Best Cocoa Powder for Baking — Salt & Baker Cocoa powder is an unsweetened powder that adds chocolate flavor to baked goods such as brownies, cookies, cakes, and various other dessert recipes. Cocoa powder comes from cocoa beans, which is the seed of a cacao tree. Cocoa powder is an end product after cacao beans have been fermented, roasted and pressed to extract about 75% of the cocoa ...