Coop's Vegan Hot Fudge Sauce 10.6 OZ - Gluten Free Vegan, Kosher, Non GMO, Gourmet, All Natural, Plant Based Dairy Free Whipped Topping for ICecream, Sundae, Panckaes, Milshake and more

[UPDATE to my 4-year-old review, below!] Hello, it is I again -- Amy of the Long Verbose Reviews. I'm just here to say that after trying to stay on a Zero Spending Plan over course of the pandemic, I could deny myself treats no longer, and during Amazon Prime Days two weeks ago, I let myself order another jar of my beloved Coop's Vegan Hot Fudge. I can't even tell you how much I'd been dying for a jar, my friends. So much. So very very much. And lo! The jar arrived! And I consumed it in...like...three days. :) Oh my god, I think Coop's Vegan Hot Fudge is seriously my favorite food product in the known and unknown universe. It is so incredible, it's mind blowing. Even WITH a few crystallized sugar chunks, which seem to always be there, it is wonderful. It heats well. It's dense and decadent, but not overly sweet or cloying...there's no artificial undertone of any kind...I've read the reviews here that are critical, and they make my heart hurt, because I can't understand how anyone could not love this fudge, so I wanted to just chime in this one last time and grab any skeptical doubters, and nudge them towards the fudge. Nudge nudge. Buy some Coop's. The end. [UPDATE to my original review, below: Coop's MicroCreamery was incredibly kind and generous, and sent me replacement jars of Vegan Fudge Sauce to compensate for the aged jar I'd originally been shipped. The fresh jars are as fantastic as ever -- truly, there's nothing else like this stuff. Thus, I'm upping the stars to 5 to reflect customer service. Thanks, Coop's!] I'd discovered this vegan hot fudge sauce at a high-end, locally-sourced, artisan, organic, cage-free hipster grocery store, and loved it -- it tastes exactly like real hot fudge; you'd never know it was non-dairy. So, of course, as with all new products that I find, and fall in love with, and can actually eat because they're free of the 287 things I'm allergic to (gluten, dairy, corn, eggs, soy, rice, sesame, pinecones, hydrogen, helium, wigs, rowboats, Steely Dan, the letter "f" the number 9, etc), as soon as I'd bought a jar or two of Coop's Hot Fudge, the organic, cage-free hipster grocery store immediately stopped selling it, and shows no signs of stocking it again. I went through the five stages of grief, and then decided I'd try to buy the vegan fudge sauce online. Which I did, this past week, for not all that much more money than what the grocery store charged. This mail order jar still tastes good. But the TEXTURE is AWFUL. My theory is, this was maybe the very last jar on the very farthest back, dusty, cobwebbed shelf in the company's secondary or thirdledary warehouse in Outer Mongolia, which was actually meant to be a secret bunker for the Coop's employees in case of armageddon or The Rapture, but which they'd kept a few items in, but hadn't accessed or inventoried since about 1976 -- until I unwittingly placed my order, and said employees realized they'd run out of vegan fudge at all other storehouses. The fudge in the jar is a slightly uneven color this time around, and it has big chunks of crystallized sugar or....whatever crystallizes in fudge sauce, in it. The chunks are so hard and rocky I can't get my spoon around them. If you told me this was a jar of chocolate-covered diamonds, I'd believe you. (WAIT! COULD IT BE...?) (No.) . I'm a tiny bit nervous about whether I should be eating this fudge sauce at all, but I guess that ship has sailed. Anyway, kind of a disappointing experience over here, especially since I've never found another vegan fudge sauce this delicious, and because the lack of available jars and need to visit the Outer Mongolia Bunker just doesn't seem to bode well for...well, anything, these days.

Very good. Kind of hard to open the jar, though.

VERY tasty, both flavors, fudge and caramel are outstanding!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Even Better Than Trader Joe’s! This salted caramel sauce is incredible — honestly even better than the one from Trader Joe’s! It has the perfect balance of rich, buttery sweetness with just the right amount of salt. I used it to make a salted caramel buttercream for my macarons, and they turned out amazing. The texture is smooth and velvety, and it mixes beautifully into frosting without separating or getting grainy. It’s become a staple in my kitchen — I’ll definitely be reordering!

The gimmicky packaging (dripping chocolate plastic lid cover) makes it impossible to tell if your product is safely sealed. I popped the lid off just by pulling upward, no twisting, and observed no vacuum release. There is no safety seal or other protective layer. The fudge inside had a small divot it in and there is no way to tell if this was a normal product characteristic or the result of something else. I'd rather have no silly lid and an obviously sealed jar. This went directly in the trash, to be extra safe.

Love it, but it cost waaayyyy too much. Keep a jar in the fridge next to the lesser priced hot fudge just to tempt me from time to time. It makes no sense how much this item currently costs. Is it just because it has "cold brew" in the name? Gimmicky marketing. It used to be a fraction of the price not long ago. It's just the right amount of fudginess and is smooth and creamy.

Delicious fudge topping for cake or ice cream.

Delicious on desserts, especially as topping for cheesecake.