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Reddit mentions of Black Cocoa Powder for Baking- All Natural Alkalized Unsweetened Cocoa for Coloring Agent in Baked Goods - Dutch Processed With Smooth Mellow Flavor - 1 LB, The Cocoa Trader
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We found 4 Reddit mentions of Black Cocoa Powder for Baking- All Natural Alkalized Unsweetened Cocoa for Coloring Agent in Baked Goods - Dutch Processed With Smooth Mellow Flavor - 1 LB, The Cocoa Trader. Here are the top ones.
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| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | 1 Pound (Pack of 1) |
| Weight | 1 Pounds |
Something that might help darken the cupcakes is using black cocoa - it makes for a dramatically dark cake without the risk of food dye flavor coming through! It gives more of a dark chocolate taste though, so do watch out for that. :)
Black cake with black frosting
The Man About Cake episode where I first heard about this magical substance
Food Network Recipe that looks pretty dang tasty
The bottom tiered cake was a vegan chocolate cake recipe I use, even though the rest of the cake is definitely not vegan. It taste incredible, especially if you go the extra mile and get really good cocoa and coffee. Recipe here.
The top cake was just the vanilla cake version of the above recipe, sans the cocoa and coffee, but add in actual vanilla bean.
I made a white chocolate pastry creme for the bottom tiers filling and then added black cocoa powder to the leftover pastry creme and used that on the top tiered vanilla cake.
The frosting was Swiss meringue buttercream. To get that dark sky color I used a combination of royal blue and black Wilton gel food coloring and black cocoa powder from [Amazon]
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K89SKKK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_iaiXDbMAHSWES). The accents were fondant and the moon was white chocolate from a mould for desserts and just dusted with silver edible shimmer.
Note: The black cocoa powder when added to any type of vanilla frosting makes it taste like oreos or cookies n creme.
Amazon.
You can ask the cake decorator to use black cocoa in their buttercream or frosting like I did!
It will appear a deep grey at first but then darken to black over a couple hours. This is the brand I use:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K89SKKK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share