Rocky Road Cake
- 175 g digestive biscuits
- 100 g melted butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 300 g semisweet chocolate, plus
- 50 g semisweet chocolate
- 400 ml heavy cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 500 ml chopped marshmallows
- 400 ml chopped almonds, unskinned
- 200 ml chopped marshmallows
- 50 ml chopped almonds, unskinned
- 50 g chopped semisweet chocolate
- Preheat oven to 175C Line the bottom of a 22 cm cake tin (with removable bottom) with parchment paper.
- To make crust: Crush digestive biscuits and mix with melted butter and sugar.
- Press into the prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
- Allow to cool.
- To prepare filling: Melt 300 g of chocolate on top of a double boiler.
- Heat cream in a saucepan to boiling point and remove from heat.
- Lightly whip egg yolks in a bowl.
- Add 100 ml of hot cream to the whipped egg yolks.
- Mix well and then pour the egg&cream mixture into the saucepan and combine with cream.
- Combine egg&cream mixture with the melted chocolate.
- Chop the remaining chocolate (50 g) and combine with chopped marshmallows and almonds.
- Sprinkle mixture on top of the baked crust.
- Top with chocolate&cream mixture, reserving about 100 ml for the topping.
- Place the cake in the fridge for at least an hour.
- To make topping: Combine chopped marshmallows, almonds and chocolate.
- Sprinkle mixture on top of the cooled cake.
- Drizzle the remaining filling mixture on top of the cake.
- Return the cake to the fridge for a while before serving.
digestive biscuits, butter, sugar, semisweet chocolate, semisweet chocolate, heavy cream, egg yolks, almonds, marshmallows, almonds, semisweet chocolate
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/rocky-road-cake-162169 (may not work)