These Rocky Road bars were sadly lacking in similar ways. The Marks and Spencers bar, available from most food stores, had good marshmallow, biscuit and cherry (yipee) content but fell short on the chocolate. My family helped with the tasting, very kind of them, and they all complained that there was too much cocoa as opposed to chocolate. They didn't like the flaky consistency of the bar and felt it needed to be firmer. There was a powdery mouth feel!
The traybake from the John Paul Jones Bakery was a disappointment. This bakery is one of my favourites and when I'm working at the bookshop in the town (Solway Books), I always go home laden with loaves, pies and cakes. They are one of the few bakeries in Dumfries and Galloway to still make eccles cakes, and they're fab. They have a wonderful range of traybakes and I could recommend most of them but sadly the Rocky Road lacked chocolate content. The composition of the bar was good, nice crispy biscuit and small marshmallows, but the chocolate tasted like chocolate flavour rather than the real stuff.
Have to confess that I had a ginger tiffin traybake at Reading Lasses this week and because of their use of Montezuma chocolate, their traybakes really are outstanding.
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