Choc Mint

What is it?

Mint and chocolate is the most common pairing in the freezer, so the interest is in what a given version does beyond the obvious. Here it's the candy: chocolate-coated mint pieces over the top rather than the usual choc chips. That changes the texture. A chocolate chip stays waxy and hard at freezer temperature, where a coated candy piece has a brittle shell that cracks and a harder centre behind it, so the bite happens in two stages rather than one. Chocolate sauce goes over the mint ice cream underneath, and the cone finishes with the standard chocolate tip. The mint is a smooth, rounded flavour rather than a sharp peppermint, which is what keeps the whole thing from reading as toothpaste.