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Rocky road (dessert)

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Australian-style rocky road

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.[1][2] Rocky road has also been used as a flavor of biscuits and fudge.[3][4]

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.[5] 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 recipes for the dessert.[6] The 1920s were the period that the first rocky road ice creams are claimed to have been invented.[7]

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  1. ↑ el-Waylly, Sohla (October 16, 2025). "Holiday Rocky Road". The New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  2. ↑ Tanevski, Julia (November 18, 2024). "Curtis Stone reveals the one ingredient he dislikes in rocky road, and it's VERY controversial". The Advertiser. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  3. ↑ Warin, Megan; Zivkovic, Tanya (2019). Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 132. ISBN 978-3-030-01008-9.
  4. ↑ Benning, Lee Edwards (1993) [1990]. Oh Fudge!: A Celebration of America's Favorite Candy. New York: Owl Books. p. 23. ISBN 0-8050-2546-4.
  5. ↑ Anderson, Jean (1997). The American Century Cookbook. New York: Clarkson Potter. p. 507. ISBN 0-517-70576-1.
  6. ↑ O’Connell, Jan. "1955 Rocklea Road developed by Darrell Lea". Australian Food Timeline. Thinktag Creative Services. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  7. ↑ Scinto, Maria (February 21, 2021). "The Surprising Origin Story Of Rocky Road Ice Cream". Mashed.com. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
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