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Ghirardelli Chocolate Hot Chocolate Mix - Double Chocolate, 16 oz |  | Brand: Ghirardelli
Category: Grocery
Buy New: $5.95
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Seller: Ghirardelli Chocolate
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 7878
Country: USA
Ingredients: Sweet Ground Chocolate And Cocoa (Contains: Sugar, Cocoa, Unsweetened Chocolate, Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier, Vanilla)
Media: Misc.
Size: 16 oz can
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 3.3 x 3.2
MPN: 91562001
UPC: 747599620010
EAN: 0747599620010
ASIN: B0005Z7PI0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Made with real chocolate | | | Each tin holds 16 ounce | | | Experience the luxury deep flavor of Ghirardelli premium Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa |
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Product Description
The luxuriously deep flavor of Ghirardelli premium Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa creates the intense, lingering chocolate experience cherished by true cocoa lovers. We start with cocoa from the finest beans, blend just the right amount of sugar and real vanilla, and add real chocolate for a rich chocolate taste.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 20
 You Gotta Love It! December 15, 2004
M. Allen Greenbaum (California)
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
Compared to a national franchise that has a last syllable of "buck$" (cheap shot, I agree), this easy-to-make mix is just as rich, but perhaps not as overtly sweet. (Plus, you don't have to commute for your chocolate, you get a cool plastic container with "chocolat chaud" written on it, and you know the contents of what you're drinking!) Mr. Domingo Ghirardelli began his company more than a century ago, and today, Ghirardelli hot chocolate mix is made in the San Francisco Bay area (picturesque San Leandro--south of Oakland, north of Fremont). Of course, Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco is a well-known and loved attraction for native and visitor alike, where diners can watch as the giant Wonka-like mixer whips up the potion.
At home, simply microwave milk or water for 3-4 minutes and add the mix, or put liquid and mix into a small pan, and stir until you've reached the desired heat. Whipped cream or marshmallows are traditional accoutrements, although drinking it straight is an experience just as beautiful. Ingredients are sweet ground chocolate and cocoa (the latter contains sugar, cocoa processed with alkali--they are very forthcoming about its manufacture--unsweetened chocolate (also process with alkali), soy lecithin--an emulsifier, and vanilla. C'est tout!
Not counting the milk or water base, 3 tablespoons of chocolate mix has only 80 calories, 1.5 grams fat (0.5 g saturated), 19 g total carbohydrates (of which 1 g is dietary fiber and 17 g are sugar, not clear what happened to the other one gram), and there is even one whole gram of protein, and 2% of the recommended daily value of iron!
OK, so it's not exactly a health drink. But it is relatively low fat, no or very little caffeine, and, most important of all, makes a "bowl of soul," a creamy rich, closed-eyed dreamy experience of fragrance and flavor, that only reminds you of the good things and prepares you for the others. It may move you, as it does me, to rhapsodic heights. Twenty servings per can, give some to your sweetie.
VERY CHOCOLATE-EE WITHOUT TONS OF ADDED SUGAR=DOUBLE CHOCOLATE November 23, 2005
Heather L. Parisi (St. Augustine, FL USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
WHAT IT IS!
The incredible thing about this stuff is that it is very, very chocolate-ee without a ton of added sugar and calories. It is much better tasting than the usual grocery store brands, but it is harder to find, though not much more expensive. Very full bodied, and ideal for adding to coffee to make your very own Hot Coffee/Chocolate treat, or just drink it by itself. It is about the best Hot Chocolate I have ever found.
A great value actually, and it even has its share of iron and protein, a nice touch along with avoiding excessive sugar.
IDEAL GIFT:
This year, this will be a Christmas gift that alot of people will be getting from me. Buying this here at Amazon has really simplified matters and allows me to give away a rare treat that is easily purchased here though not usually at one's local grocery. The shipping and handling policy of this vendor makes the cost of additional items to be shipped, negligible, making it ideal to buy a bunch at a time. What more could one ask for?
Great cocoa flavor like none other, but waaaaay tooo sweeeeet December 6, 2006
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Whoah! I just peeled myself off the ceiling after drinking a cup of this. This might be better named "Double Sugar" Flavor Hot Chocolate mix.
First, the good stuff. There is no doubt in my mind that Ghirardelli continues to make a distinctive, excellent quality chocolate. The cocoa used in this mix is smooth, dark, fruity and aromatic. Nothing else like it that I've ever tasted.
Now, the criticism. There is just too much sugar in the mix. The recommended proportion of mix to 8 oz milk is four tablespoons. (By the by, there is no powdered milk in here. You must add your own milk--or soymilk or rice milk--great option for lactose-intolerant types.)
People, you are using a quarter cup of mix at 4 Tbs and most of the mix seems to be granulated sugar, which you can taste and crunch in your mouth if you sample the dry mix. Cutting down fifty percent on the mix gave me an acceptable cup of cocoa but...it was no longer double chocolate and it had naturally a poorer mouth feel and aroma.
Double Chocolate Mix is some of the best cocoa I WOULD have had, if Ghirardelli could see their way to making a lower sugar version, and please, no sugar substitute, which I don't like to use.
Summary; great chocolate flavor, unsurpassed. But overly sweet. If you don't like supersweet cocoa, pass this up. If you do love extremely sweet hot drinks, you will absolutely adore this mix.
absolutely the best hot cocoa mix March 24, 2006
Sammy Madison (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The ingredients in the major brands of store-bought hot cocoa mix are alarming. They don't taste good either. I don't like to think that I actually used to drink the stuff. The Ghirardelli hot cocoa mix is not at all like that nasty sweet stuff. It is just so good! It doesn't have any disgusting ingredients. Of course it is not a low-calorie food, but it's quite good made with whatever level of reduced-fat milk you are accustomed to, and if you mix part cocoa and part coffee, that saves on calories, too. Because it is made with high-quality Ghirardelli cocoa, it tastes even better than mom used to make (my mom didn't have access to gourmet cocoa powder). If you buy this product, you will not be disappointed. It would be nice if this mix was also available in single-serving envelopes.
Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate Mix March 15, 2006
Novel Stitch (IL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A soothing mmmm. I enjoy the rich, smooth chocolate mixed into a cup of hot skim milk. It is worth every penny.
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