Fudgsicles All Grown Up
- 4 ounces water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup loosely piled mint leaves
- 3 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate
- 1 ounce creme de cacao
- To freeze these, you'll need a 4-chambered popsicle mold with stems.
- Measure water and sugar into a saucepan. Stir, and bring to a boil.
- While the sugar water is heating, wash the mint leaves and pat them dry on a towel. Mound them in the center of a couple of paper towels, wrap them up, and roll them back and forth between your palms to bruise them. When the sugar mixture comes to a boil, remove from heat and stir in the mint leaves. Cover the pan, and let steep for 20 minutes.
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces of relatively the same size. Place the pieces in a mixing bowl. When mint is finished steeping, hold a strainer over the bowl containing the chocolate, and pour the sugar solution through it and onto the chocolate. Discard the mint leaves.
- Whisk the chocolate mixture until all pieces have melted completely, then whisk in the creme de cacao.
- Place the bowl in an ice water bath. Stir occasionally with a spatula until thickened and very cool.
- Divide among the popsicle molds, insert the stems, and freeze. Depending on how cold your freezer is, the fudgesicles should be ready to cool you off in about 2 to 3 hours, though letting them freeze overnight will give you the best results.
- To serve, run the molds under warm water and pull gently on the stem. These make a particularly heavenly dessert on a summer evening.
water, sugar, mint leaves, chocolate, chocolate, crueme de cacao
Taken from food52.com/recipes/18165-fudgsicles-all-grown-up (may not work)