— Mel Dorling

I'm guessing by cacao powder, and you can write and tell me if I'm wrong, because I'm just guessing by the use of cacao powder that you mean non-alkalized and perhaps raw, which I have said, and I will say again, is unroasted chocolate. It's not raw. So you can certainly use it in any way that you would use a non-alkalized cocoa powder. In terms of whole plant sugars, the ones that come to mind for me are coconut sugar, maybe some date sugar as well. I use organic vegan cane sugar. I don't believe that you would consider that a whole plant sugar, or you can use a liquid sugar like maple syrup, date syrup, rice syrup. Not interchangeable. It absolutely depends on the recipe that you're going to use. So we go over this in the course. There's whole units on this because, again, chocolates are not cocoa powder. Sugars are not necessarily interchangeable. So I hope that helps, Mel. Just use it. Use your cocoa powder as you would any non-alkalized cocoa powder. And when you're using whole plant sugars, they tend to be very coarse. You want to grind them finely before you use them.