substitute for cocoa powder for a vanilla version

[niobe]

i have a chocolate recipe for which I use cocoa powder. I would like to make a vanilla version but don't know what substance to use to substitute for the "powder" which adds considerable volume. I do not want to use solid chocolate.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[Lisa Shock]

It kind of depends on what you're making. Rice flour might work. I am assuming you have the flavor part covered, and you just want to make up for the bulk the cocoa provides.

Hope this helps!

[chiantiglace]

why would you want to do that? just get a vanilla cake recipe. that seems like a lot of unnecessary work.

[niobe]

should have added- it's for a beverage

why would you want to do that?  just get a vanilla cake recipe.  that seems like a lot of unnecessary work.

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[Tri2Cook]

This would be much easier if we knew exactly what you're trying to do. "A beverage with significant cocoa content that I want to change to vanilla" leaves us doing a lot of guessing. Is this a hot cocoa that you want to be vanilla, a milkshake, a cocktail of some sort?

[chiantiglace]

i dont know what you are doing but I suggest you just exempt the cocoa all together, figure out the weight of the rest of the ingredients and add a certain percentage of another flavoring ingredient to infuse (ie vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, fruit etc). Depending on what type of vanilla you are using it will probably be something around 1% to the entire recipe.

[Sethro]

Yeah why does it matter what percentage of dry mass is in a beverage? Is it like...hot cocoa with no cocoa? I guess I would use a little tapioca starch to emulate that mouthfeel...although I have no idea if that's what you're trying to do or not.

The only other chocolate beverages I can think of are chocolate martinis and Canfields chocolate soda!

[chiantiglace]

Yeah why does it matter what percentage of dry mass is in a beverage? Is it like...hot cocoa with no cocoa? I guess I would use a little tapioca starch to emulate that mouthfeel...although I have no idea if that's what you're trying to do or not.

The only other chocolate beverages I can think of are chocolate martinis and Canfields chocolate soda!

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which don't really contain cocoa powder. so im at a loss as well. And cocoa powder doesn't really give body, its kind of like dissolving cool aid powder you know.

[JFLinLA]

Don't know if they're in NYC but in California we also have Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores. Long before Starbucks launched their frappucino type drinks, CB&T was selling "ice-blendeds" all over the place. In addition to coffee flavors, you could order them in pure vanilla or pure chocolate. And, of course, you could also get a hot vanilla as well as a hot chocolate from them. I would get them for the kids when they were little. And they sell the stuff in the stores so you can make it at home. I'd either go buy that or go look at the ingredient list.