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Rocky Road Cake

To celebrate Father's Day and my Mom's birthday I wanted to do something different.  I came across this recipe on Pinterest.  Over the top fun!


To start off, I bake three 6" layers of chocolate cake as per the recipe.  Followed by the Nutella flavoured icing and then the ganache.  I added the toasted walnuts (they really do tasted amazing and completely different toasted!) and marshmallows into most of the ganache.  I save some ganache for dripping down the sides.  


 To assemble the cake I piped the icing around the top of the first two layers to form a dam.  Then added the ganache mix and stacked the layers.  After it set for a while in the fridge I covered the cake in the icing as smooth as I could get it.


Finally topping the cake with the plain ganache and allowing it to drip down the sides.  To finish off the cake I piled the rest of the ganache mixed on top and then added more marshmallows and toast walnuts.


I had to take a picture of what it looks like when you cut into it.  Yummy!  I'd definitely make this one again.
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