Rocky Road Sheet Cake
This Rocky Road Sheetcake is going to take your sheet cake game to a whole new level. Deliciously moist sheet cake cooked to perfection and topped with an ooey gooey mixture of marshmallows chocolate and cashews. You wont want a regular sheet cake again! If you are like me and you LOVE sheet cake make sure to check out my best ever chocolate cake and my texas turtle sheet cake recipes!
Rocky Road Sheet Cake
Traditional Rocky Road ice cream is one of my favorites. I love to pair it with a fresh from the oven chocolate cake so this combination just makes perfect sense! Rocky Road ice cream was invented during the great depression when the most common flavors were vanilla and chocolate. The folks that made it named it rocky road to give people something to smile about in the face of some pretty uncertain times. Its amazing to me that ice cream of any kind could have such an impact. It probably helps that Chocolate Ice Cream with nuts and chocolate chunks and marshmallows pair pretty nicely together.
To make this recipe you start with a traditional sheet cake base my all time favorite best ever chocolate cake recipe is the base for this delicious rocky road sheet cake. Here is what you will need.
Chocolate Cake
brown sugarbrewed coffeecocoa powderbuttervanillaflourbaking powderbaking sodasalted buttersugareggs
Rocky Road Topping
buttercocoa powderbuttermilkpowdered sugarvanillamarshmallowscashews
How to Make Rocky Road Sheet Cake
This cake is prepared in three steps. The first two are completely dedicated to the sheet cake and the last step focuses primarily on the rocky road topping.
Place all of the following into a saucepan over low heat.
brown sugarbrewed coffee strongcocoa powderbuttervanilla
Stir until they are fully incorporated this will likely take between 57 minutes. Remove the saucepan from heat and allow to cool a bit. It should be a little thick and similar to custard.
Chocolate Cake Part 2
In a medium bowl sift flour baking soda and baking powder together. Add the butter sugars eggs cooled coffee and vanilla to the flour mixture and mix with a handheld mixer until fully combined. Add the chocolate mixture from Part 1 to the ingredients from Part 2. Stir by hand until all ingredients are well combined. Pour the mixture onto a prepared sprayed or lined with parchment baking sheet I used a 10x15in baking sheet. Smooth out the batter and gently tap on the
