Mint chocolate can be downright divisive. People tend to love it or go out of their way to avoid it. We also have deep attachments to various mint chocolate treats: Girl Scout Thin Mints, After Eights, Junior Mints, and Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.
15 Mint Chocolate Recipes
If you love mint chocolate or just want to try a new recipe that isn’t “just” chocolate, give these a try!
Matcha Mint Chocolate Chia Pudding
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
Pliny the Elder
Have you tried chia pudding? You must! It’s so weird and delicious and fun. For this recipe, combine chia seeds, almond milk, mint, matcha, and honey and let them sit. Chia seeds swell up to 10 times their size and become a kind of like jelly pods that pop when you chew one.
For the chocolate pudding topping, combine bananas, cocoa powder, and almond milk. This treat is high in fiber, high in omegas, and naturallyvegan and gluten-free!
Mint Chocolates
If you’re a real peppermint lover, these mint chocolates are for you! This recipe is dairy and processed sugar-free, and even usesnatural coloring with spirulina. Nice!
You’ll need coconut butter, vanilla almond milk, maple syrup, peppermint extract, spirulina powder, dark chocolate, and coconut oil.
Once people commit to drinking nut milk like almond milk, they tend to get stuck drinking commercial milkbecause they are easy to buy and has a nice creamy texture that works well in things like coffee.
They almost all have additives like guar gum, xantham gum, or carrageenanwhich many people surprisingly have bad reactions too! If you love nut milk, try making your own or using a brand like Three Trees. It is expensive because it’s just almonds…other nut milkdoesn’t use any nuts, yikes!
No Bake Mint Chocolate Lasagna
Mint chocolate lasagna, WHAT??? It’s ok, it’s just a whimsical name for a dessert that definitely does not contain pasta or tomatoes.
As an aside, did you know that in many Asian countries, the tomato cherry is widely considered to be a fruit? Yes, scientifically, tomatoesare fruit, but in the West, we keep them to savory foods. Travel to China and expect to find tomatoes on your ice cream sundae!
Back to this “lasagna”! You’ll need Mint Oreos, butter, cream cheese, sugar, cream, Cool Whip, instant chocolate pudding, milk, mint extract, and green food coloring (or spirulina). This recipe is no-bake and easy enough for the author’s 11-year-old daughter to make. Win!
Chocolate Mint Fudge Pie
Isn’t it funny how the word fudge instantly makes food sound more delicious?
Ok, so this recipe is raw, vegan, and gluten-free. No way is it going to be tasty, right? Wrong! Raw, vegan desserts have come a long, long way in recent years as more and more people experiment with making tasty desserts.
The crust of this pie is made from walnuts, Medjool dates, and cocoa, for example. That’s gotta be tasty! The fudgy layers are made with an avocado base. Avocado in desserts and smoothies is a fun one, because people absolutely, 100% DO NOT WANT avocado in their sweet foods. Then they try it and realize the avocado-ness fades away and it makes whatever it’s blended into like a super pudding. Try it!
Mint Chocolate Date Nut Bars
These are super fun and delicious recipe to make an offer to people. When they start raving, surprised them with “By the way, they’re vegan paleo!” Yes, they’re that good.
You’ll need these ingredients: Medjool dates, nuts, cacao, mint, dairy-free dark chocolate, coconut oil, coconut butter, and matcha powder.
The base of this is like a breakfast bar, but the matcha cream layer and chocolate coating turn it into a chocolate-y, minty, matcha-y, yummy treat.
Thin Mint Cookie Overnight Oats
Have you tried overnight oats yet? Cooking oats in milk is actually just a really fast way of getting the oats to soften and absorb the milk, but you can do the exact same thing by leaving it overnight. It’s actually nice and refreshing in the summer when the last thing you want to eat is a steaming hot bowl of oatmeal.
This recipe is a basic overnight oatmeal recipe, but with dark chocolate and mint to make it almost like a dessert, but still outrageously healthy!
Vegan Mint Chocolate Oreo Cupcakes
Did you know Oreos are vegan? Yeah, the cream filling isn’t cream. Huh. Who knows?
If you’re loving Mint Chocolate Oreos, give this super moist mint chocolate cupcake recipe a try! It has fluffy chocolate mint frosting and an Oreo on top! Surprise, it’s also dairy-free and vegan.
Mint Chocolate Chip Fudge
More fudge! This recipe combines canned frosting and chocolate to make a dreamy, creamy chocolate mint fudge recipe you’ll love!
Fudgetraditionally is a type ofsugar candythat is made by mixingbutter, sugar, andmilk, and heating it to a very low temperature. Then you beat it while the mixture cools so it has a smooth, creamy consistency.
If you want to try a traditional chocolate mint fudge recipe, you’ll need:
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon mint extract
In a saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate chips with the sweetened condensed milk and add the salt. Take off the heat, and stir in the mint extract. Spread it evenly in a foil-lined nine-inch square pan. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours, or until firm. Remove it and cut it into yummy fudge bites!
Chocolate Covered Mint Leaves
Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
Iggy Azalea
We use a lot of mint extract in this list, but don’t forget fresh mint leaves! If you’ve planted mint in your garden, you’ll know it grows like a weed and you end up with more mint than you could ever use. This recipe calls for 70% cocoa dark chocolate, coconut oil, and fresh mint leaves. Just dip the leaves in melted chocolate and cool. So refreshing, so simple.
Avocado Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
A healthy ice cream that doesn’t need an ice cream maker? Sign us up! You’ll need avocados, banana, coconut oil, mint, maple syrup, milk, and bittersweet chocolate chips. Blend and freeze for an outrageously delicious summer treat!
Raw Nut and Seed Chocolate Chunk Mint Energy Balls
Energy balls are a fun alternative to energy bars. Who said that they had to come in a rectangular flat shape, right?
These are super easy to make and can be carried in a baggie throughout your day to keep your energy levels high and banish hunger. You’ll need almonds, cashews, pepitas, hemp seeds, flax seeds, chia seeds, cocoa, raw honey, peanut butter, dark chocolate, mint, and coconut or rice flour.
You basically just run it all through a food processor and roll the dough into balls. How easy is that?
Raw Chocolate Mint Tarts
A lot of these mint chocolate recipes are awesome for a St. Patrick’s day party because of the green. That doesn’t mean you can’t eat them year-round, of course!
These are a tad complicated, but well worth it! They rely on coconut oil and milk, dates, cocoa, and avocado to create a variety of different flavors and textures. This recipe is also raw and vegan, so a big YAY! for healthy and delicious.
Vegan Midnight Mint Mocha Brownies (Starbucks Frappuccino Copycat!)
Oooooooh, that Midnight Mint Mocha Frappuccino from Starbucks was downright addictive! Make a vegan brownie version with this recipe that uses flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, vegan butter, sugar, flax eggs, instant coffee, vanilla, nut milk, and peppermint. You won’t believe these are vegan!
Mint Chocolate Popsicles
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Root
Most popsicles are vegan, because they are mostly fruit and water, right? So mint and chocolate aren’t fruits, but this recipe still keeps it dairy free and refreshing. Mix coconut milk, cacao powder and nibs, maple syrup, spirulina, mint, and chocolate chips, then freeze them in popsicle makers.
Grab one and hop in the pool for some summer fun!
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Green mint chocolate chip cookies? Sign us up! This is a very standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, but people tend to add cocoa to the dough when making mint cookies. This one doesn’t, so the mint extract turns it green. How fun!
What Are Your Favorite Mint Chocolate Recipes?
Whether you’re looking for an unhealthy but oh-so-decadent mint chocolate dessert, or want a totally virtuous mint chocolate raw chocolate treat to nosh between workouts, we got you covered!
Skip the mint extract and use fresh mint from the garden during the summer for a subtle, fresh mint pop to any of these recipes.
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