Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Mint Ice Cream - The Local Palate

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter
• softened
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• room temperature
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ⅔ cup cocoa (not Dutch-processed)
• preferably Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup milk
• 1½ cups whole milk
• 2½ cups cream
• 1 cup sugar
• divided
• 6 sprigs mint
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
• preferably Nielsen Massey