Texas Sheet Cake

Ingredients

• Cake

  • 430 ml (1 ¾ cups) unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 10 ml (2 tsp) baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) cocoa powder
  • 500 ml (2 cups) brown sugar
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) canola oil
  • 250 ml (1 cup) buttermilk

• Icing

  • 250 ml (1 cup) milk
  • 115 g (4 oz) dark chocolate, chopped
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) cocoa powder
  • 60 ml (¼ cup) butter, softened
  • 375 ml (1 ½ cups) icing sugar
  • 375 ml (1 ½ cups) pecans, toasted and crushed