Chocolate Sweet Ground Chocolate & Cocoa Beverage Mix, 10-Pound Package

Very tasty and great for my hot chocolate drink. It's not overly sweet.

This is second box I have purchased. I am a hot cocoa connoisseur and most hot cocoa mixes should not even be allowed to be made. This is great tasting and excellent for the money.

Just what I was looking for!

I used to purchase this in normal human retail sizes; it makes the best fudgie brownies that my partner has been obsessed with for the duration of our 20 year relationship. We now purchase in bulk so we don’t run the risk of being unable to find it in stock locally. This just means I am now able to make brownies to share.

This hot chocolate is very rich! I will say mixing it in water is no good, it has to be milk due to the ingredients it's not as sweet of a hot chocolate!

I love cocoa. I usually have one cup a day. But it is hard to find a cocoa mix that doesn't have corn syrup solids. Both Swiss Miss and Nestle's Quik have corn syrup in their powdered mix. Thankfully, Ghirardelli Chocolate Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa Beverage Mix just has sugar, cocoa, unsweetened chocolate, soy lecithin and vanilla. Ghirardelli is known for quality chocolate, and this powdered mix doesn't disappoint. It has a rich, decadent chocolate flavor. Much better than any cocoa mix that I've used in the past. I find that I can use much less of it than they suggest for each glass of cocoa, because it is so rich. I have modified my cocoa recipe to try to limit the amount of sugar in each cup of cocoa. I add 15 or so drops of chocolate flavored liquid stevia to the warm milk--I use Sweetleaf Chocolate Liquid Stevia. Then I add the powdered cocoa mix. For a 20 oz. glass of warm milk, I add the stevia drops, then two rounded teaspoons of the Ghirardelli cocoa mix, and I'm good to go with much less sugar. But I still get a very rich, chocolaty cup of cocoa. Ghirardelli's cocoa mix is more expensive than Swiss Miss or Nestle Quik. But I don't want the corn syrup in my cocoa. After tasting the Ghirardelli's cocoa mix, I realized that the other cocoa mixes just don't have the true chocolaty flavor that I crave. I buy my Ghirardelli cocoa in the 10 lb. box, as it is much less expensive this way. I store it in canning jars, and it keeps quite well.

We've been buying the Ghiradelli Sweet Ground Chocolate in the 1 lb cans for a long time. It makes a wonderful hot cocoa and is especially good in coffee. It dissolves into drinks easily and is just the right level of sweetness. Note that this is ground chocolate, not ground cocoa. Cocoa is unsweetened; chocolate contains sugar. Buying cocoa and then adding your sugar yourself is probably more cost-effective, but it is less convenient for beverages, especially since even Dutch process cocoa does not dissolve as well as this ground chocolate does. However, I got tired of the 1 lb cans piling up, and so I decided to try finding a larger size online. This 10 lb package is a definite price saving over the 1 lb cans in the supermarket (at the price I paid; don't forget to add up the shipping!), and it means I won't have to buy so often, nor will I feel bad about discarding all those sturdy cans. It comes in a bag, tied with a reclosable zip tie, in a box - nothing fancy! I have a Camwear Polycarbonate Square Food Storage container, 6 Quart 6 liter square plastic container that turned out to be exactly the right size for this ten pounds of powdered chocolate. You probably won't want to go through the ten pounds with it staying in the plastic bag inside the cardboard box if you're using a tablespoon at a time. Alternately, if you have the cans or other jars around, refill them from the box and you'll do just fine.

I put a tablespoon in my coffee and the taste is just ok. The worst part is it doesn't dissolve very well and the last 4 or 5 sips of my coffee have a chalky texture that's not even chocolaty. Yuk. Swiss miss cocoa powder is much better. I won't be buying this again

Good For Smoothies , Shakes Etc