Fiona Wier Walmsley's Utterly Awesome Chocolate Cake Recipe - High Tea Society

Ingredients

• 330 g (11½ oz/1½ cups) white sugar
• 185 ml (6 fl oz/¾ cup) grapeseed or rice bran oil, or other neutral-flavoured oil
• 2 free-range eggs
• 250 ml (8½ fl oz/1 cup) coffee, cooled
• 250 ml (8½ fl oz/1 cup) full-cream (whole) milk
• 300 g (10½ oz/2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
• 125 g (4½ oz/1 cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 3 tablespoons full-cream (whole) milk
• 310 g (11 oz/2½ cups) icing (confectioners’) sugar
• 60 g (2 oz/½ cup) unsweetened cocoa powder