Trader Joe's Chocolate Whipped Light Cream

Betwixtmas. Dead Week. It's that special time between Christmas and New Year's when nobody knows what day it is or what they're supposed to be doing or why they feel so perpetually full and distended. Good time for a review of what's essentially chocolate pudding that sprays out of a can. But it's LIGHT chocolate pudding in a can. You know, to get you prepped for all those resolutions you'll be starting next week.

And that's what it tastes like: chocolate pudding. It's kind of in between what I'd consider full calorie chocolate pudding and "diet" chocolate pudding. It has sugar in it but not like a ton of sugar. It's sweet and chocolatey but not particularly rich.

We tried it on strawberry pancakes. We tried it on gingerbread ice cream sandwiches. We tried it on top of a mug of steaming hot chocolate with marshmallows. It's a thumbs up in every case.

It comes out fluffy and airy. The pic above is when we made our gingerbread man look like Marge Simpson. Yes, you can get it to stack pretty high, particularly when you make a little spiral motion as you dispense the cream out of the can. Hooray for the structural integrity of light whipped cream.

It's a nice tannish brown color. Looks and smells chocolatey. It took us a while to finish the whole can even though we were eating it pretty regularly with desserts and I was secretly sneaking shots of it directly into my mouth throughout the whole past month. 

$4.49 for the can. Kosher. Keep refrigerated. I wasn't sure if the price is a good value or not. Sonia says it is because not only is the cost comparable to other canned whipped creams, but most of the main ingredients are decent like cream, skim milk, and sugar rather than hydrogenated oils and HFCS. We took a look at the product during our video review of the strawberry pancake mix. I have the video cued up to the part where we briefly analyze and score this product, so go ahead and take a looksee.

Bottom line: 7.5 out of 10.