Exactly what I wanted!! Organic, clean, added natural sugar, but not too much. Perfect amounts of everything. Absolutely Delicious.

Best chocolate with my coffee 🌸

Make your self a great cup of chocolate with this powder.

This is good but it's pretty spicy

This is a very tasty dark chocolate mix to make hot chocolate beverages. One can add either hot milk or hot water to a tablespoon of Equal Exchange Organic Dark Hot Chocolate and have a delicious hot chocolate to warm your body and soul.

Bought this last Christmas for my mom, she said it was pretty good but mixed it half and half with milk chocolate so that it was a little sweeter. Now the price is outrageous so she didn't get any this year.

Love this chocolate powder. I put it on or in almost everything I eat or drink. I’ve even given it as gifts. Don’t like that it doubled in price.

Excellent - spicy and not too sweet

Excellent product

I have used this dark, hot chocolate several times. It is delicious. What else can I say?

So richly deep of chocolate! It’s amazing for hot cocoa that is not very sweet but I have also added some to cake recipes with great results. Fantastic quality!

For those not wanting a too sweet powder. Flavorful Dark Chocolate predominates and is sooooooooo satisfying. I also used this to add that DARK CHOCOLATE flavor to less strong Hot Chocolate powders.

If someone is looking for sweet cocoa this is not sweet. Spicy. I like it.

This is my favorite cocoa powder. I have been using it to make mocha in the morning for several years. I sometimes bought directly with equal exchange website and sometimes here through Amazon. My last order didn’t come out too well. There was cocoa powder all over when I opened it. It was sent on an Amazon paper bag instead of a box like usual. The paper label seemed to be different. The one on the left is a previous logo and the one on the right is a new one. However, the powder taste the same. Maybe the company just changed their logo.

From hot cocoa, to my morning mocha, this is a kitchen staple in my home. I love that it not only tastes amazing, but the quality ingredients take it to the next level. First of all, I so enjoy scooping this out of the round container, rather than a plastic bag! Way less messy! The serving size is quite generous, and I’m able to only use half of what’s recommended, which then of course lets it last a bit longer. Even at half, it’s amazing how little the sugar content is for such a creamy, chocolaty product!

I enjoy a nightly treat of a cup of non-dairy hot chocolate. I have been enjoying the non-dairy Swiss Miss. I saw this and figured that it would be richer and more enjoyable. I was so wrong. I made this with extra creamy oat milk. I couldn't wait to finish the cup and honestly I wish I had just dumped it. It was not good. The taste is a bitter and as much as I expect some bitterness with dark chocolate, I figured that it would be balanced here. It is not. It is a lingering bitterness that just did not leave the palate. Also, the product did not fully want to dissolve in the HOT milk. It mixed but not fully. Not the biggest of deals there but it was a factor. I really like the ease of hot water with the Swiss Miss. I had thought of trying this with hot water but I can only imagine it would be so much worse than it is with the milk. Sorry to say that this was a waste of money for me. Not sure if there is anything I can do with the rest of the product, but I highly doubt I will be making another cup of hot chocolate with it again. I hate leaving negative reviews so I am giving this three stars but honestly, I really think it only deserves one.

This is my personal favorite for hot chocolate ... but alas, I gave up sugar last year. Waited until my last can was consumed though! Personally, I love the Cayenne. However, I never use as much of a product as recommended on the label ... and I mixed mine with whole milk and/or raw whole milk (when I can get it). I fixed it to my personal taste ... some days I added more ... some days less. On days where I felt like more of a deeper taste, I added everything from unsweetened chocolate to semi-sweet chocolate chips. Real Vanilla is also good.But ... due to health concerns I gave up all sugar and 99% of carbohydrates. Improved health and reduction in pain was almost immediate, and quite frankly unbelievable. In less than two weeks my fibro pain and arthritis pain were noticeably better. I'm off all pain medication now, my energy has greatly improved, stabilized blood sugar, and I'm sleeping like a baby again. CThis is in no way a slam on this hot chocolate. It is one of the things I really miss. I just wish they would make one without sugar ... or sweeteners of any kind. Leave it to the consumer to add their preferred sweetener of choice. But I'll probably have to come up with my own recipe. Until then I got some Cayenne sauce for my eggs.In the meantime, I'll probably order more as gifts. Everyone I have shared this with has loved it.

I absolutely love this hot cocoa mix and I drink it every day!! I feel like i have tried almost all of the hot chocolate mixes out there (or it seems like anyway) and hated every single one of them. I would prefer to just go to Starbucks every day and get a hot chocolate, but my budget couldn't afford it. So i forced myself to try to find a mix that i could live with. I came across this one on Amazon and had never heard of the company. It had good reviews, so i took a chance. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MIX! They also have a dark chocolate flavor, which is VERY dark, but still good. I thought i would like the dark chocolate, but i ended up just like the regular hot chocolate as its pretty chocolatey on its own. After some experimentation, i have come up (for me at least) with the perfect hot chocolate recipe that i use every morning! I honestly like it better than Starbucks now. I heat up exactly 3/4 cup water until i see a bubble or two appear, then take out the water and add in 2 and 1/2 tablespoons of the mix; mix well. Then i add 1/2 tablespoon of heavy cream (dont use milk); when measuring it, pour the cream all the way to fill the spoon until it is ready to just about spill over; thats the perfect amount. Mix everything together. I drink this stuff every single morning; even my kids are hooked on it!

My husband loved chocolate and introduced me to dark chocolates which have antioxidants and as he was a food chemist told me the chocolate was actually good for you if you use the dark chocolate. When we were in his homeland in Australia near Nagamby which is north of Melbourne we were taken to a chocolate candy and hot chocolate shop in the middle of the outback. I ordered a hot chocolate that was spicy. When I asked the owners how spicy it was, they told me that it was as spicy as I wanted after it was served. I was to stir the chocolate a bit and take a taste and if I wanted it spicier to stir it more and it would get more spicy. And it did work that way. I was enchanted and tried to find it when I came home to the United States. On a subsequent trip when I visited the Chocolate Museum in Cologne, Germany, I purchased some Heilmann’s Chocolate that had chilies in it and decided to try it in my hot chocolate on the ship we were traveling on the Danube River. It was perfect if I put one or two tiny squares of the chili flavored chocolate in the hot chocolate that I made.When I came home I tried to find more Heilmann’s Chocolate only to eventually learn that they were not certified to sell their products in the United States. (As an aside, I tried another’s company’s chili infused chocolate in my hot chocolate but it had no effect at all-a surprise. Therefore, the search to find Heilmann’s.) But I finally did find this Equal Exchange Organic Spicy Hot Chocolate in a specialty shop. Though I’m not able to use it straight as it’s a bit too spicy by itself, I use the Dark Chocolate mix from Swiss Miss and put a heaping teaspoon of the spicy mix in the cup to make a wonderfully rich and spicy hot chocolate.It last very long if needed in the tin and retains its flavor. So purchasing three at a time is no problem. I love it.

The tins were delivered within 2-3 days of placing my order, and when I opened up the package, there weren’t any product defects I could see. The tins looked pretty much like the one in the image. Thinking that this would be pretty tasty, I cracked open a can and mixed two heaping spoonfuls of the mix into some hot milk. I could taste all of the ingredients – they just didn’t necessarily blend together well. The spiciness stuck out like a sore thumb. It was as if someone had accidentally spilled some peppers into a perfectly fine (but somewhat weak) blend of chocolate & cinnamon. Maybe it’s because I enjoy lots of spicy foods, so I get a lot of quality ones – from curry ramen to Szechuan peppercorn peanuts – but the common denominator in these is that the spiciness never tastes “hollow”, like how sugar water tastes “hollow” compared to a jam. The mix’s spiciness tasted “hollow.” I felt like the mix could’ve used some vanilla or more bitter notes from a stronger, darker chocolate flavor to round things out, plus a little more sugar for that “wow” factor (maybe more cocoa butter? I’ve never tasted pure cocoa butter, so I couldn’t say). If this were cheaper, I think it would be worth it, but I think I could make a better version at home more cost-effectively.Final Verdict:Timely delivery/No defects? – Yeah, it came on time, and it was fine. = 1 star.Style/Customer service - It looks professional. = 1 starMeets expectations? - I can taste all of the ingredients it says it has. = 1 starExceeds expectations/Exceedingly tasty? - Not particularly. Add some Thai chilies to Swiss Miss for a better, comparable flavor. = no star.Cost – It’s kinda pricey – about the same price as the Starbucks Hot Cocoa from Costco during the holidays. That hot cocoa at Costco has both a competitive price and more balanced flavor, so I would say that this isn’t worth it. = no star.