ISO Hershey's Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

I had a Father's Day brunch at my parents house today and my Mom was lamenting the loss of her source for Hershey's unsweetened baking chocolate. Evidently, this is the only baking chocolate she has ever found that is certified both kosher and non-dairy. All of the other kosher brands she has come across have a dairy component to them.

Does anyone know where this particular brand of chocolate is sold?

Not a clue. . .I know I've seen them somewhere, so it must be Demonicks or Jewel.

Not sure where you are or she is located, but what about at one of the Kosher stores? I know I've seen chocolate chips at Hungarian Foods (on Oakton in Skokie, just west of Kedzie, I think). Not sure if I've seen unsweetened chocolate, but if anyone would have another brand that is Kosher (given that you can't find the Hershey's), they would.

Have you considered contacting Hershey's to see where it's sold?
http://www.hersheys.com/contactus/

ViewsAskew wrote:Not a clue. . .I know I've seen them somewhere, so it must be Demonicks or Jewel.

Not sure where you are or she is located, but what about at one of the Kosher stores? I know I've seen chocolate chips at Hungarian Foods (on Oakton in Skokie, just west of Kedzie, I think). Not sure if I've seen unsweetened chocolate, but if anyone would have another brand that is Kosher (given that you can't find the Hershey's), they would.

Yes. It used to be sold at Dominick's or Jewel (that was her local go to place), but isn't anymore. The issue is not necessarily finding kosher baking chocolate, which is pretty widely available. The issue is finding this particular barnd which is the only non-dairy kosher baking chocolate, at least according to my Mother. I'll check at Hungarian, but I'd be surprised if she hadn't already checked there.

I noticed that most cocoa powder is kosher pareve - 3 tbsp of cocoa and 1 tbsp shortening or oil = 1 square(oz) of unsweetened chocolate.

I think I've tried this before, and it does give you a slightly different product, although the chocolate flavor is more pronounced.

How strange that neither sell it anymore. That is like the Kraft mozzarella in bricks - my Italian MIL swears by it (and CI put it on the top of their list, too). But, it's never at the main grocery stores anymore. She finds it at Buteras and other small chains or independent stores. She just found it at Fresh Market or whatever the name is of the place that took over some of the Cub Foods locations. Maybe checking out the Strack and Van Tils and places like that would help. Then again, maybe Hershey doesn't make it anymore...so, the idea of contacting them might be a great first move. I can see me driving all over before finding out it didn't exist

Yeah, kosher chocolate has no real reason to be non-parve because baking often includes dairy. But, I like MHays idea - it's an easy substituion until she can find a source.

I was in a Jewel tonight so I decided to take a look-see. I am guessing that your mom keeps kosher, or she would use one of the other brands as they were all dairy free. They just weren't kosher. I looked in the small-ish kosher section and there were some kosher semi-sweet chocolate chips, but I didn't bother to look to see if they were dairy free since your mom wanted unsweetened.

Walt's in Homewood carries it. There are other Walt's locations, but I don't know if they carry the chocolate.

Funny, because Walt's also carries the Kraft mozzarella! My SIL lives a block from the store, so when my MIL goes there, she buys 5 or 6 of them.

I just looked at my package of Schaffenberger and it says it's kosher. It's non-dairy too. Plus, it's better than Hershey's (IMHO). You can find it at better stocked Dominick's & Jewel and Whole Foods.

figmolly wrote:I just looked at my package of Schaffenberger and it says it's kosher. It's non-dairy too. Plus, it's better than Hershey's (IMHO). You can find it at better stocked Dominick's & Jewel and Whole Foods.

Thanks Molly. I'll have to look into that for her.

I'm kind of surprised that any unsweetened chocolate would have dairy in it, especially the higher end brands. My semisweet, bittersweet, and unsweetened chocolate only has chocolate in various forms, sugar, vanilla, and soya lecithin (which may be egg-derived, but wouldn't have dairy). Milk and white chocolate are the ones I would expect to have dairy included.

Hi,

I was in Target this evening. They had Baker's Chocolate with the pareve symbol on it. I don't know if this is also considered non-dairy as well, but at least it is kosher.

Regards,