set. Makes a sort
of a big chunk of it, a big slab about
twenty by twenty centimeters line a baking baking tray or
something a little baking dish with baking paper. Melt two

(02:20):
hundred grams of dark chocolate and two hundred grams of
milk chocolate. I always do that in the old fashioned way,
just in a pot on a really low heat. I've
chopped the chocolate up, and if you put fifty grams
of butter with it in one tablespoon of golden syrup
or maple syrup, it stops it doing what chocolate sometimes does,
which is seas when it gets it's warm. But if
you put the butter in the syrup in it won't.

(02:41):
So that you've got a lovely, shiny, shiny melted chocolate
brew with melted melted chocolate. Stir in the following, and
this is what makes it into the lovely rocky road.
One hundred grams of roasted almonds. I sometimes use those
Tamari almonds too, Jack, which I just think, God, you
get this lovely wicked kind of tamari sauce, but salty
in there, which is lovely half a cup of chopped

(03:02):
dried apricots you could use some other you know, you
could use figs if you or even prunes, and then
one cup of chopped marshmallow eggs or marshmallows, either one
in there, and I just you know, mix all of
that together and scrape that into your dish, smooth the
top as much as you can. And then if you've
got some other mini eggs. I love those little colorful

(03:23):
ones or the little caramelow ones, and you can just
chop those up and pour the and put you know,
scatter them over the top and it'll be ready. Chill
it for sort of two to three hours or overnight
until it's set, cut it into squares, and it's just divine.
It is so good because you get to use good
quality chocolate in this where sometimes our Easter eggs are
not the best quality. And yeah, so this is great

(03:46):
Easter Rocky Road and the other one. If you can't
be bothered doing any of that, go and buy yourself
one of those long sort of cellophane. I think there's
six marshmallow eggs and then there are they only do
a half egg. Now, even Jacket's so disgusting. They don't
even join the dew together, but pop them in the freezer.
Do yourself a treat, prop them in the freezer, and
then eat them frozen. Oh my goodness, you cannot believe

(04:07):
how good they are.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
So the marshmallow ones you.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Like, Yeah, you put them and you put them in
the freezer, and honestly, the chocolate then cracks as you
crunch into it. Marshmallow never quite freezes all the way through,
so it's sort of chewy. Oh so much better than
having them fresh.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
So that.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
This is shocking to me that you've got a chocolate
eating tip that I wasn't already a weary It is
a great information, Okay, yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Of experimentation outdoors, as you get older, you can enjoy
these little tips too.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I mean, that's the other thing. My wife also says
that's going tramping is just an excuse to like eat
copious amounts of picking mix and lollies and all of that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Look, I made the mistake of doing that. We talked
about what food to take, and I didn't take the
right food. I tried to do the trampy stuff plus
the musley bars and all that. But I don't eat
stuff like that. So in the car on the way
back from Glen ORKI, once we'd come out, I said
to my two vegetarian sisters, I might add I see
it next time. You know what I'm going to take.
I'm going to take a big slab of bacon and

(05:10):
egpie and I reckon that's going to last me the
whole time.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I reckon, that's a very good option.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
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