Can you leave cocoa powder out of a chocolate cake recipe?
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Question by bird_lover: 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?
I don't have any cocoa powder in the house, but I like this recipe.
Best answer:
Answer by kyle w
that's where you get the chocolate flavor from so, no, you shouldn't leave it out.
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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!
not if you want a CHOCOLATE cake
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.
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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