Ghirardelli, Dutch Process Cocoa, 8 Ounce

If you really love your chocolate this is the one to buy.The rich flavor gets me rave reviews for anything I make with it.My family never gets enough of my homemade hot cocoa or fudge.

One of the best powdered cocoas you can get. It rivals speciality high end products such as Valrhona that cost 3 times as much. Slightly cheaper here than at my local grocery so I use it as an add on to reach my 5 Subscribe and Save items and get maximum discount on all. Makes a great Chocolate sugar cookie. Blend 1c unsalted butter 1.5c sugar 1 egg 2 tsp vanilla, then sift together and add 1.5c flour, a generous half cup Cocoa, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, half tsp salt. Mix until combined, do not over mix. Refrigerate dough for 24-48 hours for best results before baking. Roll into balls, roll ball of dough in granulated sugar and bake on parchment or non-stick sheet or mat at 350F. Baking time between 10-18 min depending on size cookie you make. These are particularly great when made very large with about 3+oz dough per cookie, but still fine when made tiny(just be sure not to over bake if small). Best when baked with dough chilled and do not flatten dough balls at all on sheet. You may have to let dough warm a bit to make balls which is fine, but putting them back in fridge or even freezer for 5 min before baking makes for a better cookie if you have the time. If you don't have the time or just cannot wait, these still come out great if you bake right after mixing at close to room temp. I generally make a few cookies right away then keep dough in fridge and bake 5-8 cookies at a time whenever I want a few. If you do this, you'll see that they get better and better and reach a peak when baked after the dough has been refrigerated about 72 hours. Substitute coconut oil for the butter and add a half tsp of almond oil to make what I call my "Mounds Bar" Sugar Cookie. These are best when baked until they are crisp at the edges but still moderately soft and "bendy" in the center. The flavor and quality of the Ghiradelli chocolate really shines through in this simple style sugar cookie.I want some now, but have no more dough left in fridge, but I did just receive a new bag of cocoa from Amazon yesterday...Pics of sugar cookies described above, Rigo Jancsi cake and chocolate biscotti.

- This is *not* "Dutch Process" cocoa, or at least, hasn't been, and hopefully will never be! That matters because the "Dutch process" removes the good antioxidants. In my opinion, it also removes the richness of the flavor, not a good thing in my personal opinion ;)- I really REALLY like Ghirardelli cocoa, because it has the richest flavor for its reasonable price-point. (The same is true of their baking and their sweetened chocolate, but this review is supposed to be for the cocoa, LOL!) The Ghirardelli cocoa always has a nice, silky texture, great aroma, rich flavor, and excellent blendability. You have to pay *much* more to get superior cocoa, if you can even find it.- The cocoa I ordered also seems to be more fresh than what the local grocery tends to sell. And I don't have to drive all over finding a grocery which actually has it in stock....- I *am* a bit up-and-down regarding these new "pouches" but only because they aren't recycleable locally - the other containers were. But the cocoa *does* keep very well in them, and they *do* re-seal tightly (it's a kind of "zip" type seal), so the packaging does certainly do what it's intended to do - I only wish I could recycle them. For now, I've started washing them out and "repurposing" them, because they're very *sturdy*, that's for sure, and do seal tightly.

Best chocolate out there. Candy or Cocoa, it's the best!

Great product, wonderful for baking. Lots for the money and beautiful taste and color. Makes wonderful cakes from scratch.

Why not put it in a tin? Every time you open and close the plastic bag a cloud of cocoa billows out. It is easier to scoop cocoa from a tin with a spoon

Delicious cocoa . Richer flavor than any I’ve tried .

It is Deliciously smooth & refreshing. It’s what I expected.