The Cocoa Trader Dutch Processed Brown Cocoa Powder - All Natural Alkalized Unsweetened Cocoa with Smooth Mellow Flavor - Use in Baked Goods, Coffee, Smoothies, and Shakes - 1 LB

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.

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.

Recommended by a fellow baker who does tons of test baking. Quality and texture and darkness of the cocoa is amazing.

If i could give it a billion stars I would, this cocoa is amazing it taste delicious and it turns soooo black with out dyes. yes a for ever customer now.

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!

Like the product. Gives the effect without the dye. No color stains. Heated it as used in a ganache, left a unusual bitter, taste not Oreo taste. Taste was perfect before heating. I would still use it as it eliminates the use of dyes and after taste of bitterness in using food coloring, just as a regular frosting.

With this one you are definitely paying for what you get. It smells and tastes like ores. It bakes great in cakes for that black color. Perfect size that goes a long way.

Great product! It works great with buttercream, it makes it really dark, you only need to add a little bit. This isn’t cocoa powder for flavor wise, you need to add your sugar.