I’ve used Ghirardelli chocolate for years in my chocolate chip cookies, but I’ve never loved the cookies? I always eat around the chocolate chips, suddenly had an epiphany that I may not just like Ghirardelli 🤦🏼♀️
by CluelessBlonde22
43 Comments
Amazing-Comedian687
Which was the winner?
Potatoskins937492
I don’t know the last time you bought them, but I bought some new ones recently and they were different from those… Ahh let’s say 2 years ago (I can’t remember exactly when I bought the old batch). Also, you can just chop up bar chocolate you like into chunks. Don’t let rules stop you from loving your chocolate chip cookies.
annsy5
I also don’t love Ghirardelli (which is practically blasphemous as I grew up near San Francisco), my faves are the Guittard chips that come in the red bag – I want to say they’re 63% chocolate?
I love the idea of the Guittard super cookie chips, but I want them to be made of a darker chocolate.
Curious to see which you like best!
Fr3d35
The cookies sll look good. Taste is so individual. Have you tried the Guittard Akoma chips? Our family likes those best.
alialdea
try callebaut chips
ajbates11
My favorite are valrona but you can’t find those in grocery stores. That’s what the bakery I worked in used
Simplysimple007
I like Guittard and the “speciality” chunks from Aldi.
Playful_Jelly
I just get bar chocolate and chop it to my desired size
justPizzas
Second for valrhona
Oskinator716
Milk Chocolate Chips are my favorite! (Ghirardelli or Nestle, I’m a “whichever is on sale” shopper)
Vrikshasana
Dark horse for your next experiment: Pound Plus chocolate from Trader Joe’s. Actually, any of their chips are delicious, but I will *always* chop up chunks from the giant bars of chocolate they sell. Nothing beats them, IMO.
cheesusfeist
I live near the Guittard factory and on days they are making batches, the whole town smells like chocolate. I am partial to them, of course, but also think they are supreme.
Slutt_Puppy
Can anyone tell me what Lily’s Chocolate “Style” baking chips are? Are these faux chocolate?
pepmin
Those Guittard cookies look the best and it is not even close! I bet they taste the best, too.
YippeeHobbies
Tollhouse and Guittard are my go to. Nothing beats Guittard for me.
GlitterBlood773
I love guittard. If you live in the US near an Aldi, specialty select chocolate chunks are my top choice, 3.95 for 10 ounces, semisweet & dark, I want to say 63%
maddiehamham
trader joes semi sweet chocolate chips and chunks are my fav to bake with!
LillianCatbutt
I’m always doing a mix. Semi sweet minis in whatever brand is available, something dark from Guittard. Always the chunks in whatever brand available. Recently also cracking a bar of premium chocolate in as well. It’s all about variety of flavor and texture. Cookies are a vessel for chocolate. Top em with flaked salt and ascend.
Annabel398
Guittard ftw!
Justmadeforvents
Ghirardelli is also a great chocolate. I do a mix of semi sweet, dark and milk chocolate for my cookies.
realplastic
valhrona caramelia is my absolute top favorite. callebaut chips 2nd, guittard 3rd. Unfortunately my ranking is the exact opposite of how easily I can acquire them.
Honest_Dark7326
If you have a target nearby, their store brand semi sweet are great! It’s my go-to cheap option and it’s creamier than the other budget options
Altruistic_Spirit542
I love the hersheys. They are usually less expensive than nestle and the others and they taste great in cookies. I don’t use it for anything other than cookies.
If I’m making truffles, dipping or drizzling chocolate I use Callebaut
KnucklestheEnchilada
When they’re on sale, Guittard’s dark chocolate and white chocolate are my new go-to chips! When they’re not, its usually whatever chocolate is on sale.
idkthisisnotmyusual
Guittard 100% but lilys is a great sugar free option
Frank_Jesus
I try to get free trade chocolate. F*ck Nestle. They are seriously evil and the chocolate is mediocre. The organic store brand at Kroger is really good, I think, plus it’s free trade.
Bight_my_ass
I order callebaut chocolate chips online. They’re so much better than anything I can get in store
littlemoon-03
I like this identity crisis
Far_Chocolate9743
Throwing in another vote for guittard. I love those. They don’t solidify after baking or something. They are the type of chips that do that oozy chocolate thing when you break it apart even at room temperature.
But since they are super expensive, my 2nd place choice *was* Target brand milk chocolate chip but I think they changed the recipe. They taste different now.
Third place is Safeway brand milk chocolate chips.
My least favorite is Ghirardelli. They have a weird chemical taste.
I usually combine target and guittard milk chocolate chips, and semi sweet chocolate chips to make my cookies.
thatoneovader
I mix a bunch of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks (Trader Joe’s pound plus dark and milk chocolate) together for my cookies. This gives them a more complex flavor.
gmrzw4
I’m pretty meh about chocolate chip cookies, but I do half chocolate chips and half butterscotch and it’s great!
Ambitious_Clock_8212
Well, four aren’t evil, so they have that going for them.
AnyTart319
If you haven’t tried 365 (Whole Foods) milk chocolate baking chips, I highly recommend them. They beat the line up every time.
Due-Estate-2447
Not to throw a wrench in your experiment, but I highly recommend doing a chopped up chocolate bar! I didn’t think it would make that much of a difference.. but wow it does!
I did Trader Joe’s pound bar.
IcePrincess_Not_Sk8r
My favorite are the Guittard Chocolate Extra Dark, Dairy Free, chocolate chips. The ones in the dark red bag.
I like dark chocolate, though. lol
Ghirardelli are fine, but I’ve come to the realization that I don’t really like chocolate chip cookies, which is so bizarre to me.
Dazzling-Serve357
I’m fond of the semisweet “super chips” from Guittard. It’s very satisfying to have large chips in the cookies.
4LordVader
4 of those gotta go
princess-viper
Guittard all the way for me
Shagga_Muffin
I use two or three different chocolate chips when making mine; milk, semi-sweet and dark.
Hot_Boss_3880
Guittard all the wayyyy. They sell the 4 or 5lb bags at Restaurant Depot and it’s so worth it.
43 Comments
Which was the winner?
I don’t know the last time you bought them, but I bought some new ones recently and they were different from those… Ahh let’s say 2 years ago (I can’t remember exactly when I bought the old batch). Also, you can just chop up bar chocolate you like into chunks. Don’t let rules stop you from loving your chocolate chip cookies.
I also don’t love Ghirardelli (which is practically blasphemous as I grew up near San Francisco), my faves are the Guittard chips that come in the red bag – I want to say they’re 63% chocolate?
I love the idea of the Guittard super cookie chips, but I want them to be made of a darker chocolate.
Curious to see which you like best!
The cookies sll look good. Taste is so individual. Have you tried the Guittard Akoma chips? Our family likes those best.
try callebaut chips
My favorite are valrona but you can’t find those in grocery stores. That’s what the bakery I worked in used
I like Guittard and the “speciality” chunks from Aldi.
I just get bar chocolate and chop it to my desired size
Second for valrhona
Milk Chocolate Chips are my favorite! (Ghirardelli or Nestle, I’m a “whichever is on sale” shopper)
Dark horse for your next experiment: Pound Plus chocolate from Trader Joe’s. Actually, any of their chips are delicious, but I will *always* chop up chunks from the giant bars of chocolate they sell. Nothing beats them, IMO.
I live near the Guittard factory and on days they are making batches, the whole town smells like chocolate. I am partial to them, of course, but also think they are supreme.
Can anyone tell me what Lily’s Chocolate “Style” baking chips are? Are these faux chocolate?
Those Guittard cookies look the best and it is not even close! I bet they taste the best, too.
Tollhouse and Guittard are my go to. Nothing beats Guittard for me.
I love guittard. If you live in the US near an Aldi, specialty select chocolate chunks are my top choice, 3.95 for 10 ounces, semisweet & dark, I want to say 63%
trader joes semi sweet chocolate chips and chunks are my fav to bake with!
I’m always doing a mix. Semi sweet minis in whatever brand is available, something dark from Guittard. Always the chunks in whatever brand available. Recently also cracking a bar of premium chocolate in as well. It’s all about variety of flavor and texture. Cookies are a vessel for chocolate. Top em with flaked salt and ascend.
Guittard ftw!
Ghirardelli is also a great chocolate. I do a mix of semi sweet, dark and milk chocolate for my cookies.
valhrona caramelia is my absolute top favorite. callebaut chips 2nd, guittard 3rd. Unfortunately my ranking is the exact opposite of how easily I can acquire them.
If you have a target nearby, their store brand semi sweet are great! It’s my go-to cheap option and it’s creamier than the other budget options
I love the hersheys. They are usually less expensive than nestle and the others and they taste great in cookies. I don’t use it for anything other than cookies.
If I’m making truffles, dipping or drizzling chocolate I use Callebaut
When they’re on sale, Guittard’s dark chocolate and white chocolate are my new go-to chips! When they’re not, its usually whatever chocolate is on sale.
Guittard 100% but lilys is a great sugar free option
I try to get free trade chocolate. F*ck Nestle. They are seriously evil and the chocolate is mediocre. The organic store brand at Kroger is really good, I think, plus it’s free trade.
I order callebaut chocolate chips online. They’re so much better than anything I can get in store
I like this identity crisis
Throwing in another vote for guittard. I love those. They don’t solidify after baking or something. They are the type of chips that do that oozy chocolate thing when you break it apart even at room temperature.
But since they are super expensive, my 2nd place choice *was* Target brand milk chocolate chip but I think they changed the recipe. They taste different now.
Third place is Safeway brand milk chocolate chips.
My least favorite is Ghirardelli. They have a weird chemical taste.
I usually combine target and guittard milk chocolate chips, and semi sweet chocolate chips to make my cookies.
I mix a bunch of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks (Trader Joe’s pound plus dark and milk chocolate) together for my cookies. This gives them a more complex flavor.
I’m pretty meh about chocolate chip cookies, but I do half chocolate chips and half butterscotch and it’s great!
Well, four aren’t evil, so they have that going for them.
If you haven’t tried 365 (Whole Foods) milk chocolate baking chips, I highly recommend them. They beat the line up every time.
Not to throw a wrench in your experiment, but I highly recommend doing a chopped up chocolate bar! I didn’t think it would make that much of a difference.. but wow it does!
I did Trader Joe’s pound bar.
My favorite are the Guittard Chocolate Extra Dark, Dairy Free, chocolate chips. The ones in the dark red bag.
I like dark chocolate, though. lol
Ghirardelli are fine, but I’ve come to the realization that I don’t really like chocolate chip cookies, which is so bizarre to me.
I’m fond of the semisweet “super chips” from Guittard. It’s very satisfying to have large chips in the cookies.
4 of those gotta go
Guittard all the way for me
I use two or three different chocolate chips when making mine; milk, semi-sweet and dark.
Guittard all the wayyyy. They sell the 4 or 5lb bags at Restaurant Depot and it’s so worth it.
guittard is that gworl
Guittard is my favorite chocolate!
Chop bars of anything but nestle r/fucknestle