Customer Reviews

Ghirardelli Chocolate Classic White Chocolate Baking Chips, 11 oz.

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This are NOT white chocolate chips since they don't contain any cocoa butter in them, that's why they're labeled "Classic White" instead of "White chocolate". They don't taste good and their flavor is nothing near the true white chocolate flavor.

The ingredients:Sugar, palm kernel oil, whole milk powder, nonfat dry milk, palm oil, soy lecithin, vanilla.

The only good thing about them is that they don't contain any partially hydrogenated oils (=trans fat) like the nestle's white chips.

I thought these chips would be the same excellent quality as the Ghirardelli White Chocolate bar. Instead of cocoa butter, which is the main ingredient in really good white chocolate, these chips have both palm kernel AND palm oil. This is very disappointing, since other Ghirardelli products I have tried have been excellent. Don't waste your money on these expensive, horrible-tasting white chocolate chip wannabes.

For some reason I thought these were white chocolate - you know, the kind with cocoa butter. Silly me for assuming that Ghiradelli would sell chocolate (or at the very least products containing ingredients from the cacao plant). The only thing these have in common with the cacao plant is that they are produced by a company with chocolate in their name. Disappointing flavor and funny texture. Not at all what I thought I was buying.

I used to buy Ghirardelli white chips specifically because they were the only ones that I could find that contained cocoa butter. A few years back they changed the formulation to not include white chocolate/cocoa butter, and removed the word "chocolate" from the product name (Amazon needs to update their title too). Recently I was able to find "real" white chocolate chunks (not chips) at Whole Foods and I buy them for my cookies instead now. Ghirardelli, if you are listening, the only reason I bought your brand instead of your competitors is because you used to use cocoa butter in your white chips. The White chocolate chips are what introduced me to your brand and now I buy your baking bars, your milk and semi sweet chocolate chips, your candy, your hot cocoa and more - easily spending $200+ annually on Ghirardelli products. If these chips were on the market without cocoa butter 8 years ago, I wouldn't be buying anything from your brand today. Please reverse the bad corporate decision that was made and restore cocoa butter to this product. Having no cocoa butter in your white chips changes your image from a premium brand to just a regular brand.