I agree on the Ghirardelli Double Chocolate. I bought the syrup version when they were on sale at the grocery store, and I don't think they are as good--the observation about the artificial note to the chocolate is absolutely true.
I will eat any frosting, anywhere, on just about anything. That's the whole reason I eat cake, really.
Lucy, will you be trying the "healthy" mixes like "no pudge fudge"? i'm curious about how it'll stack up!
I always bake the Ghiradeli Triple Chocolate Brownies to take to the cottage and family events. I have a reputation for baking the best brownies... My little secret!
As a rule I prefer homemade over boxed anything. The exception is the Ghiradelli Triple Chocolate Mix from Costco. My sister who buys boxes of everything/anything brought the jumbo box to our vacation house. The entire box makes three or four batches (can't remember) and we had to make the entire box in one night because the first batch disappeared so quickly.
Never tried the Torres stuff. If you have to do all that might as well make it from scratch!
I force my good friend's mom to buy the Ghirardelli Triple Chocolate Mix at Costco for me. It is, by far, the best box brownie out there.
I'm the rare person that doesn't go wild for chocolate so I may be the wrong one to ask, but I bought two Ghirardelli Ultimate Fudge brownie mixes after Christmas for .90 apiece (clearanced after the holidays). I couldn't pass up trying a couple for that price, since my husband is a person who is wild for chocolate and he grew up eating only desserts that start out as a box mix.
There are chocolate chips included in the dry mix and there is a packet of fudge topping that you spread over the top after the goodies are baked. The finished brownies were pretty good, definitely better than other brownie mix brownies I've tasted. They were even better the next day, after the topping had turned nice and gooey. The second mix is still in the pantry and is crying out to be made this weekend. :)
I agree about the artificial note on the Ghirardelli brownies. I tried the turtle version and it had the same note, so I think the mix itself contributes to the artificialness. I much prefer homemade, it's not that much more effort than a box mix and you get so much more flavor.
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