Anyone tried these yet: Nestles *Simply Delicious Dark Chocolate Morsels*? Chips made with only 3

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marilynfl

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ingredients:

100% real chocolate

Cocoa butter

Pure cane sugar

>> 67% cacao

*Free from 8 major food allergens*

PEANUTS

TREE NUTS

EGG

MILK

WHEAT

SOY

FISH

SHELLFISH

(although I'm wondering now exactly WHICH chocolate chip already has shellfish in it?)

Recipe on back calls for gluten-free flour mix and palm oil shortening

Picked it up at Walmart. $4.48 for 9 oz package of chips.

https://www.verybestbaking.com/products/11908/tollhouse/simply-delicious-semi-sweet-chocolate-morsels-by-nestle-toll-house/

 
I haven't seen or tried them, And a trip to Aldi's for Holiday Baking Supplies...

I have been saying for several years that Nestle has altered the toll house chocolate morsels. They just do not taste the same to me as they used to. I don't get that incredibly rich chocolately taste when I bite into a Toll House cookie.

Or maybe my pallate has matured? Is jaded? Is eroding?

I actually wrote to them about it and asked if they had changed the formula. They insisted they had not and that it was the same as it has always been.

Speaking of chocolate, I was at Aldi's last week and went into a frenzy:

14 lbs. of butter (at $1.99/lb.), 5 lbs of 60% cacao chocolate chips (that taste the way I remember Toll House used to taste--I really think they reduced their caco%), flour, sugar, brown, sugar, confectioners sugar, walnuts, hazelnuts, macadamias, etc.etc. My holiday baking kitchen is now stocked and I'm ready to start knocking out the cookies, stollen, Lebkucken, and all the other goodies. The prices are amazing (the sugars were $0.95/bag). I had my cart filled to the brim, including 14 lbs. of butter, and the total was $90. That would have easily been a $190 trip at Kroger.

They also had all sorts of wonderful Christmas candies for stocking stuffers. Pretty foil-wrapped hollow chocolates of nutcrackers, santa, snowmen, oranments, and bells. Gummi bears (large pack $0.95). I purchased a selection of these to fill the grandkid's christmas cones.

They also had piles of Lebkucken, Stollen, and other German holiday goodies, but I passed on all of these since I make my own (better). I did buy a bag of Spekulatius since I normally don't make those since they are so tedious to make. They're nice, but the spice is so mild. They are great for afternoon tea however, nice crisp caramel biscuit.

I hadn't been shopping at Aldi because the one that was near me was such a dump and the other's were so far away from me. The "dump" closed and they underwent a big remodel and just reopened. The difference is like opening the door at Dorothy's house after she landed in Oz. I will definitely make this my first stop shopping now.

 
I had serious problems using their baking products (flour, sugar and mixes)

This was over 10 years ago, so hopefully things changed.

The sugar, once I looked carefully, said 'PURE SUGAR' but did not specify PURE CANE SUGAR. It could have been beet sugar, date sugar, who knows what sugar, etc. It was very finely ground, almost powdery...much finer than Domino or CF sugars.

Their flour reacted differently from the KA all-purpose I had been baking with for years when used in recipes I knew.

Their boxed mixes left an off-taste. I stopped even giving those products away.

And it wasn't just me. A coworker had a chocolate cake she made every year for her son's birthday. One day she stopped me in the hall and asked for baking advice, saying the cake hadn't worked out at all this year and could I figure out what she had done wrong. I asked a few questions and then she mentioned Aldi. And I asked if she bought her ingredients there? Yes to flour, sugar, cocoa and vanilla. I suggested she go back to pantry ingredients she used to buy and try it again. Cake worked perfectly once again. Made a believer out of her. She LOVED that cake.

Aldi's candy, on the other hand...is wonderful. And their produce prices were well below my local stores.

 
Interesting. I will do some tests early before I ruin

anything major in my holiday baking.

I don't use mixes for anything, so no danger there.

I will inspect the flour, sugar, conf. sugar, brown sugar, cocoa, etc. tonight.

Thanks for the tip!

 
I looked over what I bought and it seems fine.

The sugar says 100% cane sugar, the cocoa 100% cocoa. I made a cup of hot cocoa and it was just fine.

I'll still do a batch of test cookies early to see how it all bakes.

Thanks.

 
Sorry about your experience. I am DEvoted to Aldi's and have no problem. Have only

used their brownie boxed mix so can't speak to other stuff. Prices are SO good and at Christmas it is like a fairyland of goodies.

 
oh, that's excellent news. I have not bothered with any baking pantry items since 2008, so I'm glad

they've improved. They do have really good prices.

 
They have renovated their stores and carry a larger inventory of things. Lidl has moved into

the American market and is a pretty direct competitor.
You can't beat their prices on fruits and vegetables.

 
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