<<faints with shock to see squiggle>>

I like the idea of maltesers (and all that other stuff [hog]), but suspect they are off the menu - dsis and both her dc's are coeliacs. It is a challenge finding treats for them - dsis is a marvel.

would LOVE to hear about the party/cake, it sounds awesome. are there pix? (gtg, dd waking up, back later)

<<runs in to poke PhD - long time no see>>

Due to DH and (to a lesser extent) DS's aversion to all forms of dried fruit, I made rocky road loosely according to the hummingbird bakery recipe - it has marshmallows, chopped up mars bars (or twix, or snickers (clearly not) or any strange Aussie equivalent of your choosing), and maltesers. Recipe also suggests cornflakes and I did think of adding rice krispies instead, but left them out because I was already doing 2 sorts of krispie cake.

The maltesers are the key. How do they stand on the nut-allergy front?

I must bore you with accounts of DS's party/cake some time - dry ice was involved (in both)

yeah I know Stirling, there's only one kind of chocolate she can have.

There's a reasonably nice chocolate GF biscuit on the market, thought I'd try those.

I use biscuits too but I prefer digestives.

I only put rich tea biscuits, marshmallows and sometimes sultanas in.

If your neice is nut allergic then double check the chocolate that you use. Some have traces of nut. My dd2 is allergic and even reacts if there is rapeseed oil in the chocolate!

oh good, I'd thought crushed biccies too!

it's not much of a 'recipe' though is it? <<worried trying-to-remember face>> just, 'mix it all up, um, let it set' kind of thing?

sockmonkey, you forgot cherries are a fruit, so that's 3 of your 5 a day, that's positively saintly

I use Nigella's recipe. No nuts/coconut in that just marshmallows and crushed rich tea biscuits. Mmmmm Rockyroad.

Perdu - chocolate is one of your five a day - it is made from cocoa beans = beans therefore a veg
sugar from sugarbeat or cane - also a veg
Milk = dairy.
Chocolate is very healthy

I used a Sainsburys recipe which put pink wafer biscuits in plus crushed digestives and marshmallows.

My daughter has asked if they are "all badness" and I have to agree they are a bit special and probably not one of your five a day

I don't put peanuts in, I use crushed rich tea instead, and never put dessicated coconut in as I hate it
Be very careful making rocky road though, and always make twice as much as you need....it's very moreish...