Blooming cocoa powder
You see it all the time in recipes for brownies, chocolate cakes, and pretty much anything else with cocoa powder: the instruction to pour boiling water (or sometimes coffee, or even red wine) over the cocoa powder to “bloom” it….
Cocoa powder and cookies
Cocoa powder holds a special place in my heart as the ingredient that got me into food science. During my senior year of college, I wanted to pursue research in food science but my school didn’t have any faculty in…
