It may be okay...depending on the recipie. Say you're making chocolate icing. It would probably be fine...but just to be sure you should test it first. Use a small amount of each ingredient, taste it and make sure it tastes allright. In my opinion, making something like chocolate cookies, you would probably have to use semi sweet chocolate {if it was called for, as asked} or the recipie wouldn't turn out right.
no. sadly u can't. the reason why is they both have different tastes. the cocoa powder is bland and the hot chocolate powder tastes like hot cocoa. and hot cocoa powder is commonly more used for that sweet brown liquid u drink, more formorally known as hot cocoa.
Yes
Usually yes. Some recipes specify "baking" cocoa powder just so that nobody gets confused and uses "drinking chocolate mix" instead (since this contains sugar and milk powder which would throw off the recipe).
It is cocoa beans that have been harvested and roasted and then ground into a very thin, pure powder called cocoa powder. It is almost always unsweetened.
Cocoa powder.
Yes you can substitute Drinking Chocolate for Cocoa Powder in cakes and puddings just remember to add a little less sugar than the recipe asks for as the Drinking Chocolate is sweetened .... Another tip in making Chocolate Sponges/Cakes/Muffins is to replace the milk with Chocolate flavoured milk or even Banana or Strawberry milk
You can't unless they are melted. If you need to melt chocolate chips, you need to use cocoa powder, butter and sugar. Every ounce of chocolate can be replaced by 3 TBLS of Cocoa Powder (unsweetened) and 1 TBL of Butter and 3 TBLS of Sugar
cocoa powder/chocolate
When cocoa butter is pressed out of chocolate, cocoa powder is left.
Chocolate is coloured with cocoa powder
The cocoa beans are separated into their differnt contents, most important in this case the cocoa butter and the cocoa powder. The cocoa powder is what holds the brown color. Leave the cocoa powder out of the mix, and you get white chocolate.
You can use melted chocolate instead, there are many website which contain recipes for chocolate treats using melted chocolate instead of cocoa powder. It also tastes nicer too! :) hope it helps x