Key Lime Cake
- Time 30 minutes
- Serves 10
Ingredients
- 2-1/3 cups flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- Juice and zest from 4 key limes
- 1/2 teaspoon green food coloring, optional*
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- 1 cup buttermilk**
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- Cream cheese frosting***
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans, lightly toasted
How to make it
- In a medium bowl, with a wire whisk combine flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.
- Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar with stand or electric mixer
- until fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time.
- Mixing well after each addition.
- Mix in key lime juice. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
- Mix on low after each addition until just combined.
- Hand stir in key lime zest.
- Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
- Remove cakes from pans.
- Allow cakes to completely cool on wire racks.
- Frost with cream cheese frosting. Use toasted pecans to decorate sides of
- cake.
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- Notes
- *Although, the Key Lime Cake in the photo has the green food coloring added,
- most Key Lime purists will tell you that key limes are not green, they are
- yellow. It’s up to you.
- **Buttermilk can be substituted with 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar
- plus enough milk to make 1 cup.