I like the flavor in my coffee drinks and works well in baked recipes.

Item arrived as advertised and fast.

One of the best spicy coco out there!

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.

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!