Mint and Chocolate

After the chocolate and peanut butter combination, mint and chocolate is my next favorite chocolate combination. They just go together so well. And there are so many foods out there that are mint and chocolate (mainly candy)! There are Andes mints, crème de menthe Hershey’s Bliss chocolates, mint chocolate chip ice cream, mint M&M’s. The list goes on and on.

I just recently tried the crème de menthe Hershey’s Bliss chocolates. They are amazing. The chocolate is soo smooth and the mint is perfect! They are soo much better than Andes mints which were my original favorites. Compared to the Hershey’s Bliss, the Andes mints taste like cheap chocolate (I would still eat them though).

I also just recently tried the mint M&M’s. At first I thought they were a little disappointing. I wasn’t expecting them to be so crunchy. After eating a couple though, I decided that I liked them and I actually couldn’t stop eating them!

One mint/chocolate candy combination that I’m not so fond of is York Peppermint Patties. They’re ok, but they’re definitely not my first choice. In other words, I wouldn’t turn one down if someone just handed it to me (unless it was given to me by a suspicious character). (The mint M&M’s actually kind of reminded me of a crunchy York Peppermint Patty at first.) And then there is the mint Three Musketeers. I like them better than York Peppermint Patties (and regular Three Musketeers), but they wouldn’t be something I would choose if I wanted to buy a candy bar somewhere.

At the dining courts on campus, they sometimes have mint brownies and mint cookies. The brownies are chocolate brownies with green mint icing. They are pretty good. The brownie is fairly moist and the icing has the perfect amount of mint flavoring. The cookies however aren’t so good. They look like the Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies (which I LOVE!), but they’re not. They are dry and the mint flavor isn’t very strong.

If anyone has any delicious mint and chocolate recipes, send them my way!

Word of the Day: bliss