Ingredient

Cocoa powder

Also called cocoa, cacao and cocoa solids

Cocoa powder is made from cocoa beans that are extracted, ground, and roasted. Cooks use it in baking, pairing it with sodium bicarbonate.

Made from: Cocoa bean
Part used: Seed
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Italy
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: blair · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cocoa powder

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake

Goes well with

sodium bicarbonate

Shopping

Choosing and storing cocoa powder

Sold as: Powder

On the table

Dishes made with cocoa powder

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Rufioi
Italy

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cocoa powder.

Family

Related forms

Made from: cocoa bean (extracted, ground, roasted)

Around the world

What cocoa powder is called

Names in 52 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
cacao en polvo · Chocolate en polvo · Polvo de cacao
French
cacao en poudre · cacao · poudre de cacao
Italian
cacao in polvere · cacao · polvere di cacao · polvere di semi di cacao
Portuguese
cacau em pó · Chocolate em pó
German
Kakaopulver · Kakao
Dutch
cacaopoeder
Greek
σκόνη κακάο · κακάο
Turkish
Kakao tozu
Russian
какао-порошок
Polish
Proszek kakaowy
Arabic
مسحوق الكاكاو
Persian
پودر کاکائو

Show all 52 languages

Azerbaijani
Kakao tozu
Bashkir
какао онтағы
Basque
kakao hauts · kakao · kakao-hauts
Belarusian
какава-парашок
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
какава-парашок
Bislama
Kakao
Bosnian
Kakao
Bulgarian
Какао
Cantonese
唂咕粉
Catalan
cacau en pols · Xocolata en pols
Chinese
可可粉 · 固態可可
Czech
kakao · kakaový prášek · kakaová sušina
Danish
kakaopulver
Esperanto
kakaopulvoro · kakapulvoro
Estonian
kakaopulber
Finnish
kaakaojauhe
Galician
cacao en po
Hebrew
אבקת קקאו
Hungarian
kakaópor
Inari Sami
kaakaopulver
Indonesian
Kakao padat
Irish
púdar cócó
Japanese
ココアパウダー · ブロマプロセス · ブロマ・プロセス · ダッチプロセス
Javanese
Woh Kakao
Korean
코코아 가루
Latin
pulvis cacaoneus
Lithuanian
Kakavos milteliai
Low Saxon
kakoupouder
Malay
Pepejal koko
Minangkabau
Cokelat bubuak
Norwegian Bokmål
kakaopulver
Norwegian Nynorsk
kakaopulver
Romanian
pudră de cacao · solide de cacao · cacao
Sicilian
Cacau
Simplified Chinese
可可粉
Slovenian
kakavov prah
Swahili
Kakao
Swedish
kakaopulver · kakaotorrsubstans
Tibetan
སྦྲིད་རིལ།
Traditional Chinese
可可粉
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
可可粉
Ukrainian
какао-порошок
Vietnamese
cacao khối
Welsh
Powdr coco · powdr coco · Powdr cocao · Powdwr coco

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1062396

Photos

Photo: blair · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons