This "delicious organic Fair Trade Certified™ cocoa baking powder is perfect for brownies, cakes, cookies and countless desserts. The small scale growers of the CONACADO cooperative carefully cultivate their cacao trees with gentle, shade-grown, chemical-free farming methods. This creates the natural environment preferred by cacao trees as well as native wildlife and migratory birds. Then the co-op selects the best beans for special post-harvest processing, including a critical three day fermentation stage. Finally, in Holland, the cocoa nibs are Dutch processed to create this premier baking powder. Vegan and gluten-free."

CONACADO is the National Confederation of Dominican Republic Cocoa Producers. This cooperative includes 9,000 small-scale farmers, or 1/4th of all Dominican cocoa growers.

This is an Equal Exchange Free Trade Product. Equal Exchange currently works with more than 28 small farmer organizations in 14 developing countries. Our trading partners are small farmer cooperatives - businesses owned and governed democratically by the farmers themselves.

Training programs for women in Guatemala, an ecotourism project in Nicaragua, new classrooms in El Salvador - these are all examples of the initiatives that co-ops have taken in their own communities with the income and support of Equal Exchange and other Fair Trade Organizations.

Fair Trade helps build pride, independence and community empowerment for small farmers and their families in poor countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

So bake up a storm with organic Free Trade baking cocoa from the Dominican Republic.