Can you leave cocoa powder out of a chocolate cake recipe?

If you can, do you need to replace the cocoa powder with something else?Can you leave cocoa powder out of a chocolate cake recipe?
Yes, but you will need to replace it with something like ';baker's chocolate';, chocolate syrup, melted chocolate bars or chips or even hot chocolate/cocoa mix if you want the cake to be chocolate flavored. They also make a chocolate extract...but if you don't have cocoa powder it's not likely you'll have that either.Can you leave cocoa powder out of a chocolate cake recipe?
that's where you get the chocolate flavor from so, no, you shouldn't leave it out.
yes but it wouldn't be chocolate cake any more.





Would have to add another flavour like ginger, vanilla, lemon and then it would be a ginger cake, vanilla cake, lemon cake!
It probably wouldn't be a good idea, it would be very blah, and of course it wouldn't be a chocolate cake then.
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not if you want a CHOCOLATE cake