Michelle Darmody: My best chocolate mint recipes, perfect for people who love After Eights

Nanaimo Bars - Custard on a Cocunut Chocolate Crumb

Dark chocolate works well with mint, milk chocolate not so much. The bitterness of the dark chocolate tends to mingle better with the freshness of the mint. I personally prefer peppermint as an accompaniment to chocolate rather than spearmint, but you could use either. There is more menthol naturally present in peppermint, so it has a sharper, less subtle flavour. It is this menthol that gives you that distinctive cooling sensation when you eat anything that is mint flavoured.