Rocky road (ice cream)

Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream.[1] Though there are variations from the original flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and whole or diced marshmallows. According to one source, the flavor was created in March 1929 by William Dreyer in Oakland, California when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife's sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected how his partner Joseph Edy's chocolate candy creation incorporated walnuts and marshmallow pieces.[2] Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond. 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. "[2] Alternatively, Fentons Creamery in Oakland claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a Rocky Road-style ice cream flavor invented by his friend, Fentons' George Farren, who blended his own Rocky Road-style candy bar into ice cream; however, Dreyer substituted almonds for walnuts.[3]

Rocky road
Three scoops of rocky road ice cream, with a chocolate cookie
TypeIce cream
Place of originUnited States
Region or stateOakland, California
Main ingredientschocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallow

The original Rocky Road ice cream used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces.[4] By blending numerous ingredients such as chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallows, the rocky road flavor was one of the first types to mix in the materials together. This was only made possible by the revolutionary powers of refrigeration. This style was developed by Dreyer's lead chemical engineer and dairy chef Noah Holladay and proved difficult to produce due to the nature of freezing and preserving various mixed ingredients. Over the years after the inception on the flavor, many companies would try to imitate or mix in other ingredients such as various nuts, fruits, and toppings, but the original combination proved to be the most popular.[5]

See also

References
  1. Sugar Cookie. "Rocky Road Ice Cream". All Recipe. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  2. "Dreyer's History" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 12, 2006. Retrieved April 5, 2006.
  3. "Fentons Blender Club: Rocky Road Ice Cream". Archived from the original on April 30, 2006. Retrieved April 5, 2006.
  4. Liddell, Caroline; Weir, Robin (1996). Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 77. ISBN 0-312-14343-5.
  5. Greenberg, Alissa (September 1, 2018). "Who invented rocky road ice cream? It's complicated". Quartz. Retrieved August 16, 2020.


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