My Mom used to make these Mint Chocolate Squares every December when I was growing up. It wasn’t her recipe creation. I’m quite sure she tore it out of a magazine, or perhaps it was one of those Pilbury contest winning recipes. It’s a good recipe though, and we’ve hung on to this recipe and have made it every year since. You know how you have that pile of recipes that you make on repeat every single year during the holidays? This recipe is in that pile at my house!
How to store Mint Chocolate Squares:
Since they have a mint cream filling and a chocolate layer on top, we like to keep these in the refrigerator until we’re ready to eat them. They’re better eaten chilled anyways. And you can get good, clean slices of these when they’re well chilled.
Christmas, of course, is the obvious, festive time to make these and enjoy them. If you don’t want the green layer to be green, then just leave out the green food coloring and plan for them to have a white mint cream layer instead. St. Patrick’s Day is another day to celebrate Mint Chocolate Squares. That bright green layer is perfect for spreading a little bit of green cheer!
What kind of food coloring makes the best green color?
Mint Green will get you a color more like what you see in the photos here. Forest Green will get you a darker color green. I think the mint green is prettiest! Add just a little smudge of the gel into your cream layer to see how that green looks, and then you can add more as needed until you get the color you were looking for.
As I mentioned before, it’s totally okay to leave out the green color and enjoy these as a mint chocolate dessert instead. You’ll get a white mint cream layer, and it will resemble what the inside of a Peppermint Pattie looks like. I promise these Chocolate Mint Squares will be just as good without the color if you want to go that route.
Here are a few more green themed recipes you might enjoy:
Green Smoothie Waffles Tropical Green Smoothie Green Mac N Cheese Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake
