Customer Reviews

Cacao Barry Cocoa Powder - Extra Dark

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

A while back I went on a quest to find the best cocoa powder, and the Cacao Barry Extra Brut won hands-down. It has a very deep, rich chocolate flavor, without any off-notes or bitterness. Despite what you may read elsewhere, this dutch-process cocoa actually has a stronger chocolate flavor than the natural cocoa powders I have tried, so it is a good substitute for them. I recommend it for any baking or cooking recipes.

I have used this baking cocoa powder for five years. It is amazing how it changed a family brownie recipe. It makes them taste deeper, richer and somehow more moist. When we opened a bakery, the Snickers Brownies and the Death by Chocolate Brownies sell out with in fifteen minutes of opening every time. We will never go back to the other stuff.

I'm still trying to find a Dutch processed cocoa as rich and flavorful as the no longer available Hershey's European Cocoa (Silver Label) which was cheap in comparison to some of the other Dutch processed cocoas I've tried since.

This is MUCH better than Droste (which, in my opinion, is tasteless)-
It is better than Penzys, slightly better than Double-Dutch Dark from King Arthur, but not as good as Bensdorp.

It's brutishly flavorful and I've kept a stash for years for preparing chocolate sorbet, frosting, anything that requires cocoa. Store in an airtight container in the cupboard.

This is wonderful cocoa! It has a smooth and rich chocolate flavor. Beautiful dark, reddish brown color. It's the best (and the only cocoa I'll ever use)for coating chocolate truffles. It gives them a gorgeous velvet appearance and is nice when eaten, no bitter or dry feeling in the mouth. Also great to bake with. Makes great brownies, cakes and ice cream. Fantastic!

Delicious! This is such rich, smooth chocolate. I've been using it to make hot chocolate, but I can't wait to bake with it. I'll never buy cocoa from the supermarket again.

This cocoa has a wonderful, deep chocolate coloring, and flavor to match! It's been worth the extra cost to have this cocoa on my pantry shelf!

Much darker, and far more chocolatey than any run-of-the-mill supermarket cocoa. This cocoa makes even Ghirardelli seem like a store brand. If you love chocolate, try this in your favorite recipe and it will only get better. As I recall, however, shipping was not reasonable.

I'm not impressed by this cocoa powder, wish I could return it because I don't intend to use it. It's got an off vegetable scent, like the cheaper cocoas, not rich and warming and chocolatey. Out of the package, it has a back note scent of dishwater, it's the only reference I can make, sorry! I've tried ghiradelli, and this is similar to the cheap taste of it. I'm sticking with vahlrona. I baked a cake with this powder, and it had very little flavor, just bitter with a slight scent of chocolate. I gave it two stars, because it is better than Hershey's, ghiradelli, and the other supermarket brands, but, still, why waste time baking and cooking with it if it's going to taste only slightly different.