Hershey’s Special Dark Syrup, 623 Grams

I prefer this dark chocolate flavor over the regular one!

No price mentioned on product…I think the cost mentioned is very high

I was so happy to find this. I really like to make an intensely chocolatey shake with unsweetened cocoa powder and cashew or almond milk, then sweeten it just a bit with syrup (I drink black coffee and tea too, so I don’t aim for very sweet). This darker syrup helps keep the dark-chocolate flavor I’m after without making it taste so mild and milk-chocolatey like regular choco syrup does. I prefer the Hersey’s one over others I’ve tried (Ghirardelli also makes a dark one, and I think I found another way back when, maybe by Torani). It’s kind of hard to find this in stores, so I’m glad Amazon Fresh had it. This is branded as Special Dark on the label (despite the more generic wording of the Amazon listing’s title), and I can’t say that it tastes exactly like the Special Dark choco candy, but it’s definitely closer than the regular syrup is.

This would be very good for other purposes that call for choco syrup, like baking, topping ice cream, making candy or cheesecake, and so on, if you want a richer flavor. Will probably also go good with protein powders to make them palatable. The cloying “dairyness” of whey protein in particular will probably be cut a bit by using this more intense syrup, and it might even disguise the less-pleasant-than-chocolate kind of bitterness that casein powder has, as well as the excessively vegetal tastes of various vegan powders.

I am surprised how much I love this product! A corporate product! But it is delicious!

Try a bit on your cappuccino. Take it with a bite of banana to help the medicine go down. Instant s’mores. PB & C sandwiches. I need another bottle to sample snacks with popcorn during the late night show.