talanhart wrote:
I made the Best Easy Chocolate Cake yesterday! I weighed my ingredients and when it came to the Cocoa Powder, I weighed it inside my 1 cup measuring cup. The weight specified by Cooks measured out to 3/4 cup of cocoa and not 1/2 cup. Is there that much difference in Cocoas? I used Hershey's European Cocoa!
Hence the reason weighing is sooooo much better. I think it has to do with how you put the cocoa into the cup. If you spooned it in gently, it is likely that it would have a higher volume. If you had used the "dip and sweep" method, it would have probably been closer to 1/2 cup. I don't think it's the difference in cocoas as much as the difference in how the cocoa was put in the cup. Cocoa will pack down and lose volume very easily.
Speaking of cocoa, I am fond of Penzey's cocoa. I need to do a Penzey's/Trader Joes trip, but at the end of the day I usually just want to get home and don't feel like fighting crosstown traffic. And here I was all excited about being so close to both!