Typical rocky road is a classic combo of chocolate, marshmallow and nuts. This version ups the ante with a delicious, sweet rendition that includes the likes of honeycomb, dried fruit, cookies and more. It's extra in all the right ways.

Ingredients

Olive oil, for greasing
4 oz dark chocolate (70%)
4 oz high-quality milk chocolate
8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick)
¼ cup golden syrup or honey
8 large marshmallows (or 1 cup mini marshmallows)
5 oz cookies, such as ginger nuts, digestives or Biscoff (about 20 small cookies)
Scant ¾ cup unsalted nuts, such as pistachios or toasted hazelnuts
3 oz chocolate-covered honeycomb (like Crunchie bars, or you could use malted chocolate balls)
¼ cup glacé cherries or dried fruit
2 oz high-quality white chocolate

Directions

  1. Lightly grease a 9 x 13-inch baking dish and line it with a sheet of damp parchment paper.
  2. Place a heatproof bowl on top of a pan of lightly simmering water, break in the dark and milk chocolates, add the butter and syrup or honey, and stir occasionally until melted.
  3. Quarter the marshmallows (keep mini marshmallows whole), break up the cookies, roughly chop or bash up the nuts, bash up the honeycomb and halve the cherries or dried fruit, if needed, then stir them into the chocolate mixture.
  4. Pour into the prepared dish and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours, then carefully turn out.
  5. Break the white chocolate into a clean heatproof bowl and melt as described in step 2 (or melt in the microwave, if easier). Drizzle the melted chocolate over the rocky road, let set in the fridge, then cut up and serve.

Excerpted from Let’s Cook by Buddy Oliver published by Appetite © Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited. Recipe photography © David Loftus & Paul Stuart, 2025. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.