Rocky Road ( ice cream ) - Wikipedia Rocky Road ( ice cream ) Rocky road Three scoops of rocky road ice cream, with a chocolate cookie Type Ice cream Place of origin United States Region or state Oakland, California Main ingredients chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallow Cookbook : Rocky road Media : Rocky road Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream. 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. 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. '' 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. The original Rocky Road ice cream used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces. See also Food portal List of ice cream flavors Rocky road ( dessert ) `` I Love Rocky Road '' References Jump up ^ Sugar Cookie. `` Rocky Road Ice Cream ''. All Recipe. Retrieved 2014 - 03 - 25. ^ Jump up to : `` Dreyer 's History ''. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on March 12, 2006. Retrieved 2006 - 04 - 05. Jump up ^ `` Fentons Blender Club : Rocky Road Ice Cream ''. Archived from the original on 2006 - 04 - 30. Retrieved 2006 - 04 - 05. Jump up ^ 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. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rocky road ( dessert ). Recipe Ice cream Flavors Bacon Beer Biscuit Tortoni Blue moon Butter Brickle Butter pecan Cherry Chocolate Chocolate chip cookie dough Cookies and cream Cornish Crab Garlic Grape Green tea Halva Hokey pokey Mango Mint chocolate chip Neapolitan Oyster Pistachio Raspberry Ripple Rocky road Spumoni Stracciatella Strawberry Superman Tiger tail Tutti frutti Vanilla Forms Bar Bastani Booza Cake Cone Dondurma Float Freeze - dried Fried Frozen custard Gelato Kulfi Sandwich Soft serve Sorbetes Stir - fried Dishes Affogato Arctic roll Baked Alaska Banana split Bananas Foster Bombe glacée Café liégeois Cherries jubilee Choc ice Choc - top Coffee cabinet Creme de papaya Dame blanche Milkshake Mix - in Mochi ice cream Parfait Peach Melba Poire belle Hélène Sizzling brownie Spaghettieis Sundae Bacon Golden Opulence Knickerbocker glory Tin roof pie Zuccotto Events Glasgow Ice Cream Wars Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Ice cream social National Ice Cream Month Lists Brands Flavors Parlor chains Related Carlo Gatti Gelato University Geography of ice cream Ice cream cart Ice cream maker Ice cream parlor Ice cream van Penny lick Squround This dessert - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rocky_road_(ice_cream)&oldid=849962648 '' Categories : Almonds California culture Flavors of ice cream Dessert stubs Talk About Wikipedia Español 한국어 Svenska 粵語 Edit links This page was last edited on 12 July 2018, at 16 : 27 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: what event inspired the name of rocky road ice cream
Answer: Great Depression