Van Houten Cocoa Powder Yellow Tin 460g

Lovely soft, creamy, delightful cocoa powder. No harsh bitterness at all. I make it with whole milk, two heaped spoons of powder, and a capful of Monin salted caramel syrup. It's so luxurious. My sister came over the other week, and agreed it was lovely. I ran out of it a few days back and gave the much vaunted Valrhona a try. Although it had a very strong chocolatey taste, and lingering aftertaste, it just didn't have the same luxurious mouthfeel. I might buy another tin of Van Houten and try a spoon of each to see if I get something approaching the best of both worlds (decadent, I know! lol) The Valrhona is over twice the price but only needs one spoonful for a good flavour delivery. However, even with two spoonfuls it doesn't feel as luxurious. If you're a big cocoa drinker then the price is kind of high. And the Valrhona is too high priced for me as a regular drink. But as a treat once a day it's fine. You feel like you're drinking a premium product. The Van Houten doesn't dissolve as well/completely as the Valrhona though, so can leave a little sediment in the bottom. I also tried the new Starbucks cocoa this week. It's sweetened with sugar, so is actually a chocolate drink, but whatever, it's thin and watery compared to the Van Houten's, or the Valrhona for that matter. You are getting what you pay for imho, and as the Starbucks is £4.99 for 130gm less than the Van Houten's, the difference is price is nowhere near representative of the difference in quality: Van Houten's being way better. Hope this rather unstructured and hurried (it's bedtime!) review was helpful anyway.

I love this cocoa powder. I love the vintage looking metal container it is in. When there is no more cocoa left the beautiful tins with metals top lid will be put to good use. I bought three of these. It is more expensive than if bought in a plastic container but I can use the gorgeous tins the cocoa came and the taste is the best I have tried so I consider it good value.

I love this. We actually use it to make chocolate ice cream as well as a hot cocoa. We use a no churn recipe (add to condensed milk and cream) Mix /whip it up and we put it in an Ice cream freezer bowl to churn (not necessary) then freeze. The best ice cream. Can add vanilla or chocolate chips. But it’s lovely. Always have this in the cupboard. Winter brings in the cocoa!!

Bought some of this last year on holiday & we thought it was the nicest cocoa we'd ever had. I've bought various other brands locally (luxury to bog standard) but we'd given up having cocoa as none were nearly as good as this....and then I thought I'd have a look on Amazon and sure enough, there it was! I prefer dark chocolate and this certainly ticks the boxes.It's really chocolatey, very smooth and leaves no nasty after-taste. The tin's very nice as well. I don't know if refills are available but would prefer to buy that way & re-use the tin rather than buy a tin each time & then have to try & think of a use for it (too nice to send to recycling!).

I've used both the Van Houten cocoa powder and the Equal Exchange Organic Hispaniola Cocoa powder for some months now, and find them to both be equally good cocoa. The Equal Exchange can also be purchased on Amazon Equal Exchange Fairtrade Organic Hispaniola Cocoa Powder 250 g (Pack of 2) for about the same price per kg as the Van Houten. They are both quality cocoa powders, the difference between them is that the Van Houten is slightly darker and slightly more bitter than the Equal Exchange and this difference is evident in both the colour of the cocoa powder and the smell. So really it depends what kind of flavour you like your cocoa to have - dark and bitter, or lighter and sweeter. However the difference is barely noticeable when used to make hot drinks in my view. The advantage of the Van Houten is that it is made using the 'Dutch' process (check this out on Google) and you get a nice tin (always useful for storage afterwards). The disadvantage (if this sort of thing matters to you) is that Van Houten are now a large manufacturing company and no longer the small family business it once was. I do also wonder about the cost of the nice tin - both in terms of the price of the product and to ecological matters (if that is important to you). The advantage of the Equal Exchange is that it is organic and a fair trade product (the cocoa is grown by small farmers in the Dominican Republic), and the packaging is simpler although not particularly reusable being made mostly of cardboard.

Nothing compares to it. I’ve been buying it for years now and will keep on buying it for the rest of my life .

This is my favourite cocoa powder coming from Holland. It has a higher cocoa content. You can taste the difference in flavour. You do not need as much as English Cocoa powder and is a darker Richer flavour, I would strongly recommend treating yourself to it

I have always heard that dutched Coco worked best for Red Velvet cakes. It helps to really make the cakes red. I have bought many different Coco Powders in the past and I have to admit they still made my Red Velvet cakes a tad too dark, this really is the best of all of them so far. My cakes now come out a vibrant red, with a smooth hint of chocolate. Sometimes my Red Velvet would taste slightly bitter from the red colouring, but now I cut back on the colouring, because of how effective the Coco is at brightening the red. Lovely taste, not lumpy, worth the money. Would definitely recommend.

Je suis très contente de cet achat. J'avais la même boîte que celle-ci il y a très longtemps. Elle est pleine de bon cacao pas sucré (très bon produit et pas amer). Enfant, mon grand père me le préparait. De plus, très joli pour décorer la cuisine et mieux que les produits en boîtes carton que l'on peut renverser... Je recommande vivement ce cacao sain, sans sucre, avec de la VRAIE poudre de cacao...et pas de "graisse de cacao".

Cute tin, but more important is the contents. This cocoa is a dark color, richly flavored, and a very fine texture. The VanHouten cocoa is a dark red-brown with a more pure cocoa flavor - sweetly bitter but not harsh. This item also arrived almost two weeks faster than promised. All around, I prefer this to the Hershey unsweetened cocoa powder (available through Trader Joe's).

Dies ist meine zweite Dose Kakao von van Houten. (Beim ersten mal gab es Probleme mit stark verbeulter Dose was sich aber dank Amazon schnell und sehr gut gelöst hatte) Der Kakao jedoch schmeckt sehr gut und deshalb haben wir auch wieder diesen Bestellt. Diese Dose kam sehr gut verpackt, schön und sehr schnell bei uns an! Ich finde auch Dosen besser als das ganze Plastik/Karton, was bei den meisten anderen Hersteller angeboten wird. Der Kaba selbst ist ungesüßt und hat einen richtig schokoladigen Geschmack.... man süßt ihn also auch nach eigenem Wunsch. Gerade für Diabetiker, aber auch Menschen die ihren Zuckergehalt reduzieren wollen/müssen, ist dies natürlich perfekt. Wir haben den Kaba auch schon mit Süßstoff gesüßt.... aber dies ist Geschmacksache und uns persönlich schmeckt es mit Süßstoff nicht, deshalb süssen wir mit ganz normalem Zucker. Mir geht es nun nicht darum weniger Zucker zu nehmen, sondern darum einfach einen sehr guten, schokoladigen Geschmack zu erhalten was mit diesem perfekt gelingt. Manche werden wahrscheinlich sagen, ohje soviel Zucker muss ich rein machen das er die süße eines gekauften hat und dessen süße man gewohnt ist/einem schmeckt.... dem soll gesagt sein, das in allen fertigen Kakaopuvern mehr Zucker etc... drin ist als der eigentliche Kaba!!! Also wer denkt er kann/will solchen Kaba nicht nehmen/trinken weil er "vielleicht" sich 4 oder mehr Löffel Zucker in die Tasse machen müsste damit er die süße erreicht - derjenige wird in den fertig gezuckerten Kabasorten 100% noch mehr Zucker in seinem Kaba finden... nur das er ihn nicht selbst reingemacht hat. Dieser Kaba ist zwar auch etwas teurer.... aber er ist wirklich jeden Cent wert !!!

Buonissimo e bella scatola.

Alles gut. Ich fühle mich, wie zu meinen Kindertagen, wenn wir aus dem Westen Deutschlands ein Päckchen bekamen und dort war eine Dose Kakaopulver von Van Houten drin. Vielen Dank.