

Over medium low heat, simmer the mint leaves with the cream. God.Ĥ ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate When you put the ice cream scoop through the ice cream, you can hear the chocolate breaking apart. He added streams of melted chocolate in layers to create the slivers of bittersweet chocolate. But, the thing that really sold me was the way he instructed to add the chips. While I do not like ice cream made with eggs, I loved the idea of steeping the mint leaves in cream. I found David Lebovitz’s recipe for mint chocolate chip and took inspiration from him. I saw some mint at the farm stand that I could not leave without and brought home a few bunches and was not sure of what to do with it. Once I had mint chocolate chip made with real mint, my life was changed forever. The problem I think that is the flavoring that we used was artificial. Some want big chocolate chips while others want chocolate shavings. Some want it to be green, some want it be white. People have very strong opinions on the way mint chocolate chip ice cream should be. We had hundreds of flavors and were always coming up with new recipes and ways to improve on recipes, but mint chocolate chip was never quite right. While working at Penguins (isn’t that a cute name for an ice cream parlor?) there was much debate over mint chocolate chip ice cream. She passed away a few years ago and think of her often. She had a wicked sense of humor and could make me blush easily. There were a bunch of teenage girls that worked in the store and she used to listen to us gripe about our parents and our boyfriends and she always gave great advice. The woman that owned it, Marlene, was one of the kindest and most loving people that I have been lucky enough to know. I worked there for 7 years and I did eat it every day. People always used to ask me if I got tired of ice cream. I used to work in the back and made batch after batch of ice cream. I worked in an ice cream parlor that served homemade ice cream. When I was in high school, I had pretty much the best job ever.
