ROOIBOS PANCAKE CAKE
PANCAKES:
3 eggs
8 Rooibos Teabags
4 cups milk
4 Tbls oil
1 Tbls vanilla essence
3 cups cake flour
Pink food coloring for 1/2 the batter
ICING:
3 tubs cream cheese
6 Tbls strawberry yogurt 1/2 cup icing sugar
TOPPING:
Strawberries for garnish Dusting of icing sugar
In a saucepan, warm up the milk and the teabags until infused. Simmer for 2-3 minutes and then cook completely.
METHOD:
In a large bowl, combine the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla essence.
Sift the flour and baking powder into the wet mixture.
Blend together until smooth using a hand mixer.
Divide batter into two bowls. Color the one bowl of batter with a few drops of pink coloring. Mix till combined.
Use a non-stick pan to make pancakes. Heat a bit of oil or use cooking spray for the pan. Fry the pancakes.
For the icing, blend all the ingredients together till smooth.
Spread icing over each pancake and then stack the pancakes one ontop of the other. Alternating colors. Pink and White.
Ice the top of the pancake cake and garnish with fresh strawberries and a dusting of icing sugar.
Slice and serve.