Dark Chocolate Mint Baking Chips/Chunks
 

I have a friend who loves dark chocolate and mint. I would like to
make her some cookies using (if such a thing exists commercially) dark
chocolate mint chips (or chunks).
Does anyone know of any sources?

Thanks1

I pretty much limit myself to what I can find at the generic grocery
stores in the area, and I haven't seen dark chocolate mint chips.
Since you mention chunks as an option, you can make your own
by melting dark chocolate and stirring in mint. You might want to
add a little shortening to make the final product softer. Be careful
that you don't get any water in the chocolate when you melt it,
and don't let it get much warmer than what is necessary to melt it.

I have a friend at work who chops chocolate bars up with a knife
and makes wonderful cookies from them.

Good luck!

Michael

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> I have a friend who loves dark chocolate and mint. I would like to
> make her some cookies using (if such a thing exists commercially) dark
> chocolate mint chips (or chunks).
> Does anyone know of any sources?
>

If you can get Peppermint Crisp bars, they can be chopped up and used like
choc-mint chips.

http://australian-food.com/chocolate...mintcrisp.html

K
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>I have a friend who loves dark chocolate and mint. I would like to
> make her some cookies using (if such a thing exists commercially) dark
> chocolate mint chips (or chunks).
> Does anyone know of any sources?
>
> Thanks1
>

My ex-wife made some by melting and forming "After Eight" mint chocolates.
They were pretty good, for an ex-wife sort of thing.

Scott.

wrote:
> I have a friend who loves dark chocolate and mint. I would like to
> make her some cookies using (if such a thing exists commercially)
dark
> chocolate mint chips (or chunks).
> Does anyone know of any sources?
>
> Thanks1

I have found mint (dark) chocolate chips (Hershey brand, mostly, but
sometimes Nestle) at Cub Foods and my local supermarket, but usually
just at Christmas. I melt them down, drop them into little discs, let
them get hard, and use them like discs in sandwich cookies I make.

N.