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Encyclopedia > Mint chocolate

Mint chocolate, also known as Chocolate mint, is a popular variety of flavored chocolate. It is created when mint flavoring, such as peppermint, spearmint, or creme de menthe, is added to plain chocolate. Chocolate mint also refers to an herb, specifically a hybrid mint plant, that tastes and especially smells like a combination of mint and chocolate. For other uses, see Mint (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Mentha × piperita L. Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a (usually) sterile hybrid mint, a cross between watermint (Mentha aquatica) and spearmint (Mentha spicata). ... Binomial name Mentha spicata Crantz Spearmint (Mentha spicata, syn ) is a species of mint native to central and southern Europe, where it grows in wet soils. ... Creme de menthe is a sweet spearmint-flavored liqueur. ... For other uses, see Chocolate (disambiguation). ...

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The flavor

The chocolate component can be milk chocolate, regular dark chocolate, or white chocolate; due to this, mint chocolate has no one specific flavor and so, each chocolate-plus-flavor combination can be unique. Chocolate block in melted chocolate Chocolate is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets—one of the most popular in the world. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


The smell

Depending widely on the ingredients and the process used, mint chocolate can give off a very distinctive mint fragrance.


Uses

Mint chocolate can be found in a wide variety of edible products, such as candy, mints, cookies, ice cream (see Mint Chocolate Chip), the beverage hot chocolate, and others. In addition it is marketed (non-edible) as a beauty/bath product. For other uses, see Candy (disambiguation). ... Mints are usually hard or brittle candy, characterized by the presence of mint flavoring, whether it be peppermint oil, spearmint oil, or an artificial substitute. ... This page is about edible cookies. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Mint Chocolate Chip is an ice cream flavor composed of mint ice cream, usually green, but sometimes white in the natural flavors, and small chips of chocolate. ... <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here <gallery> Insert non-formatted text here </gallery></nowiki>:For the beverage, see Hot chocolate. ...


Mint chocolate can be marketed under many different names and descriptions, some of which can be technically misleading. For example, Haviland Thin Mints and Hershey's York Peppermint Patties are actually mint patties - peppermint-flavored centers dipped in a chocolate coating. While the resulting flavor combination is that of mint+chocolate, none of these products actually contains mint chocolate. Haviland Thin Mints are a mint chocolate candy produced by the Haviland division of NECCO. The candy is a mint filling covered in dark chocolate, similar to (but smaller and thinner than) the York Peppermint Pattie. ... The Hershey Foods Corporation ( NYSE: HSY) is the worlds largest chocolate company. ... This article is about the mint-and-chocolate confection. ... Binomial name Mentha × piperita L. Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a (usually) sterile hybrid mint, a cross between watermint (Mentha aquatica) and spearmint (Mentha spicata). ...


Varieties

Mint chocolate

Andes Chocolate Mints, produced by Tootsie Roll Industries, are small rectangular candies consisting of one mint-green layer sandwiched in between two chocolate-brown layers. ... The Hershey Foods Corporation ( NYSE: HSY) is the worlds largest chocolate company. ... The Hershey Foods Corporation ( NYSE: HSY) is the worlds largest chocolate company. ... Marshall Field (1834 -1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago based chain of department stores. ... Frango and Frangos are brand names of chocolate meltaway truffles sold by department stores in the Pacific Northwest and Chicagoland areas of the United States. ...

Mint patties with chocolate

Haviland Thin Mints are a mint chocolate candy produced by the Haviland division of NECCO. The candy is a mint filling covered in dark chocolate, similar to (but smaller and thinner than) the York Peppermint Pattie. ... The Hershey Foods Corporation ( NYSE: HSY) is the worlds largest chocolate company. ... This article is about the mint-and-chocolate confection. ... A box of Junior Mints. ... After Eight is a confectionery product described as mint enrobed in dark chocolate (although a milk chocolate version became available in 2006) and are intended, as the name suggests, to be used as after-dinner mints. ...

Trivia

According to the National Confectioners Association website www.candyusa.org, February 19th is Chocolate Mint Day. [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...


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Chocolate Mint (Mentha piperita cv.) neither smells nor tastes like chocolate, but rather it is reminiscent of an Andes after-dinner chocolate Mint.
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