Häagen-Dazs · Desserts
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The base is white chocolate, not mint, which is the opposite of what the name suggests. All the peppermint is in the inclusions. That's the right way round for the confection it's named after. Peppermint bark is white chocolate poured over dark and scattered with crushed candy cane, so a white chocolate base is faithful to it instead of being a substitution. The candy pieces are the technical problem. Hard sugar in a frozen dairy base slowly dissolves at the edges, so pieces round off and lose their bite over the weeks a tub sits in a freezer, which is why the candy has to be set into something rather than scattered loose. Peppermint also runs higher in menthol than garden mint, so it reads sharper and colder, and against a base with no cocoa solids to push back it does most of the work.
