Rocky Road Cookies
Rocky road cookies are American chocolate cookies, that include chocolate chips, almonds and marshmallows, and they’re super easy to make. During the development of this recipe, I wanted my cookies to have a lot of marshmallows in them. To my disappointment, the marshmallows melting during baking made the cookies expand too excessively. I then decided just to use the marshmallows as decoration, so the cookies would maintain their round and beautiful shape. They are super delicious, so get ready to double the recipe.
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Rocky Road Cookies:
Equipment: No special equipment is needed.
Recipe: 6 Giant Cookies
Cookies Dough:
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Softened Unsalted Butter (Room Temperature) | 62g |
Light Brown Sugar | 100g |
Salt | 1/4 tsp |
Eggs | 25g (Half one medium sized egg) |
All Purpose Flour | 90g |
Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder | 16g |
Cinnamon | 1/8 tsp |
Espresso Powder | 1/4 tsp |
Baking Soda | 1/8 tsp |
Baking Powder | 1/2 tsp |
Inclusions:
Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
Sliced Almonds | 30g |
Dark Chocolate Chips | 45g |
Milk Chocolate Chips | 15g |
Mini Marshmallows | 15g |
Preparation instructions:
- Preheat your oven to 165C, fan mode off, placing a baking rack at the middle shelf of the oven.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, using an electric handheld mixer, beat the butter, sugar and salt on medium speed, until fluffy and creamy, for about 2-3 minutes.
- Add the eggs and beat for 2 more minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally with a spatula to ensure even mixing.
- Sift the dry ingredients over the butter mixture: flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, espresso powder, baking soda and baking powder. In cutting motions, incorporate into the batter using a spatula until about 70% combined.
- Add the inclusions: chocolates, almonds and marshmallows (NOTE: marshmallows will melt once baked in the oven which will make the cookies spread excessively. Therefore, I suggest to top the cookies with the marshmallows instead. What you see in the video is my failed attempt to add in plenty of marshmallows into the dough).
- Scoop the dough into a baking sheet lined with parchment paper- you can use an ice cream scoop or two large tablespoons. Each cookie is around 50g each. Space them evenly as they spread in the oven.
- Bake for 11 minutes. Allow to cool down at least 20 minutes before serving.