Hi Ruth.
This post is sponsored by Splenda. I’m sure the conversion for SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend can be found through a quick google search.

Happy baking!

Karen, Your local Walmart may have it. If not, it can usually be found in the supermarket near the other flours, or if you have a gluten free or specialty foods section in your market, sometimes it is there. Other names for it are hazelnut flour and hazelnut meal. In a pinch, Amazon also sells it!

– Kaitlin

Just for clarification. It’s instant coffee I buy and use.

I detest the taste of coffee, but, I do use it in every chocolate recipe that calls for hot water. You can’t taste. Seriously, you can’t. It just gives the chocolate a deeper, richer flavor. You’d be surprised at the chocolate cakes you’ve eaten that has coffee in it without you ever knowing it. It’s ok. Use it. Seriously, there’s not enough money on this earth to get me to drink it. I buy those small boxes that have 6 single packs in it. I buy it at the Dollar Tree. I use 2 of them in the hot water and then just poor it into the cake batter. You can use regular or decaf. Doesn’t matter. I often interchange them. Hope you try it. You’ll be very pleasantly surprised.

I don’t either but I LOVE the smell of it, and coffee ice cream and other coffee flavored things so I bet this tastes wonderful! Actually I often use coffee in place of water if I’m throwing together a box mix along with a package of instant choc. pudding powder and YUM! Mocha cake! Odd though, I hate coffee itself!

Hi Debbie,
You can use water instead of brewed coffee. The coffee just helps enhance the flavor of the chocolate. I hope this helps!

Kaitlin