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Key Lime Cake Recipe

This beautiful key lime cake recipe is moist, crumbly, and made with easy-to-find ingredients. But the best part is, this pretty cake is topped with a sweet limy cream that tastes JUST like key lime pie! It's seriously so good!

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
50 mins
Servings: 10 servings
Course: Dessert , Breakfast
Cuisine: South American , Brazilian

Ingredients

For the Cake:
  • 3 eggs
  • 2.5 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup milk room temperature
  • 4 oz unsalted butter, room temperature one stick
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 Tbsp key lime zest* about 2 limes
  • 2 Tbsp key lime juice* about 2 limes
  • 1 tsp salt
For the Frosting:
  • 1x 14oz can sweet condensed milk
  • 1-2 Tbsp key lime zest* about 4 limes
  • 1/2 cup key lime juice* about 4 limes

Instructions

For the Cake:
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  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Spray, or grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
  3. Add the all purpose flour, the baking powder and the salt to a large bowl, and whisk to combine – set aside.
  4. Mix the butter and the sugar in a large bowl, using a hand mixer until it looks sandy. Then add in the eggs, one at a time, mixing until combined between each addition (a few minutes on medium speed).
  5. Alternate adding flour mixture and the milk, beginning and ending with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of milk), fully incorporating after each addition.
  6. With a spatula, scrape the sides of the bowl and give it a stir. Then, add in the key lime juice and zest and stir to combine.
  7. Pour the batter into the greased bundt pan, and bake until a cake tester/toothpick inserted to the middle comes out lightly crumbly to clean (about 35-40 mins)
  8. Move the cake pan to a cooling rack and let it cool for about 5-10 mins, then remove the cake from the pan and let it cool on the rack
For the Frosting:
  1. Add in the condensed milk and the key lime juice to a medium bowl.
  2. Using a hand mixer, or a hand whisk**, whisk the mixture until creamy and frothy - about 3 minutes on high. Sprinkle in a little bit of the zest and gently stir it with a spatula.
  3. Pour the lime cream over the cake, and sprinkle with the remaining key lime zest.
Bom Apetite!!

Notes

  • *if you can't find key limes, regular limes will work fine!
  • **you can also use a standing mixer with a whisk attachment, or even a blender.