The Original Rocky Road Ice Cream | Edy's® Rocky Road (2024)

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Which came first Rocky Road or Rocky Road ice cream? ›

While most Americans are familiar with Rocky Road ice cream, many are unaware that it was originally inspired by a brownie-like dessert also called Rocky Road.

The Original Rocky Road Ice Cream | Dreyer's® Rocky Road.

Ingredients. Skim Milk, Cream, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Miniature Marshmallows, Roasted Almonds, Whey, Guar Gum, Carob Bean Gum.

Rocky road is chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and nuts. The ice cream variety was invented in 1929 by William Dreyer, who was inspired by Joseph Edy's nut- and marshmallow-filled chocolate bars.

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Dreyer and Edy gave the flavor its current name "to give folks something to smile about in the midst of the Great Depression." Alternatively, Fentons Creamery in Oakland claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a Rocky Road-style ice cream flavor invented by his friend, ...

“George Farren, candymaker at Fentons Creamery, was making a Rocky Road candy bar at Fentons and decided to blend it into an ice cream flavor. At the time, he was good friends with William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, who had an ice cream shop on Grand Avenue in Oakland.

Call it the final scoop in the great ice cream meltdown. Nestlé agreed to sell its U.S. ice cream operations for $4 billion. The deal includes Häagen-Dazs, Edy's and Drumstick cones.

Deliciously gooey marshmallow swirled through rich chocolate Breyers® and real, crunchy almonds. Breyers® Rocky Road is the fastest road to fun! Love Breyers® chocolate ice cream? Well this dessert, made with rich cocoa will be sure to be your new favorite.

Milk, cream, skim milk, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, almonds (almonds, canola oil, salt), marshmallows [corn syrup, sugar, modified food starch (corn), water, gelatin, tetrasodium pyrophosphate (improves whipping)], cocoa (processed with alkali), cellulose gum, vegetable gums (guar, carrageenan, carob bean), salt.

Cream, Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Marshmallows (Corn Syrup, Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Gelatin), Roasted Almonds (Almonds, Safflower and/or Canola Oil), Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Whey, Stabilizer/Emulsifier Blend (Cellulose Gum, Mono and Diglycerides, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Polysorbate 80).

What is the difference between Rocky Road and Heavenly Hash ice cream? ›

Basically, both are chocolate ice cream with marshmallow and almonds. The difference seems to be 1) Heavenly Hash also includes some type of chocolate add-in, and 2) Rocky Road is chunkier: whole nuts, whole globs of marshmallow, where Heavenly Hash is more diced nuts and a marshmallow swirl and chocolate flecks.

Much like Coca-Cola, the official recipe for blue moon ice cream is shrouded in secrecy. But homemade recipes for blue moon ice cream (such as this one from Serious Eats) call for raspberry and lemon flavorings along with vanilla pudding mix, egg yolks, sugar, heavy cream, vanilla extract, and blue food coloring.

Across an ocean and some 70 years later, the name appeared again, but this time in a more refreshing form. In 1929, William Dreyer used his wife's scissors to cut up marshmallows and walnuts, which he then mixed into his chocolate ice cream.

Rocky Road ice cream, however, was invented by William Dreyer in Oakland, in 1929. He created an ice cream that included the same ingredients as the original dessert as a means to lift the spirits of those affected by the Wall Street crash that launched into the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The origins of Rocky Road

One theory suggests that Rocky Road emerged in Australia around 1853 as a clever way to salvage spoiled ingredients imported from the UK. These past-their-prime ingredients were allegedly mixed with chocolate and nuts to mask their off-flavours.

The history of the Rocky Road candy bar goes back to 1950. It was in this year that Russian immigrant Sam Altshuler started the Annabelle Candy Company in San Francisco, California.