Honey spice cake recipe – Food & Home Magazine

Ingredients

• ***The cake
• 1 ½ cups butter
• 2 ¼ cups brown sugar
• ¾ cups honey
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 6 eggs
• 5 ¼ cups flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 ½ tsp mixed spice
• 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp nutmeg
• 1 ½ tbsp grapefruit zest
• 1 ½ cup buttermilk
• ¾ cup strong rooibos tea
• ***Buttercream icing
• ½ cup butter
• 3 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 2 tbsp milk
• 2 tsp pomegranate concentrate
• ***Grapefruit icing
• 2 tbsp grapefruit juice
• 1 ½ cups icing sugar, sifted
• ***To serve
• 10–12 dried grapefruit slices