These Levain Bakery Rocky Road Cookies are rich, thick, soft, chewy chocolate cookies with semi-sweet chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, and cashews. The best Levain Bakery Copycat Rocky Road Cookie Recipe!
If you have followed Modern Honey for a while now, you know that the very first recipe I shared in 2015 was my Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie Recipe. It was one that I perfected and recipe tested for months and months to get it just right.
Years ago, I was in New York City to film a show in Food Network Studios after I won the Perfect Cookie Contest. As I was getting my makeup done, I was asking all of the producers and makeup and hair people, where the best places were to eat in New York City.
They told me hands down the best place to buy a chocolate chip cookie in the city is Levain Bakery. They told me how unique this chocolate chip cookie was and I literally couldn’t wait to try it! The next morning, we made the trek to the Upper East Side and found chocolate chip cookie heaven.
Of course, being a cookie connoisseur and a self-proclaimed baking nerd, I set out to figure out how they make their cookies. I am a researcher by nature and I went to my kitchen and went to work! I tweaked it again and again and even played with the oven heat by a couple of degrees. You wouldn’t believe how many cookies I baked in a quest to perfect them at home.
I was so excited to create my knock-off version of the OG Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. I am grateful that it has always been in the TOP 10 of my Most Popular Recipes on Modern Honey. The next time I was in New York City in 2013 for a baking competition, I tried all of their cookies and decided to replicate all of them. You can find all of my Levain Bakery copycat recipes below.
I received word that Levain Bakery has come out with a brand new cookie — the ROCKY ROAD COOKIE. You better believe I was going to try it and create a recipe for all of you! It is straight up cookie perfection and after I had a bunch of recipe testers over to try the cookies, my son-in-law, Conner, declared it the best cookie he has ever tried in his entire life. It is now my husband’s number one most requested and most loved cookie recipe.
These are THE BEST ROCKY ROAD CHOCOLATE CHIP MARSHMALLOW COOKIES!
Everyone went crazy for these Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies and I literally couldn’t wait to share the recipe with you! So…what ingredients are in these Rocky Road Cookies?
Rocky Road Cookie Ingredients:
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- Cake Flour
- All-Purpose Flour
- Cornstarch
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Marshmallows
- Cashews (or Almonds)
Most Rocky Road recipes call for chocolate, marshmallows, and almonds. I love that Levain Bakery made these Rocky Road Cookies with Cashews instead.
Tips for making Levain Bakery Rocky Road Cookies:
Popular Levain Bakery Cookie Recipes:
LEVAIN BAKERY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
LEVAIN BAKERY DARK CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
LEVAIN BAKERY CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CHIP COOKIES
LEVAIN BAKERY OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES
Cookie Baking Tools:
Pin this now to find it later
Pin ItPreheat oven to 410 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar and mix for at least 4 minutes, or until light and creamy.
Add eggs and vanilla and mix for 1 minute longer.
Fold in cocoa powder, cake flour, all-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. Add chocolate chips, marshmallows, and cashews.
Roll into 5 to 6-ounce large balls. Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet. I suggest using a light-colored baking sheet.
To make them look extra gourmet...place a few chocolate chips and marshmallows on the tops of the cookies and lightly press into the top.
Bake for 9-11 minutes. When you remove the cookies from the oven, one tip is that the marshmallows have a tendency to melt if the marshmallows are on the edge of the cookie dough. When you remove the cookies from the oven, you will need to take a small brownie spatula to press the edges towards the center of the cookie. This helps to shape the rocky road cookie as it cools.
Let the cookies rest for 15 minutes to allow them time to set-up before removing from the baking sheet.
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7rrvDnqmnoJ%2Bjsrp6wqikaKSVq66quoybmKSdoq56s7vCpLBmqp%2BWsW6vzqiiop2jZA%3D%3D