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Sugar and spice -- like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and vanilla -- make desserts nice. You'll find those sweet standards here, along with less conventional herb and spice additions like lavender, basil, lemon verbena, black pepper, chiles, and saffron.
Chocolate Mint Syrup
Chocolate mint denotes both the flavor and the mint variety used in this recipe for homemade chocolate mint syrup. If you don't have access to chocolate mint, you can use regular mint instead.

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