3 level tablespoons of cocoa powder plus 1 tablespoon of butter or shortening equals 1 square cube of unsweetened baking chocolate.
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.
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
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).
12 oz of cocoa powder!
Yes its the same
The fat, called cocoa butter, is pressed out of chocolates in making cocoa powder.
Cocoa (chocolate) powder is not a substitute for chocolate chips.