Use 1 ounce of carob chips for every 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder the recipe calls for. Because they add sugar and fat, omit 1 tablespoon of butter, shortening, or oil from your recipe.

This cake was dark, moist but fluffy, and so chocolatey. How could the cake taste so intensely of chocolate with just cocoa ...

Trust us on this one: For this inventive special-occasion recipe, Andrea Nguyen gives the steaks a mildly spicy cocoa rub and finishes them with a luxurious pan sauce of butter, cocoa, and red wine.

(Cocoa butter has a melting point of 37C/99F ... There are hundreds of chocolate cake recipes and variations, including the classic Black Forest gâteau, the Austrian truffle cake Sachertorte ...