One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented seed of the cacao tree. Cocoa-free chocolate is already available but scientists around the world ...

Use natural cocoa powder in baking recipes that ... like in this Double Chocolate Pudding. The cocoa beans used to make Dutch-process cocoa powder are washed in an alkaline solution of potassium ...

"Using oats and sunflower seeds instead of cocoa beans, we had to make sure that we still generate the same aroma profile with this fermentation and roasting step," Krug says. At the company's ...

Other companies have different recipes. “Instead of cocoa beans, we use fava beans sourced from farms across the UK and Europe, and then we ferment them in a similar way that cocoa farmers ferme ...