Sweet and sticky (Picture: After Eight) Serves: 36. Ingredients. 450g white chocolate (can be milk if preferred) 397g condensed milk; Small bunch of mint leaves ...

The result was a shortbread-scented delight, and Valrhona began manufacturing the world's first "blond" chocolate bar shortly ...

Its chocolate has a minimum of 50 per cent cocoa solids. After Eights have a cute white-and-gold logo on the back showing a bird feeding her scaldies in the nest.

The recipe combines After Eights with cream cheese, icing sugar, double cream, dark chocolate, vanilla extract, digestives and butter, and tastes even more delicious than it looks.

Phantom recently purchased four packages of chocolate mints at a local supermarket. The refreshing contenders were After Eight, Andes, Ghirardelli, and Haviland.

When chocolate was a treat: Vintage ads recall heyday of wafer-thin mint as After Eight celebrates 50th birthday. By HAYLEY DIXON . Published: 05:44 EDT, 21 December 2012 | Updated: 10:01 EDT, 21 ...