Rocky Road

100g Dark Chocolate (70% Cocoa Minimum)

100g Butter

5tbsp Golden Syrup

325g Mixture of Dried Fruits, Bashed up Biscuit, Marshmallows, Nuts, Malteasers, Glace Cherries. Mix to your own taste if you love nuts but hate dried fruits leave them out etc.

Melt the chocolate, butter and syrup in a bowl over a pan of hot water. In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients together. Pour in the melted chocolate mixture and combine. Pour into a dish pat down and place in the fridge to set for a couple hours.

To serve cut into pieces and dust with some cocoa powder or try drizzling some melted chocolate over the top.  

Florentines

Makes 18-24

Ingredients

50g Butter

50g Golden Caster Sugar

2tsp Runny Honey

50g Plain Flour

50g Candied Peel

50g Dried Cranberries

30g Light Toasted Almond Flakes

100g Chocolate (of your preference)

Firstly turn your oven to 160oC. In a saucepan melt butter, sugar and honey then set aside to cool a little. Mix the rest of the ingredients (apart from the chocolate) add the butter mixture and mix. Put teaspoons of the mixture on a flat tray and flatten slightly with the back of your spoon. Bake for 7-8mins until light gold in colour.

Let the Florentines cool then melt the chocolate and drizzle over the top or spread chocolate over the backs and let cool. Enjoy :-)