Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

• You can combine regular unsweetened cocoa powder with baking soda to create a substitute for cocoa powder. For every ounce of Dutch cocoa powder, combine three tablespoons of regular unsweetened cocoa powder with an eighth of a teaspoon of baking soda.

Carob Powder

• Carob powder comes from a tropical roasted bean. The consistency is very similar to Dutch-process cocoa powder and can be substituted, three tablespoons for each ounce of cocoa powder. Though its texture mirrors cocoa powder, and it has fewer calories and no saturated fat. Carob has a distinct, slightly sour taste that does not truly resemble the taste of cocoa.

Baking Chocolate

• You can substitute solid, unsweetened baking chocolate for Dutch-processed cocoa powder. Because unsweetened baking chocolate contains fat, you need to remove some fat from your recipe when substituting. Take out one tablespoon of your recipe's fat ingredient (butter, oil) for each one ounce of unsweetened baking chocolate.