Van Houten - Cocoa Powder 1kg - Robust Red Cameroon

The orignal dutched cocoa created from the finest selection of highly alkalised origin cocoa beans. This Robust Red Cameroon Cocoa has a stunning dark red colour, a full-bodied, intensely chocolate taste and pleasant mouthfeel with strong bitter notes and smokey hints. The very fine texture of this cocoa powder means it is very soluble, ideal for dough mix, batters and liquids.  It is ideal for flavouring, colouring and decorating gelato & sorbet, mousses, cakes, brownies and muffins, glazing and sauces, cookies and also hot drinks. Contains 1kg. and made from alkalized cocoa powder. 20-22% cocoa butter content. 

Ingredients: cocoa powder, acidity regulator: E501i.

This product is: Kosher certified, suited for vegetarians, suited for vegans.

A bit of history about the Original dutched cocoa method and the man behind it.

Van Houten was a Dutch chemist, and in 1828 he invented a method to press cocoa. By pressing it with Alkali Van Houten separated the cocoa butter, making the matter soften up enough to produce cocoa powder. This dutching process made chocolate highly digestible which was unlike the current chocolate known at that time. This resulted in opening up a whole new market for chocolate and Van Houtens’ vision of making the rich taste of cocoa accessible to everyone, was the very beginning of chocolate mass production.