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(More customer reviews)Guittard is one of the best chocolate-makers in the US (i.e. companies that make their own chocolate from cocoa beans). Until about a decade ago, they sold mostly wholesale to chocolatiers, bakers and restaurants, but added baking chocolate and tasting bars, and now chocolate powder to capitalize on the recent trend for hot chocolate, which is different from hot cocoa, much richer and thicker and with a more satisfying mouth feel.
This chocolate mix is made from cocoa, chocolate liquor (i.e. containing cocoa butter) and sugar, not just cocoa. As such, it makes hot chocolate, not hot cocoa. You have to follow the instructions and use four tablespoons of powder for one mug of hot chocolate. This may seem excessive, but it produces some of the most amazing hot chocolate you can get short of visiting Angelina on Rue de Rivoli in Paris (you could get similar results by melting half a bar of chocolate in milk, of course).
Be aware the powder has sugar already mixed in, and thus you are not paying just for chocolate but also cheaper sugar, which makes this a fairly expensive product, specially considering one box does not go very far, sadly (hence only 4 stars, even if the taste warrants a full 5). The sugar ratio is a bit on the high side, probably to cater to American tastes. Adjust accordingly if you use this for baking. Diabetics should probably opt for other Guittard products like their Cocoa Rouge cocoa powder.
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