The Most Overlooked Baking Ingredient? | What’s Eating Dan?

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Dan Souza explains why cocoa powder is a crucial baking ingredient, but is often overlooked. He shows how Dutch-processed, high-fat cocoa creates richer flavor and moister texture than natural or low-fat varieties. Using our hugely popular recipe for chocolate crinkle cookies, Dan highlights how cocoa’s pH and starch content dramatically affects baked goods. The cookies are perfectly fudgy, deeply chocolaty, and almost too good to share.

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