cocoa powder

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   the powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream

   Broaderchocolate

   NarrowerDutch-processed cocoa

Questions about cocoa powder

What does cocoa powder mean?

cocoa powder means "the powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream".

Is cocoa powder a common word?

cocoa powder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.