After baking up about 40 batches of different brownie recipes I have decided that I prefer brownies made with cocoa powder (instead of melted chocolate). Now I am trying to decide which cocoa powder will produce the taste/texture that I want. I have tried Nestle, Hershey's, Trader Joe's, Valrhona and Scharffen Berger and I did not like those cocoas for varying reasons. I am now game to try other cocoas, including the KAF ones, and I am wondering which one will produce the taste I want. I am looking at the King Arthur dutch-process cocoas, Pernigotti, Callebaut, Rodelle, M Cuizel, etc. Some of these are high-fat cocoas. I am looking for a cocoa that is smooth, has NO bitterness but yet will yield a very chocolatey brownie. I want a dense, fudgy brownie that tastes like fudge. Not dark chocolate fudge, but like the sweet hot fudge sauce you would get at an ice cream parlor. I want that in a square, with some height. Which cocoa powder will yield a fudgy brownie with ZERO bitterness and that fudge flavor?

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