The Sweet Swap 2014: Snap, crackle & pop rocky road

What is the sweet swap,

It is to give and receive,

What if mine was a flop,

Thank goodness I did achieve!

So, earlier in August I saw the registrations open for The Sweet Swap 2014 (organized by Sara at Belly Rumbles and Amanda at ChewTown) and was debating whether I should sign up or not. I mean, my cooking skills are so limited and there was strictly no baking brownies or cookies!

But come on, we are all about bettering ourselves with challenges right? What use was it to sit around and think about it and want to do it, yet it just stops there? #YOLO I signed up.

So after much thought after signing up along with what the hell did I just do?! I decided to make a rocky road!

Reality really hit when I received my email with my three daredevils, their lives were in my amateur hands! My matches were Katherine from A cupcake or two, Alex from Eating Adelaide and Danielle from Eat my street.

After reading to see if I could pursue my rocky road decision to suit dietary requirements, I wanted to do something more that could make it a little different…

So, I introduce to you all the …

[Snap, crackle & pop rocky road!]

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Prep Time: 20 minutes

Refrigerate: 2 hours

Ingredients:

Chocolate crackle base:

2 cups kellogg’s rice bubbles

½ cup icing sugar

½ cup desiccated coconut

125g copha

2 tbsp cocoa (I used milo, thus the not so dark crackle)

Rocky Road:

440g dark chocolate (2 x block is good too)

50g unsalted butter

100g marshmallows (cut small)

100g cashews

1 cup kellogg’s rice bubbles

Method:
[snap crackle & pop base]

1. Line lamington tin with glad wrap

2. Slowly melt copha in a saucepan, once melted, allow to cool

3. In a large bowl, combine all your dry ingredients (rice bubbles, icing sugar, desiccated coconut, cocoa)

4. Add melted copha to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly

5. Spread into lamington tin until smooth

6. Refrigerate until firm (but by the time you complete rocky road, it should already have set).

[rocky  road]

1. Melt dark chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan (or if you prefer you can microwave)

2. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl (marshmallows, cashews, rice bubbles)

3. Add melted chocolate and butter mixture to dry ingredients and mix until everything is covered in chocolate goodness

4. Check if your crackle base is firm, if so add rocky road mixture on top and smooth out until evenly spread on top of crackle base

5. Refrigerate approximately 2 hours or until set

6. Cut up and serve!

… and what’s awesome is, I get three goodies in return! Thanks for my goodies girls!

I got these beautiful mint slices from Deepa from One small pot.

Then these super loose, melt in your mouth pandan cookies from Felicia from Next Stop: Food

And then these delicious raw choco-coconut squares from Ema at On the flavor road.

I can’t wait for signing up again next year, the most exciting part is seeing parcels waiting for you.

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AAANNNDDD if you noticed, I finally have my new look up!! Thanks to cousin Miss MC for the banner design and social buttons. AND thanks to cousin Mrs MLC for the lovely font. 
There could still be little changes throughout, however these may or may not be noticed, but hope you all like what you see!! :D