Happy National Chocolate Mint Day! - Chocolate Mint Day celebrates anything and everything that is chocolate mint flavored. That includes mint ice cream, mint cookies, mint candies, and chocolate mint desserts such as the cupcakes you see pictured above. Not everyone likes chocolate mint but those who do really love it.
Photo above by Bev (SugarBloom Cupcakes) A perfect "after dinner" cupcake! Bev say's "My favourite dark chocolate cupcake made with Droste Dutch Cocoa, very dark and well rounded." "The Creme de Menthe gives a breezy mint taste made even more decadent if the last bite is taken with the 75% Cocoa Chocolate Pastille nestled atop the cupcake in the minty white chocolate buttercream." sugarbloomcupcakes.blogspot.com
National Chocolate Mint Month is celebrate annualy on February 19th-
What is Chocolate Mint?
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 crème 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.
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Origin of this Holiday
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day. We did find refrence that this holiday has been observed for several years and celebrated by many people-
What does this holiday celebrate?
This holiday celebrates all recipes that include chocolate and mint together.
This holiday is referred to as a "National" day, as all food holidays are- However, we did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we didn't, this is still a holiday that is publicized to celebrate. So enjoy the day and have fun with it.
We found recognition about this holiday from:
calendar sites and personal Internet sites that blog and share information about this holiday. Many of these blogs talk about the different chocolate mint recipes and the many desserts made from it.
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The mint 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.
The mint smell: Depending widely on the ingredients and the process used, mint chocolate can give off a very distinctive mint fragrance.
Mint 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.
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 centres dipped in a chocolate coating. While the resulting flavor combination is that of mint and chocolate, none of these products actually contains mint chocolate.
Mint chocolate varietie
• Lindt Mint Intense
• Andes Chocolate Mints
• Hershey's Chocolate Mint Collection - Limited Edition Miniatures
• Laura Secord French Mint
• Marshall Field's Frango Mints
• Velamints
• Aero Peppermint
• Hanover's Michigan Mints
Mint patties with chocolate
• Haviland Thin Mints
• Hershey's York Peppermint Patties
• Junior Mints
• Pearson's Chocolate Mint Patties
• After Eights
See also:
/ /Mint Chocolate Chip (ice cream) /
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