This one’s for the licorice lovers – it’s all sorts of yum!
This no bake slice is basically choc full of licorice – ha, see what I did there?! Packed with allsorts, licorice chunks, crunchy biscuits and squidgy mallows this is so easy to make and makes a great gift… If you can bear to part with it that is!
I have so many varieties of rocky road in my rocky road recipe collection, I don’t know how I’ve not made a slice for the licorice lovers before. I know licorice is a very divisive ingredient but I absolutely love it. I saw a recipe for Licorice Rocky Road in my friend’s Licorice cookbook and it was just the inspiration I needed.
Can I backtrack for a minute and tell you about my Uncle Harry? He was a man who when he loved something, he loved it a lot. I know this because he loved me… So much. I got my love of (and when I say love, I mean borderline obsession) football from him, I think I also inherited his love of licorice although not his love for Neil Diamond. Fun fact: he was on the front row at Wembley every night Neil Diamond was in town.
My point, apart from how awesome my uncle was is how food can really remind you of your favourite people. Sadly we lost my uncle when he was just 50 but to this day, I still think of him every time I eat licorice allsorts. He would have loved this rocky road.
I like to use shortbread biscuits because they’re rich, buttery and shout Christmas to me but you can mix things up by using amaretti, ginger or digestive biscuits instead. Personally, I find using all dark chocolate a bit too intense so I like to use half dark and half milk chocolate but you do you, Boo! As long as you use 400g of chocolate in total you’re all good!
Are you a licorice lover? Do you associate certain foods with special people?
Ingredients
200g shortbread biscuits, broken into chunks
100g mini marshmallows
100g licorice bites, cut in half
1 x 165g pack licorice allsorts, cut in half
200g milk chocolate
200g plain chocolate
25g coconut oil
icing sugar, for dusting
How to – Traditional
- Lightly grease a slice pan. Line the base and long sides with baking paper, extending the paper over the sides.
- Combine biscuits, marshmallow, licorice and allsorts in a large bowl and set aside.
- Melt the chocolate and coconut oil in the microwave in 30 second bursts until completely melted.
- Add the chocolate to the licorice mixture making sure everything is well covered in chocolate.
- Spread mixture into the pan, smooth surface and put in the fridge for 2 hours or until firm.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into squares.
How to – Thermomix
- Lightly grease a slice pan. Line the base and long sides with baking paper, extending the paper over the sides.
- Combine biscuits, marshmallow, licorice and allsorts in a large bowl and set aside.
- Place chocolate and coconut oil in TM bowl and blitz for 10 seconds on speed 9.
- Scrape down and melt 5 minutes at 50 degrees on speed 1.
- Scrape down and melt for a further 2 minutes at 50 degrees on speed 1.
- With blades moving on reverse speed 1, gradually add the lollies through the hole in the lid until they are all coated in chocolate this should take about 45 seconds.
- Spread mixture into the pan, smooth surface and put in the fridge for 2 hours or until firm.
- Before you clean the bowl, make a chocolate drink by adding a cup of milk and blitzing 5 seconds on speed 8. Then heat milk for 5 minutes at 80 degrees on speed 4.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into squares.
