Rooibos, honey and vanilla Easter cake with cream-cheese icing – Food & Home Magazine

Ingredients

• butter/cooking spray, to grease
• 3 Rooibos teabags
• 300ml boiling water
• 600g self-raising flour, sifted
• pinch salt
• 2,5ml (½ tsp) bicarbonate of soda
• 250g castor sugar
• 100g honey
• 250ml (1 cup) sunflower oil
• 4 large eggs
• 180ml (¾ cup) buttermilk
• 15ml (1 tbsp) vanilla essence
• zest of 2 oranges
• zest of 1 lemon
• <h3>CREAM-CHEESE ICING</h3>
• 1 x 250g box cream cheese, at room temperature
• 50g butter, softened
• 450g icing sugar, sifted
• 3 x 400g packets speckled eggs