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13 Fresh Ways to Pair Chocolate and Mint

From peppermint bark to grasshopper ice cream cake, there's never been a better time to take your chocolate with a hit of mint.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Molly Baz
  • Two cocktails made with crme de menthe and crme de cacao.
    Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food Styling by Erika Joyce
    1/13

    Grasshopper

    Put a spring in your step with this creamy after-dinner drink, which offers all the flavor of a boozy mint-chocolate shake.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Molly Baz
    2/13

    3-Ingredient Peppermint Rocky Road Candies

    Gooey mini marshmallows, dark chocolate chips, and peppermint candies are all you need to make these Rocky Road–inspired chocolate clusters. To crush candies easily, place them in a resealable plastic bag and crush with a rolling pin, meat mallet, or the back of a large spoon.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks
    3/13

    Mint-Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

    Store-bought ice cream sandwiches are layered with chocolate-peppermint whipped cream for a towering, show-stopping dessert.

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  • Photo by Kenji Toma
    4/13

    Mint Hot Fudge Sundaes

    To make this extra minty sundae, homemade fudge sauce is swirled over scoops of bright green mint chocolate ice cream, with a topping of crushed mint chocolate chip sandwich cookies adding crunch to each bite.

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  • Chris Gentile
    5/13

    Chocolate Peppermint Stars

    A cocoa-spiked sugar cookie gets the minty treatment with a coating of melted bittersweet chocolate and a topping of crushed candy canes.

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  • Photo by Romulo Yanes
    6/13

    Peppermint Patties

    The bracing blend of a creamy peppermint filling enrobed in bittersweet tempered chocolate forms this refreshing take on peppermint patty candies.

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  • Linda Lomelino
    7/13

    Candy Cane–-Chocolate Cookies

    These truffle-like cookies dipped in crushed candy are as fun to make as they are to eat.

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  • Photo by Sidney Bensimon
    8/13

    Mint Chip Ice Cream

    This easy-to-make mint chip ice cream bucks the traditional garish green color and gets it chunky texture from a generous handful of dark chocolate chips.

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  • Photo by Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott
    11/13

    Chocolate Grasshopper Ice Cream Tart

    This frozen take on grasshopper cake features a chocolate cookie crust and mint chip ice cream studded with chopped chocolate wafers and mint chocolate candies.

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  • Photo by Sang An
    12/13

    Frozen Mint Chocolate Checkerboard

    Tiles of chocolate cake and mint ice cream alternate in this creative reimagined ice cream cake. To get the checkerboard layers even, use a cardboard milk carton as a mold.

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  • Sara Bonisteel
    13/13

    Chocolate-Mint Shamrock Shake

    An addition of chocolate amps up the iconic minty and decadent Shamrock ice cream shake. Since the chips in the ice cream get pulverized in the blender, stirring in extra gives the shake a little texture and a more chocolate-forward flavor.

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