Chocolate Mint Plant: What to cook with it?

I bought some chocolate mint yesterday and it smells and tastes amazing. Apart from the obvious uses, tea and flavored sugar etc., what else would you suggest? Does anyone have any good baking recipes that call for mint? Has anyone used chocolate mint, specifically, when cooking? Thanks :slight_smile:

I have never heard of this, but I’m tempted to get some, make some ice cream, and get high, and have the munchies.

I just let my chocolate mint plant die because I couldn’t find any use for it. It was fun to pick a leaf and smell it - “Mmm, smells like chocolate” - but then what? I currently have a ton of regular mint (spearmint) going to waste because I don’t have a use for it. I’ve made pesto with it but it loses most of its mintiness in the process, so I doubt chocolate mint pesto would be anthing special.

One thing I tried was sugar coated mint leaves. I seem to recall mixing egg whites and sugar, coating mint leaves and baking them until they become crispy. My memory is hazy.

My brother makes a really kick-ass fruit salad with fresh mint leaves in it. Or perhaps you could use it in a tangy fruit-based dessert like say, a pie of some sort…key lime maybe?

You like pie, right?

Somthing like this but with a chocolate graham crust? I do like pie…

My problem with recipes like this is, they don’t actually use mint except as a garnish. If you grow mint, you have a lot of it. Damn good looking pie though.

It calls for extract, but I’m wondering what the fresh equivalent would be.

If you make Thai-style spring rolls (veggies and sometimes chicken or shrimp, wrapped in rice paper) it’s traditional to add some mint to it. Chocolate mint might make a nice addition to a veggie version …

Also: mojitos are good made with flavored mints. :slight_smile:

Personally, I make a killer liqueur out of it. :wink:

I have the same problem with my chocolate mint plant, but for regular mint, I use it to make minted limeade during the summer. It’s the same idea as a mojito, but without the booze, so my kid can drink it, too. I just crush it and put it into the bottle of limeade in the fridge!

Yeah, it’s easy to make your own herbal extracts. Fill a jar with bruised herbs, top with vodka, seal, wait ~6wks. Then give it away as gifts, use for the above pie or other recipes, put in homemade soap…

Brownies! I used to go find mint chocolate to put in my brownie mix. :slight_smile:

Mint infused rum is starting to sound really good…