Green & Black's Cocoa Powder

So, I love chocolate; well, who doesn't? I also love baking, so it goes to figure that I might just need to make chocolate cakes. Darn, there goes the diet again! I already have a bit of a crush on Green and Blacks chocolate so I was pretty chuffed to discover they have brought out a new baking range, which includes cocoa powder. In addition there is also a recipe book (which I need to get my hands on!) and a 'baking' chocolate, 72% cocoa solids. The cocoa powder is organic and is importantly fair trade certified. This is actually 100% cocoa powder; no unrequited extras here. http://greenandblacks.com/uk/what-we-make/home-use/cocoa-powder.html You ...  Read the complete review

One thing I always save enough Weight Watchers points for is a decent mug of hot chocolate at the end of the evening, especially in this cold weather we're having. One I adore is Green & Blacks Cocoa which is made in the traditional way with hot milk and perhaps a spoon of sugar to really round off a delicious mug of hot chocolate. I use it mainly for my nightly hot chocolate, but have successfully baked with it and made chocolate sauce or added it to icing sugar to create a quick chocolate icing to top digestive biscuits or fairy cakes. The powder has a rich and rounded chocolate flavour, somewhat bitter because it has such a high cocoa ...  Read the complete review

I quite enjoy the odd bit of baking at home, and nowadays Harry likes to help me stir the cake mixtures as well! I've been making fairy cakes since I was little with my mum, and I've recently experimented with making some chocolate fairy cakes. I tried a Tesco cocoa powder which was disgusting, so I moved onto my mum's old favourite cocoa powder, and they were absolutely delicious! The cocoa powder that I tried was Green & Black's Organic Cocoa Powder. The company is probably best known for their Organic chocolate which can be found in most shops these days, but they have been branching out producing some cooking products, easter eggs and various other ...  Read the complete review