Unsweetened Cocoa Powder and Baking Soda Replace the Dutch-processed cocoa powder called for in your recipe with an equal amount of unsweetened cocoa powder. Then, knock back the acidity by adding 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda for every 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder used.

If you want to make pudding, ice cream, chocolate sauce or no-bake cookies, and your recipe calls for Dutch-process cocoa, just swap in an equal amount of natural unsweetened cocoa or carob powder (if you’re avoiding chocolate).

Regular cocoa is intense and full flavored; it’s also somewhat acidic. Dutch-processed cocoa (also called Dutched or European-style) is treated with an alkali to neutralize its acidity. The treatment process, invented by a Dutchman in 1828, smoothes and mellows the cocoa’s flavor and darkens its color.

Cocoa is a pure unsweetened powder made by extracting much of the cocoa butter from the chocolate mass. Fry’s Cocoa is an example of Dutch processed cocoa. In contrast, a non alkalized cocoa, such as Hershey’s, is also unsweetened, but because it has not been Dutch processed, it still contains cocoa’s natural acids.

To figure out if a cocoa powder is Dutch processed or natural, look out for the words “Dutched,” “cocoa processed with alkali,” “alkalized,’ or “European style” on the packaging, which would mean it’s Dutch process.

Suitable for vegetarians. Free from artificial flavorings, colorings and preservatives. Fairtrade cocoa powder. Processed with Alkali.

Questions & Answers on Cocoa Powder

Cadbury Cocoa is very versatile in the sense that you may use it any which way you like. For those of you who do not like sweetened milk like chocolate milk, the choice is Cadbury Cocoa. Children do not care for it…but Cadbury Cocoa has a strong cocoa flavor which will definitely find favour with cocoa lovers.