Serious Eats / Mariel De La Cruz Steeping fresh mint leaves in hot cream and milk for two hours is ideal for extracting that minty-fresh flavor. Chocolate blended with a little oil, then drizzled into the churning ice cream, melts smooth and creamy on the tongue, unlike the typical chocolate chunks. You may not think of mint ice cream as the kind of thing that tears people apart, but l'll tell you from experience: Precious few discussions of the flavor stay civil for long.