Rocky road (dessert)

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Rocky road is a confection where melted chocolate binds together nuts, marshmallows, and dried fruit—with gummy candies often making an appearance in the Australian version. It sets into a studded, textured candy that's become most embedded in Australian culture, particularly around Christmas, though it found different expressions across the Atlantic: ice cream in America, biscuits and fudge elsewhere. The dessert emerged in the 1920s, appearing first in California before spreading through newspaper recipes and cookbooks.

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Rocky road is a candy, made up of various ingredients—typically including nuts, marshmallows, and dried fruit—that are combined with melted chocolate and left to set. In Australia, gummy candies often feature. The confectionary is most common in Australia where it is associated with Christmas, and in Britain. In America, rocky road is most popular as an ice cream flavor. Rocky road has also been used as a flavor of biscuits and fudge. The earliest recipe for rocky road found by the cookbook author Jean Anderson came in Young America’s Cookbook, a 1938 publication of the New York Herald Tribune, though she identifies a potential precursor in a recipe for "Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge" in the 1923 edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. The food blog Australian Food Timeline traces the earliest mentions of rocky road to around this time in America, with the earliest being a 1920 reference to "Rocky Road Creams" in Santa Cruz, California. Several newspapers soon followed with recip

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