On Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:06:20 AM UTC+10, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2014 04:44:07 -0500, Alan Holbrook wrote:
>
> > [...] the recipe calls for 'black cocoa powder' as
> > well as regular ol' unsweetened Dutch process cocoa.

Black cocoa is super-Dutched (so "ultra-Dutched", "extra-Dutched", "heavily-Dutched" work as search terms). Supposed to have a stronger flavour; strong enough so that it's usually used with regular cocoa.

> Use Hershey's Special Dark is so dark, it's black.
> http://www.hersheys.com/assets/image...al-dark_lg.png

That would work. As a blend of black and regular, maybe just use it without adding extra regular cocoa.