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Key Lime Cream Cake

Key Lime Cream Cake

I made this Key Lime Cream Cake to go along with a fun handbag giveaway for today.

If you’ve followed the blog for a while you may remember this Red Velvet Clutch or this Buttercream Bag from a while ago. I know – handbags are kind of weird to show on a baking site, but not when the theme is cake and when the bag colors come in fun flavors like Key Lime Cream. Umm… yes please. The bags are from the Petunia Pickle Bottom line called … Cake. And I’ve been enamored with them for a while now. They are actually fashionably disguised diaper bags. But you can totally rock them without having to carry diapers around all day to justify wearing one. They are definitely too pretty for just one purpose.

I’ll show you in a minute. But first… a little Key Lime Cream Cake.

Key Lime Cream Cake

Decorated with swirls of whipped cream and graham cracker crumbs. Yum!

Key Lime Cream Cake

And four layers of key lime cake. Four uneven layers that I could have split better. But that’s okay. Still good.

Cake

Here’s the recipe or if you are more interested in the giveaway, just keep scrolling.

Key Lime Cream Cake

Key Lime Cream Cake

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Additional Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1-1/2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 2/3 cup oil
  • 2/3 cup key lime juice
  • 3/4 cup sour cream

Frosting

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 - 8 oz packages cream cheese, softened
  • 2 - 16 oz boxes confectioners' sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 cup key lime juice (optional)
  • green food coloring (optional for color)

Whipped Cream

  • 16 oz. heavy whipping cream
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. For cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.
  2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into mixer. Add eggs, oil and lime juice. Beat until smooth. Add sour cream and beat until smooth.
  3. Pour into prepared pans and bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool and frost.
  4. For frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in vanilla. For really creamy frosting, mix in 1/4 cup of key lime juice. You can also leave it out or add more confectioners sugar to make it thicker. Add a small amount of green food color if you'd like the frosting tinted.
  5. For Whipped cream: Chill metal bowl and beaters in freezer for about 20 minutes. When ready to whip, add ingredients to the bowl and beat until stiff peaks form.
  6. Divide cake into four layers and frost. Pipe top with whipped cream or add crushed graham crackers to the side of the cake if desired. Refrigerate.
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Key Lime Cream Cake Purse

Hey there! Want to know more about the giveaway. Well, here’s the bag in Key Lime Cream Cake. It’s made of cut velvet and comes with straps to carry several ways. Pretty handy. Oh and it has a separate little clutch, too. Check out this post on the red velvet bag I gave away a while back – it really shows off some of the details. The custom stamped name and zipper pulls are enough to make you swoon. And for more info on the bags from Petunia Pickle Bottom, click here.

Want one? Want to pick your own flavor?

Enter for a chance to win a $325 Petunia Pickle Bottom Society Satchel Cake Bag.

  • To enter, just leave a comment on the blog and tell me which one of the flavors below that you’d like to win. Easy enough.
  • Deadline to enter is Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 7 pm ET. Sorry, TIME’S UP! Winner announced below.
  • One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.

Disclosure stuff: Handbag is courtesy of Petunia Pickle Bottom and giveaway is sponsored by me because I like these bags.

 

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Good luck!

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Okay, we have a winner. Yay! And I thought for sure it would be someone that picked Black Forest Cake based on all of the responses.

winner

Congratulations Jamie! I hope you love your plum tart cake bag!

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4,992 comments on “Key Lime Cream Cake”

  1. Love the KEY LIME GREEN! Matches with your key lime cream cake! :-)

  2. berry chiffon or plum tart

  3. BLACK FOREST CAKE…too cute…

  4. LOVE the Berry Chiffon!!! I just had my daughter in march and would love to carry her diapers in it!!

  5. Berry Chiffon Cake – I love the pink and grey color combo!

  6. I love the black forest cake!

  7. Love Key Lime Cake!!

  8. So hard to decide but I’ll go with the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  9. I would have to say key lime! And can’t wait to make the cake just in time for my brothers birthday this week!

  10. Black Forest for-sure!

  11. Love the Black Forest Cake! Totally cute and quite a tasty flavor…..mmmmmmm!

  12. Love this bag especially Black Forest Cake!!!!!!

  13. I love the black forest cake the best. Second would be the plum tart.

  14. I would love that Black Forest bag!

  15. Love, love, love the Berry Chiffon!

  16. They all look great! I would pick the key lime to eat, but the berry chiffon bag because it reminds me of when I was younger.

  17. The Plum Tart Cake is the cutest!~

  18. Black Forest please!

  19. Wow! what beautiful handbags! The Berry Chiffon Cake would be amazing to have as my first ever diaper bag. As and added bonus, I could actually call it a purse!

  20. Oh wow they are all so great. I guess the black forest?

  21. Berry Chiffon Cake is so pretty!

  22. Berry chiffon! Love it

  23. My FAV bag is the Plum Tart Cake…I love purple!

  24. Berry chiffon is my cup of tea!

  25. I would love either the Berry Chiffon or the Black Forest!

  26. black forest! they are sooo cute!

  27. The Black Forest Cake. I actually have a Petunia Pickle Bottom bag clutch that I use as a purse. Everyone is always amazed when I mention it is a diaper bag.

  28. Oh these are so sweet!!! I am all over that Black Forrest Cake bag!! It’s to die for!

  29. I really like the Berry Chiffon, Black Forest is great too.

  30. Absolutely adore the Berry Chiffon Cake. It’s fabulous!

  31. I would most definately want the key lime, or the berry chiffon, or the black forest, or the plum tart, what I mean is I want them all! The Key Lime is my favorite though!

  32. These bags are FABULOUS!!!!
    My favorite colors are pink and green, so the Black Forest Cake would be my pick. I could carry it with both my faves!

  33. Berry Chiffon Cake please!!!!! I really hope I win! Xo

  34. There are all too pretty! I gotta go with Plum tart :)

  35. Love the Black Forest Cake! Yummy!

  36. You have such amazing taste in bags! I think the Plum Tart is my favourite – so beautiful!

  37. Anyone! They’re all sooo cute! But i would love one with more color than the black forest.

  38. Black Forest Cake!! You are awesome on so many levels!!!!

  39. Oh, how lovely! I LOVE lime green and Key Lime Pie, so that would be my choice. No, wait… The Black Forest is gorgeous too. Too hard to decide!!

  40. So pretty! Black Forest cake is my favorite.

  41. plum tart looks like a gorgeous color!

  42. Black forrest cake is gorgeous!

  43. I would totally rock the black forest bag!

  44. Key Lime Cream Cake!

  45. The cake looks beautiful and delicious. For bags, I love the berry chiffon. Thanks!

  46. I would love to win the Berry Chiffon Cake bag!!!!

  47. Would love the plum torte!!

  48. LOVE the Black Forest Cake!

  49. I LLLOOOVVEE the Plum Tart Cake and the Black Forest Cake!!!!! Yummy!

  50. Oh my gosh, these bags are AMAZING! I love the Key Lime Cream Cake.

  51. Black Forest Cake!! Bakerella, you are awesome on so many levels!!

  52. I love the Black Forest Cake bag. These bags are so pretty!

  53. I’d love to win the berry chiffon!

  54. Black Forrest Cake is my favorite, but they are all so, so pretty. :)

  55. I’ll have a big slice of the Key Lime Cream Cake, please; with a side order of the Black Forest Cake, pretty please?

  56. That Key Lime Cream Cake looks so yummy!! All of the bags are gorgeous, but I would love the Black Forest Cake Bag because it would go with EVERYTHING!!

  57. I like the berry one! So cute–if I win it I’m giving it to my daughter for a diaper bag!!

  58. Key lime cream pie! Its so cute!!!

  59. I would be all over the key lime.

  60. I would LOVE the Berry Chiffon Cake! :)

  61. Key Lime Cream Cake :)

  62. Black Forest Cake. Please & Thank You!

  63. They all look amazing!!!

  64. Plum tart, for sure! They’re beautiful.

  65. Definitely the key lime! Love it!

  66. berry chiffon cake please!!!!!

  67. so beautiful!! i would pick berry chifffon!!

  68. key lime cream cake for sure!!!

  69. Black Forest Cake!

  70. The Berry Chiffon is divine!!! I’d love that one.

  71. Love them all but my favorite is the Plum Tart Cake bag!!

  72. Black Forest. Yum! Thanks

  73. It is for my wife and she would love the key lime pie

  74. Berry Chiffon, please. Such beautiful bags!

  75. First off, the cake looks divine! I do love the Berry Chiffon Cake bag though. :)

  76. Black Forest Cake is my favorite! They are such beautiful designs that any of them would be amazing!

  77. I love them all, but I would LOVE the black forest cake!

  78. holly smackeroo. this bags are cut enough to eat! my fav is the key lime cream cake one…yummy

  79. The cake looks amazing, and I don’t even LIKE Key Lime Cake! :) I would choose the Black Forest bag!

  80. Hmm… This would switch between my mom and I, but I would love the Plum Tart with all the colours. SO CUTE!

  81. berry chiffon cake !! adorable

  82. Plum Tart Cake

  83. Black Forest Cake!

  84. I love the Black Forest Cake bag! And that key lime cake looks so delicious, it might have to be my contribution to 4th of July dinner. =)

  85. All so pretty!! My fave, though, is Plum Tart Cake!!

  86. Oh my! All of the bags are adorable, but if I had to choose, I’d go for the Black Forest Cake!

  87. key lime is the awesome-est.

  88. I love the Berry Chiffon! Close second: Black Forest. :)

  89. The berry chiffon would have to be my favorite…i love anything gray and pink ;)

  90. Berry Chiffon for sure!

  91. The Key Lime Cream Cake is a must make for the summer and the black forest purse is adorable!

  92. They all look yummy but plum tart my fav

  93. Black forest all the way.

  94. Recently discovered the blog and love it!! Totally inspired to make these lovely confections, even buying cupcake wrappers today. Would love plum tart cake!!

  95. Black forest or any of them They are so cute.

  96. The Berry Chiffon, or the Black Forest, don’t make me decide :)

  97. I would choose plum tart cake. I love these bags!

  98. Oooh pretty! Key Lime or Black Forest please :)

  99. Love the Black Forest!

  100. since its a standing joke with my friends that i have never paid more than 99.99 for a pocketbook, (and that was only once!)
    i wouldn’t know what to say to owning a $325 bag!! but if i did own one, it would be the key lime!! hehehe
    they are all pretty~~~

  101. Plum Tart is beautiful!

  102. I would love to win one for my sister who just had her first baby. I think the Berry Chiffon is gorgeous!

  103. The cake looks really good!! i’m so hungry right now xD
    and the black forest cake looks beautiful (:

  104. Have just discovered your blog last week and have been re-inspirerd to bake (even bought cup cake wrappers). Key lime cake looks divine. Would love the Plum Tort Cake!!

  105. The plum tart is calling to me ….!

  106. The Plum Tart Cake!! =)

  107. I would love the Black Forest Cake one – so versatile and classy!

  108. Mmmm!!!! Black Forest Cake! :)

  109. Your cake looks AMAZING! And so do the handbags! Black Forest, please! :)

  110. Loving the Plum Tart Cake! Maybe because I’m allergic to plums but I looooove them anyways lol!

    And I’m really liking this cake. It might be what I make for our 4th of July party!

  111. wow! they are beautiful, I love the plum tart cake.!!!!!!!

  112. AAAAAAAHHHH! All so cute! But if I had to choose, it would be Black Forest Cake. YUM! :)

  113. AAAAAAAHHHH! All so cute! But if I had to choose, it would be Black Forest Cake. YUM! :)

  114. berry chiffon all the way :D

  115. Plum Tart, Berry Chiffon, and Black Forest ~ I can’t decide!

  116. Great choices! Hard to choose, but my favorite is the key lime pie!

  117. Plum Tart! Plum Tart!

  118. Oh, so hard! I think black forest!

  119. I would love any of them, but black forest is definitely the cutest.

  120. love love love the berry chiffon cake!!!! But they all are so cute.

  121. I just love the key lime cream cake and I have a pregnant daughter to boot. =D

  122. I love them all, but I would say the Plum Tart Cake!
    Good luck everyone :)

  123. Berry Chiffon! I think another cake is in order!

  124. Berry Chiffon pretty please!!! :)

  125. Black Forest Cake, for sure this one is my favorite! And now it’s gonna be on my mind :)

  126. Dying to try that cake, it looks scrumptious!

    As for the bag, it’s a toss up between Black Forest or Plum Tart, but I think Black Forest wins by a nose. :)

  127. key lime all the way! And, with a baby on the way, and my love of all things lime (flavoured and coloured) how perfect would that bag be?!

    Love the site and cannot wait to try the cake too!

    Lindsay

  128. The Berry Chiffon, definitely!

  129. Yummmm…My favorite is the Black Forest cake.

  130. I love them all, but I think the Key Lime is my favorite.

  131. I’d love the Black Forest Cake …. and I can’t wait to make the Key Lime Cake recipe :)

  132. Key lime cream cake for sure!!!!!!!

  133. plum tart please! thanks for this giveaway!

  134. Love Key Lime, can’t wait to bake the cake too!

  135. I am totally in love with them all! Hard to choose!! I’d probably say Berry Chiffon or Key lime! GORG!!

    The cake recipe looks delish too! :) must try soon!

  136. Maybe Plum Tart.
    The key lime cake looks scrumptious!

  137. Gorgeous! My fav is the black forest cake!

  138. I love the black forest cake bag!!

  139. Black forest would be the one id choose! :)

  140. It’s so hard to choose, but I think that I would like to have the Berry Chiffon.

  141. Berry Chiffon Cake So cute! :)

  142. The Berry Chiffon Cake is my fav!

  143. The Black Forest Cake is adorable!

  144. I would pick the Black Forest Cake to go with everything… but the Plum Tart Cake is adorable! Plum Tarte it is!

  145. Oooh! The Berry Chiffon is ADORABLE! And the cake looks fantastically delicious!

  146. Oh wow! That Plum Tart is beautiful!

  147. my favorite part is the name:
    Petunia Pickle Bottom Satchel..

    love it..

    would have to go with the key lime pie..should I be lucky enough to win….

  148. They are all super cute, but my favorite is plum tart!

  149. Plum Tart!

  150. I’m not picky, but I am grateful!! I’ll take any one of them you are willing to share with me!!

  151. I adore the Berry Chiffon Bag, although the Black Forest is a very close second.
    Your Key Lime Cream Cake look Divine! Wish we had Eat-A-Vision. Look so light and creamy. I guess I’ll have to make one. Thanks for the chance at the drawing!!

  152. I kinda love the Key Lime one .. but I’m also dig’n the Plum Tart. I love those bags!

  153. I am definitely making that cake this weekend! And I’d love that Plum Tart Cake bag, very cute!

  154. Key Lime Creme Cake! The bag is gorgeous in green and the recipe sounds delicious too. :)

  155. I love the Black forest and the Berry Chiffon :) thanks for such a fun website!

  156. Berry chiffon is by far my favorite! Love them all though!!

  157. Some Plum Tart Cake- Please!

  158. I love the Berry Chiffon

  159. Love, love, love the Key Lime Cake bag! Every time I say that, my mouth waters.!

  160. Berry chiffon cake for sure!

  161. Hard Choice – But I would go with Black Forest

  162. I would love any of them, but my favorite is black forest cake! Super cute

  163. KEY LIME..Thanks for not only sharing baking greatness, but awesome bags :)

  164. I really like the berry chiffon but the key lime is pretty too!

  165. You are awesome on so many levels!!! I love the Black Forest Cake bag!

  166. Black Forest! It’s a classic. But they’re all gorgeous…

  167. Black Forest Cake for me too!!!!

  168. This post is making me crave cake. Too bad I don’t have any, but I do like the Plum Tart cake bag.

  169. Definitely Key Lime! Love it.

  170. Oh my gosh! That Berry Chiffon bag looks amazing! My mom LOVES berry chiffon and I think she would love that bag as a gift!

  171. Berry chiffon. I’m all over it!

  172. It would be between the Berry Chiffon or the Black Forest, so hard to decide!

  173. Oooh, that key lime cream cake looks SO delicious, and I love the bag! The bag I’d love to win is the black forest cake bag. :)

  174. Black Forest is divine… Although it’s like trying to choose your favorite body limb…you really love them all :)

  175. the plum tart is cute too!!!

  176. I love the berry chiffon cake

  177. berry chiffon!!

  178. Soft and moist key lime goodness looks great. The bag also looks great. Soft and moist in diapers…no so.

  179. OMG….adore the berry chiffon cake!!!! wow!! Oh and your key key lime cake looks divine, thanks for the recipe.

  180. Black Forest Cake would be my pick!

  181. Love both the Berry Chiffon Cake and the Key Lime Pie!!!

  182. I like them all but my fave is Black Forest Cake

  183. Major cuteness! Gotta go with key lime pie!

  184. Sweet! I love the Plum Tart bag!

  185. Black Forest Cake!!! To die for!!!

  186. I like the berry chiffon bag. The key lime cake looks delicious,thanks for the recipe.

  187. Key Lime Cake – I must make! Love the Key Lime Pie bag!

  188. Yum. Black Forest Cake looks delicious!

  189. I would love the Berry Chiffon as I am having my first girl in 2 weeks :)

  190. I love the Plum Tart!

  191. Berry chiffon cake for sure! Love it!

  192. Oooh, love the cake and the bag… Key Lime Cream Cake for me, too!

  193. That cake looks absolutely divine and so does the Black Forest Cake bag.

    :)

  194. How can I ever choose? I guess the Plum tart cake. They are so beautiful.

  195. Those are the cutest bags. My sister would love the key lime, but I’m liking the black forest

  196. My favorite is the plum tart cake!

  197. I would love, love, LOVE the Berry Chiffon Cake.

  198. Love the berry chiffon!

  199. Oh man… I love them all! But I would have to say the Berry Chiffon… love the pick and grey combo!

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