ROCKY ROAD CAKE

Our baking expert and recipe developer Liberty Mendez shares a cake that's handy for using up leftover biscuits and chocolate

- LIBERTY MENDEZ

Chocolate rocky road cake

The joy of this recipe is that you can adapt it depending on what you have in the cupboard or biscuit tin. The combination of crunchy sweet-and-salty rocky road with moist, rich chocolate sponge ticks boxes for flavour and texture.

SERVES 10-12 PREP 25 mins plus at least 2 hrs setting COOK 1 hr 5 mins EASY

125g salted butter, softened, plus extra for the tin

100ml vegetable oil

125g Greek yogurt

100ml milk

2 tbsp coffee granules, dissolved in 100ml boiling water and cooled (this enhances the chocolate flavour)

2 large eggs

225g light brown soft sugar

200g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

50g cocoa powder

For the rocky road layer