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product_id: 15041592
title: "Black Cocoa Powder for Baking - Unsweetened, Extra Dark, 1 Lb | The Cocoa Trader - Dutch Processed, Alkalized - Natural Jet Black Food Coloring Substitute - Vegan, Gluten-Free, 65 Servings"
brand: "the cocoa trader"
price: "8882 som"
currency: KGS
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
category: "The Cocoa Trader"
url: https://www.desertcart.kg/products/15041592-black-cocoa-powder-for-baking-unsweetened-extra-dark-1-lb
store_origin: KG
region: Kyrgyzstan
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# Extra dark, near-black color Vegan & plant-based 65 servings per 1 lb pack Black Cocoa Powder for Baking - Unsweetened, Extra Dark, 1 Lb | The Cocoa Trader - Dutch Processed, Alkalized - Natural Jet Black Food Coloring Substitute - Vegan, Gluten-Free, 65 Servings

**Brand:** the cocoa trader
**Price:** 8882 som
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚫ Bake Bold. Stand Out. Own the Dark Side.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Black Cocoa Powder for Baking - Unsweetened, Extra Dark, 1 Lb | The Cocoa Trader - Dutch Processed, Alkalized - Natural Jet Black Food Coloring Substitute - Vegan, Gluten-Free, 65 Servings by the cocoa trader
- **How much does it cost?** 8882 som with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kg](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/15041592-black-cocoa-powder-for-baking-unsweetened-extra-dark-1-lb)

## Best For

- the cocoa trader enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted the cocoa trader brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Generous 1-Pound Supply:** Ample quantity to fuel your creative baking projects, delivering 65 servings per pack.
- • **Flavor-Neutral Powerhouse:** Enhances visual appeal without overpowering your recipe’s delicate flavor balance.
- • **True Midnight Black Color:** Transforms baked goods with a dramatic, near-black hue that stands out in any dessert lineup.
- • **Dutch-Processed & Alkalized:** Ensures smooth texture and rich color, elevating your baking from ordinary to extraordinary.
- • **Vegan & Gluten-Free Certified:** Perfectly aligns with clean, conscious eating trends for the modern professional.

## Overview

The Cocoa Trader’s Black Cocoa Powder is an extra dark, Dutch-processed, unsweetened baking essential designed primarily as a powerful natural color agent. Vegan, gluten-free, and plant-based, this 1-pound pack delivers 65 servings of near-black cocoa powder that enhances the visual drama of your baked creations without compromising flavor. Ideal for professionals and home bakers aiming to create striking, sophisticated desserts that command attention.

## Description

desertcart.com : Black Cocoa Powder for Baking - Unsweetened, Extra Dark, 1 Lb | The Cocoa Trader - Dutch Processed, Alkalized - Natural Jet Black Food Coloring Substitute - Vegan, Gluten-Free, 65 Servings : Grocery & Gourmet Food

Review: Best Black Cocoa! - Best tasting black cocoa powder and makes baked goods actually black. Absolutely delicious!
Review: OUTSTANDING TRUE BLACK COCOA!!! - 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.

## Features

- [Designed As A Color Agent, Not Just A Flavor] This extra dark cocoa powder is specifically designed to function as a coloring agent in baked goods - delivering near-black color while keeping the flavor profile mild and non-dominant. Use it where dramatic visual results are needed without overpowering your recipe's intended flavor.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00K89SKKK |
| Best Sellers Rank | #14,529 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ( See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ) #39 in Baking Cocoa |
| Brand | The Cocoa Trader |
| Brand Name | The Cocoa Trader |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 6,328 Reviews |
| Diet Type | Gluten Free, Keto, Paleo, Plant Based, Vegan |
| Flavor | Black |
| Item Form | Powder |
| Item Weight | 1 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | The Cocoa Trader |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Pieces | 1 |
| Protein | 2 Grams |
| Size | 1 Pound (Pack of 1) |
| Specialty | Alkalized, Unsweetened, Dutch Processed, Extra Dark, Black, Plant Based, Vegan, Vegetarian |
| Sweetness Description | Unsweetened |
| UPC | 703610139695 |
| Unit Count | 16 Ounce |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** The Cocoa Trader
- **Flavor:** Black
- **Item Form:** Powder
- **Item Weight:** 1 Pounds
- **Specialty:** Alkalized, Unsweetened, Dutch Processed, Extra Dark, Black, Plant Based, Vegan, Vegetarian

## Images

![Black Cocoa Powder for Baking - Unsweetened, Extra Dark, 1 Lb | The Cocoa Trader - Dutch Processed, Alkalized - Natural Jet Black Food Coloring Substitute - Vegan, Gluten-Free, 65 Servings - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NzUAD9wjL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Should I be using this product to enhance the flavor of my brown cocoa powder, or would an espresso powder work better?**
A: According to the product packaging itself: "It is not typically used for flavor.  Use brown cocoa instead"  Is printed directly on the package, under the nutrition info.  (See product image #6 above.)  It gave my cookies a taste somewhere between "burnt" and "too much baking soda".  Quite dark, though!

**Q: Can you mix this with regular natural cocoa for example 1/4 dutch process with 1/4 cup natural cocoa?**
A: You can, butbfor me, it's way too dark. I just made coffee that way and have icecream going. I'm hoping I didn't waste my ingredients. Next time, I'll be trying a ratio somewhere around 1/8 dark, maybe 1/8 cocao butter, and 6/8 natural chocolate. I'll be eyeballing it in 1/4 cup measuring cups though. Hope this helps someone.

**Q: my recipe calls for dutch processed cocoa will this be to strong?  should I mix a teaspoon of regular cocoa?**
A: Black cocoa is not stronger, it's just darker colored. It also has a slightly different flavor, than cocoa that is lighter colored—but the difference is subtle and it's a good flavor. I don't think there will be any problem. Dutch Processed cocoa is less acid than "natural" cocoa. Both are good, it just depends on what you want. Recipes with Natural Cocoa often add a bit of baking soda to counteract the acidity. This is not necessary if you use Dutch Processed Cocoa.

**Q: Does anyone else's bag have a sticker that says "NOT to be used as a flavor agent...use only to add dark color to bake goods..."?**
A: Mine has that statement but is not a sticker - it is part of the print on the package.  It says that for flavor to "use brown cocoa instead", which seems to strange to me and unexpected.  This make me think that I should return it but perhaps I should try it anyway since many have said that it does have a good flavor (?)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Black Cocoa!
*by M***C on June 26, 2026*

Best tasting black cocoa powder and makes baked goods actually black. Absolutely delicious!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ OUTSTANDING TRUE BLACK COCOA!!!
*by L***D on September 6, 2025*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Take SERIOUS NOTE...
*by T***R on May 4, 2019*

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.

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*Last updated: 2026-07-22*