Photo: Key Lime Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Cake:
- Butter, for greasing pan
- Flour, for dusting pan
- One 3-ounce package lime flavored gelatin
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 large eggs, slightly beaten
Glaze:
- 1/2 cup key lime juice (from about 25 small key limes or 4 large regular limes)
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
Icing:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick butter), room temperature
- One 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
- One 1 pound box confectioners' sugar
Directions
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease and flour one 9-by-12-by-2-inch cake pan.
In a large mixing bowl, mix the gelatin, granulated sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir to mix well. Add the oil, orange juice, lemon juice, vanilla, and eggs. Mix until well combined. Pour the batter evenly in the pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Test for doneness by lightly touching the tops or inserting a toothpick. Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack.
For the glaze: While the cake is still hot, mix the lime juice and confectioners' sugar together well. Pierce the cake with a fork to allow the glaze to soak in better and pour it over the cake on the cooling rack. Allow cake to cool completely as you prepare the icing.
For the icing: Cream the butter and cream cheese. Beat in the confectioners' sugar until mixture is smooth and easy to spread. Spread the icing on the top and sides of the cake.
Cook's Note: you can also use three 9-inch round cake pans and make this into a layer cake.
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By Cookin Elee
Plainfield, NJ
on May 08, 2013
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I tasted this cake and LOVED IT!! I will be making 3 of them this weekend.
By lsam12
Mt. Hope, KS
on April 12, 2013
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The first time I made the Key Lime Cake, I followed the directions exactly and took the cake to work.Every one loved it and one of the ladies said it was the best cake she ever put in her mouth. I made one for my family the second time, and I put 4 teaspoons of key lime juice in the icing and it put the cake over the top. Out of this world delicious.
By mjswope_10174739
Florence, TX
on April 07, 2013
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If there were a negative number of stars for this recipe, that's what I would rate it. My sister made this cake for our family Easter gathering & it did double duty as my birthday cake. It was FABULOUS. So, I got the recipe & was going to make it for a church fellowship. Now, I am an experienced cook & baker, but this thing is a disaster. About half way thru baking, there was an overly brown square in the middle of the cake, but I continued, thinking it's got to get better, but it only got WORSE. The outside 2 inches of the cake were gorgeous, but inside of that sunk to about 1/3 the depth of the outside. I thought possibly something was wrong with the heating element of my oven. So, NOT TO BE OUTDONE IN THE KITCHEN, I proceeded to bake another one in my lower oven. Same thing a second time. So, if my family is to ever eat this cake again, it'll have to come from my sister's kitchen.
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