Black Cocoa Powder for Baking (1 lb) – Dutch Processed Dark Cocoa Powder, Alkalized, Unsweetened Chocolate Flavor | Natural Food Coloring Substitute | Vegan, Gluten & Sugar-Free, Keto Friendly

I am an avid baker who has been baking for over half a century. My husband loves dark chocolate, so I love to soothe his sweet tooth...lol. The Cocoa Trader got several good reviews so I thought I would give it a whirl. I stumbled across a truly decadent Midnight Black Chocolate cake recipe with Black buttercream frosting. The recipe itself was in need of tweaking only where volume is concerned. The taste, moistness, color & flavor was spot on!!! Many people were complaining about being able to achieve a truly black chocolate cake & frosting. The Cocoa Trader came through with flying colors!!! The frosting needed to be tweaked for volume & a little tweaking for the black color, but again, it passed mustard! I am truly happy with my purchase & although this product is pricy it's worth it's weight in gold. I highly recommend buying this product. You won't regret it.

First time purchasing the black cocoa powder and worked great. Gave me the black icing I was wanting and it tasted good also. Thank you!

Excellent quality, mixes well, perfect appearance it is definitely is the darkest black cocoa, I have ever used! This has a delicious smell and taste of a red velvet chocolate cake. The cupcakes and buttercream frosting I'm making are going to be a hit at the Halloween Party.

This made the perfect black cake and icing. Halloween cake was beautiful. No bitter taste. I’ll buy again.

If you are “Cocoa Illiterate” like me somewhat— You need to do some SERIOUS study with this particular Black Cocoa or ANY Black Cocoa Powder that is dark as this—using the naked eye. If you do not believe me, go on Google or go on YouTube and search for black cocoa and you will see ‘visibly’ what comes up is NOWHERE as JET black—as this. Yet it will most likely still be labeled—Black Cocoa. THIS...(that I’m reviewing) would definitely be the BRUTE of a an excellent glass Champagne. When I first tasted Brute Champagne...lest just say NOT what I thought...till I matured. This stuff here—is seriously powdered “Kingsford” charcoal in color and that color means something if you are considerIng swapping this here ‘cup for cup’ —in your favorite chocolate cake recipe. WORD OF CAUTION...DO NOT. Just....don’t. I KNOW how to bake and I sell cakes. I am not however, scientific with reactions and results. I used a recipe calling for 1 2/3 cups of ‘black cocoa powder’. She stated it was a recipe for a ‘wedding cake’ and it looked moist...beautiful. Black. I wanted that. And I wanted it for not a wedding cake but the amount of cake itself it would yield for what I was doing. Suffice to say—she may have used (for all I know) Hersheys Special Dark because her recipe (even her comments before the recipe) did not mention anything on WHAT she used. To be honest when most people bake and say they used BC powder, it is more likely it is Hershey’s SD because it does produce a ‘dark’ cake. Now don’t get me wrong I DO love me some H S/D. But I wanted BLACK. So here’s what I’ve learned after using this BRUTE BCP. The blacker the Cocoa...the more ‘dutched’. The more dutched means less acidic due to high treatment of Alkaline which from what I understand (AFTER the fact of using—still good) the TEXTURE and height—WILL BE affected and THAT... IS CRUCIAL. So ‘cut’ your cups used. If the recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of cocoa powder and you want to use black—use 1 cup of cocoa powder and test with 1/2 cup of THIS brand— black. And that is what I used in my most favorite chocolate cake recipe however....While the results was better than the cup for cup swap out that this other recipe call for— I think next time I will use a ratio of : 1 1/4 cup cocoa powder + 1/4 of this Beautiful yet dangerous (if you don’t know what your doing) ....Jet Black Cocoa Powder. Good Stuff. And one more thing. Someone said on here that the package says “not for taste” or something of that effect....that is true. This level of Cocoa does not have a distinct chocolate flavor but a ‘note’. That is because of the processing of it being HIGHLY Dutch. It is or would be best for color but it does add a good earthy chocolate NOTE in flavor. I hope all of that made sense because I really think this is an excellent, diamond rated Cocoa Black. But to avoid giving an unfair rating—know what your doing with this Black Cocoa because you maybe expecting something that is just not going to happen with it depending on what may be.

It is a very rich, black double Dutch chocolate that goes well in baked goods and hot chocolate.

I bought this black cocoa to make black cocoa cupcakes filled with cheesecake for my birthday. I also use sit to make black buttercream frosting which I swirled with cream cheese frosting. Let me tell you, the cupcakes were freaking fantastic. This cocoa is delicious and easy to work with. Since making the cupcakes, I've also made black chocolate brownies, which were so delicious and decadent. I highly recommend this cocoa powder specifically if you want to bake with black cocoa. Just remember that baking with black cocoa is different than baking with Dutch process cocoa. You'll need different ingredients to make your baked goods come out properly. Look for recipes specifically for black cocoa powder, and you'll be fine. Oh, and for those wondering what it tastes like: Black cocoa tastes like Oreo cookie wafers. (Oreo uses black cocoa in their cookie wafers.) It's a different taste to milk chocolate or regular dark chocolate, but just as decadent.

Love this! Mt cookie icing was black! I am never going to use black food coloring on my cookies again! It does have a slight taste of dark coco but it’s very mild. I dissolved in boiling water before adding to my royal icing. I used 1 tbsp of coco to 1/2 tbsp boil water then added a little more water until I got a loose paste. Then added to my prepared a small amount stiff royal icing until I got the black color I wanted. I added warm water to the icing to get my flood consistency I wanted. I also used it to make black brownies.. whoa! Rich! They were amazing! The flavor was super decadent and rich! You need vanilla ice cream to balance but absolutely wonderful!