Mate, this vegan rocky road is one of the easiest treats you can make.

My vegan rocky road includes 85% milk-free dark chocolate and vegan marshmallows along with a handful of other tasty ingredients which makes it just as delicious and decadent as you remember without any of the dairy and sad animal products.

I love rocky road. It’s soooooo easy to make – mix up the ingredients with a buttery, syrupy decadent chocolate sauce and set in the fridge before slicing into mouth-watering bars.

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Jazz it up for Christmas:

Instead of the usual rich tea biscuits (which are vegan by the way), I’ve thrown in LOTUS BISCOFF (which are also vegan), but they work wonders with the dark chocolate.

In the Christmas spirit, I’ve crammed in some brazil nuts and glacé cherries (as red as Rudolph’s nose), along with snowy white vegan marshmallows. If the snowfall of icing sugar to finish them off isn’t Christmas-y enough for you – feel free to add some edible glitter too!

How have you made rocky road vegan?

The chocolate:

Traditional recipes might use a mixture of dark and milk chocolate. For this vegan rocky road, I’ve kept it to dark chocolate only as most brands are vegan!

Chocolate is made from cacao beans, which are grown on cacao trees. This means that in its rawest form, chocolate is vegan. However, manufacturers begin to add milk to create the different varieties of chocolate you see on the shelves.

Dark chocolate ISN’T often made with milk, and it’s one of the more raw forms of chocolate on supermarket shelves as it has high percentages of cacao.

For this recipe, I have used Lindt EXCELLENCE 85% dark chocolate. Their 70%, 90% and 99% are also dairy-free.

Lidl’s Fin Carré dark chocolate is milk-free and more affordable.

The butter:

When you choose a vegan butter, you want something that tastes, acts and behaves very similarly to dairy butter blocks. I tend to use either the Vegan block by Naturli and recently I have favoured Flora’s Plant Butter block which I used for this vegan rocky road. Both offer fantastic results in cakes and general baking.

The marshmallows:

Much like many sweets, marshmallows contain PORK GELATINE (eurgh). However, Marks & Spencer released their vegan marshmallows which are a godsend for everyone living Life Without Meat and they were perfect for this recipe.

How to turn the vegan rocky road into thoughtful gifts?

Rocky road is perfect for Christmas gift-giving because it lasts in the fridge for a few weeks.

You can wrap pieces of the rocky road up for small gift-giving or hampers and stocking fillers for Christmas.

With this recipe, you can make eight bags with three pieces in each, tied with a bow. The method for the gift-wrap has featured as part of my Instagram IGTV recipe series, Vegan In Lockdown: Christmas Special. You can watch the series over on Instagram – I released a new episode every week on Monday and Wednesday (6 pm BST) in the lead up to Christmas 2020.

I hope you enjoy my Christmas BISCOFF vegan rocky road! I’d love it if you could leave me some feedback and a cheeky follow on social.

If you’re already planning your vegan Christmas or need some ideas for a vegan roast dinner, then check out these recipes of mine:

• Beet Bruschetta with Sweet Zest & Peppery Infusions
• ‘MEATY’ Vegan Mushroom Wellington
• Tasty Roasted Veg: Learn How to Make Gorgeous Roasties and Maple Parsnips
• Colourful & Festive Christmas Salad Starter with Maple Tahini Dressing
• EASY 20-Minute No Pigs in Blankets

Much love, G x

EASY Christmas Vegan Rocky Road with BISCOFF

Yield: 24

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Additional Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

Learn how to make this delicious and decadent biscoff vegan rocky road and how to gift-wrap it for small homemade gift-giving.

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Ingredients

• 260g 85% dark chocolate (milk-free)
• 175g soft flora plant butter
• 4 tablespoons golden syrup
• 200g Lotus biscoff biscuits
• 150g brazil nuts (shelled)
• 150g red glace cherries (left whole or halved)
• 125g M&S vegan marshmallows
• 1 tablespoon icing sugar
• edible glitter (optional)

Instructions

1. Break up the dark chocolate and put into a heavy-based saucepan to melt with the vegan butter and golden syrup over a gentle heat.
2. Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and bash them with a rolling pin to get big-and little-sized crumbs (smash out any anxt lol). You want some pieces to crunch and some sandy rubble.
3. Put the Brazil nuts into another freezer bag and bash them so you get different-sized nut rubble. Alternatively, you can chop them up with a sharp knife.
4. Also, use a pair of kitchen scissors to snip the marshmallows in half.
5. Take the pan off the heat, and add the crushed biscuits and nuts, whole glacé cherries and vegan marshmallows. Turn carefully to coat everything with syrupy chocolate.
   Tip into a foil tray (I use one 236mm x 296mm / 9¼ x 12 inches), smoothing the top as best you can, although it will look bumpy.
6. Refrigerate until firm enough to cut, which will take about 1½–2 hours. Then take the set rocky road out of the foil tray ready to cut.
7. Sprinkle over sifted icing sugar and if you fancy, a sprinkling of edible glitter for some festive sparkle.
8. With the long side in front of you, cut into it 6 slices down and 4 across, so that you have 24 almost-squares.