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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.

 

CakePurses

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. Plum Tart! So cute!!

  2. The Plum Tart Cake is so rich and lovely. What a beautiful bag and wonderful giveaway. Thank you!

  3. the cake looks devine but ladies I need your help. Im in Australia and i need to know what kind of oil that you would use in the recipe.. There are too many to guess???

  4. I think the Plum tote is great for Fall!! Diggin’ the names. Adorable bags!

  5. I’ll definitely try this recipe, but I’d love the Black Forest Cake!

  6. Plum Tart Cake is delish!

  7. I love the black forest cake! it’s so cute!

  8. Key lime! So fun! Thanks for featuring these.

  9. Plum Tart Cake! This is my first day on this blog. I LOVE baking cakes and cupcakes so let the inspiration come on!

  10. Key lime cream cake is absolutely amazing!! I LOVE Petunia Pickle Bottom bags and know JUST who I would give this to if i won! :)

  11. Black Forest cake! (But the recipe for Key Lime looks delicious!)

  12. Beautiful bags! Berry Chiffon Cake is my fav!

  13. I love all of them! I can see each bag in my head paired with another look… My favorites are the Black Forest and Plum Tart bags. I guess I’d have to choose (listen to me-I am writing as if I already one this fabulous bag!) the Black Forest because ultimately that is the most versatile of them all!

  14. I can’t wait to try the cake!!
    The Black Forest Cake is my favorite.

  15. I love the Black Forest Cake bag.

  16. Love them all! PLUM TART is #1 tho :)

  17. Ahhh…now I know the perfect dessert to make for my hubby this week as we celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary!! Thanks so much!! LOVE the petunia picklebottom bags. Had one when my munchkins were babies. I would adore the black forest cake bag : )

  18. I’d like the Berry Chiffon!

  19. Black Forest – why – who doesn’t like chocolate and cherry

  20. Love the Plum Tart!

  21. black forest is my favorite!

  22. I love the Berry Chiffon. They are so cute!

  23. Key Lime Cream Cake, please to go with the cake I will soon bake (;

  24. Love the cake…I will definitely be making that! As for the bag…I would have to pick the plum tart…Love purples!

  25. Ohhh berry chion and black forest! Amazing!!!

  26. I’d like the Plum Tart Cake bag!

  27. I LOVE the Black Forest Cake bag! =)

  28. Berry chiffon! They’re beee-autiful!!!

  29. Agh! It’s too difficult to choose. But I’m going for the Black Forest. It goes with anything!

    *crosses fingers* =)

  30. Berry chiffon :)

  31. Berry Chiffon Please!

  32. I would love to get one for my wife– Key Lime Cream!

  33. Berry Chiffon, fo show!

  34. They all look so yummy. Black Forest Please.

  35. love the black forest cake !!!!!

  36. berry chiffon

  37. Black Forest cake!

  38. All are adorable but I love the black forest…

  39. Oh man. Those are gorgeous bags! I’d love to win the black forest cake bag!

  40. Black Forest for me, please!

  41. I love the Black Forest Cake one but then again the Berry one is so nice. I would take any of them. :)

  42. I would love the Black Forest Cake! But definitely going to be making that Key Lime yumminess!

  43. Key lime…great colors!

  44. Mmmm…Berry Chiffon cake is fantastic!

  45. Berry Chiffon with Plum Tart a close 2nd.

  46. What a fab idea! I love key lime pie… cake sounds even better.

    Love the key lime bag!

  47. Berry chiffon or plum tart look absolutely yummy!

  48. I love the Plum one! So cute :)

  49. The Black Forest satchel is on my “thou Shalt not Covit” Pintrest board! I have been drooling over this bag for MONTHS! Winning this would make me one of the happiest girls in the world!

  50. Definitely the Black Forest Cake…Super cute and also “Yummy!”

  51. Black forest cake !!!

  52. Love them all, but the plum tart is my favorite! Love their names too.

  53. I love the black forest bag!!

  54. That cake looks great! My vote is Black Forest…btw you are awesome ;)

  55. Black forest! So pretty!

  56. Berry Chiffon~ Lovely!

  57. Yummy!!! Berry Chiffon Cake looks good enough to eat.

  58. I love them all!! Black forest cake would be the most versatile for work and fun

  59. Plum Tart Cake!!!

  60. All so adorable! But would love the Berry Chiffon Cake.

  61. Key lime Cream Cake all the way sugar! whew hew ;) Lord please … you know this cake pop momma NEEDS a petunia pickle bottom bag! Amen :) Not to mention my favorite cake pop I have made thus far has been key lime…. think I’ll try your recipe this time, cause it looks so darn good!

  62. Berry Chiffon Cake!

  63. Plum tart cake please!

  64. Black forest! It is SO cute!

  65. plum tart cake for me!

  66. Loving the Berry Chiffon…or black forest! Or Plum tart!!! Ah! Hard to choose! Ok, Berry Chiffon it is :) Oh how I want this…..

  67. YUM!! I would totally pick the black forest cake. GORGEOUS bag!

  68. I would love to win this. I am due with a boy soon and my diaper bag is pink-so I am due for a new one! I would pick either key lime cream or black forest.

  69. Plum Tart Cake! Thanks for the opportunity :O)

  70. The plum tart cake bag!

  71. Black forest definitely!

  72. Key Lime Cream por favor!

  73. I would have to go with Berry Chiffon Cake, since it’s a little different.

  74. That Plum Tart Cake is just gorgeous. :)

  75. que delicia! mis respetos a tu gran creatividad y gracias por ser tan compartida con ese don tan maravilloso, encantada con el blog y más aún con la propietaria, Bendiciones C;
    p.d. todos los sabores me encantan!!!!!

  76. Black Forest Cake. Yum!

  77. Key Lime Cream Cake is amazing!

  78. Black Forest Cake

  79. I just love the pink of the Berry Chiffon!

  80. Mmmmmmmmm, Berry Chiffon Cake, beautiful and delicious.

  81. I love the key lime pie! It’s too cute!

  82. I need the Plum Tort Cake!

  83. So Cute!! Berry Chiffon Cake please

  84. Berry chiffon is nice :)

  85. YUMMY!! Those bags look as delicious as all those yummy treats you make. I would die and go to heaven for the Black Forest Cake one!! ooh la la

  86. They are amazing-think I’d love to own the Plum Tart-so gorgeous!!

  87. black forest :)

  88. Black forest cake

  89. no doubt, the black forest cake! *slurps*

  90. Would love to give the key lime pie one to my daughter-in-law who is pregnant with my first grandchild!

  91. Plum Tart Cake is Love!!!

  92. I would love the plum tart!

  93. Oh, my! These are so fun! It is hard to choose a favorite, but I think I like “Berry Chiffon Cake” best! Thanks for the chance to have such an awesome bag!

  94. Love them all!!!! But… Berry Chiffon :)

  95. Love the Black Forest Cake!

  96. Now the practical side of me says black forest cake would go better with everything, but the whimsical side of me says KEY LIME. Hey if I win you could just be super sweet and give me both???

  97. YUM – to the cake and the bags. The Key Lime Cream Cake bag looks the most delicious… love the colour scheme.

  98. Black forest cake! It would make a great birthday present for myself. :)

  99. Black Forest Cake!

  100. Key Lime for sure…what is funny is I just flew home from my sister’s wedding in Key West yesterday (had my first Key Lime pie) and I pregnant and in need of a diaper bag…who knows right :) Beautiful cake and bag!

  101. I absolutely love the Berry Chiffon Cake. So gorgeous.

  102. I bought ur book recently, excited to try it this week. wish me luck! by the way, i love the black forest! just as fancy looking just like the cake itself!

  103. I love the black forest cake bag!

  104. I love them all but if I had to choose just oneI would say the Black Forest Cake one as my hubby is obsessed with BF cake!!! ;)

  105. Yummy! Plum Tart Cake, please!

  106. It would not be summer without some Key Lime Cream Cake goodness! Yum!

  107. Key lime for sure!

  108. Black forest cake!!!!!!!

  109. The Berry Chiffon Cake is super cute!
    I’m making the Key Lime Cream Cake this week!!! Can’t wait!

  110. I would love to have any of them, but my favorite is Plum Tart Cake!

  111. Black forest! Everything goes with black!
    Yay! What a fun give away!

  112. I would love to have any of them, but my favorite is Berry Chiffon Cake!

  113. I would love to have any of them, but my favorite is Black Forest Cake!

  114. They are all scrumptious looking but I like Berry Chiffon best!

  115. I would love to have any of them, but my favorite is Key Lime Cream Cake!

  116. Love the pink and grey color combo, so I’d choose Berry Chiffon!

  117. I love them all, but especially the berry tart! So cute!

  118. Black forest!

  119. Black forest Cake is my FAV!!! But love the key lime also.

  120. Black forest!!

  121. Oh my LANTA the plum tart bag needs to come with me on my honeymoon!!! It is beautiful!

  122. Oh they are all so gorgeous (like your cake!) – my favorite is the key lime cream cake :-)

  123. Yummy! Plum Tart Cake.

  124. i’d flip a coin between the key lime and the black forest…. too cute to choose!

  125. Plum tart cake one ! It is just the cutest :D

  126. Black Forest because it’s my favorite cake and I LOVE that bag!!

  127. I would like the berry chiffon

  128. Oh my goodness! I am in no way a girly girl, but I love all of these bags! Plum Tart… Black Forest… I’m going to go with Black Forest! No Plum Tart… definitely Plum Tart!!! Final answer!

  129. I’m not sure if my entry went through but I love the black forest! How fun!?

  130. Berry Chiffon Cake!!

  131. Yummy! They are all beautiful bags but I will have to say Plum Tart.

  132. Black forest is very cute.

  133. Plum Tart! Drool! =)

  134. Berry Chiffon Cake! :)

  135. Plum tart cake!

  136. Definitely the Key Lime, although… the berry is awfully pretty, no the key lime!

  137. Hmmm….that’s a tough one. I’d say either Black Forest or Key Lime are my favorites!

  138. They are all SO nummy looking…but if forced to chosse I think I would have to pick the Berry Chiffon

  139. Definitely the Key Lime one. Green is my favorite color!

  140. Eeee! So hard to choose but I would go with black forest cake!

  141. Can’t wait to try this recipe! I’m so happy you introduced me to Petunia Picklebottom two years ago; I was pregnant at the time. I never got my bag, they are so expensive, but I would love a chance to win the Berry Chiffon Cake bag now!

  142. Key lime looks too delicious to pass up…but I wouldn’t be too sad if I got the Black Forest either.

  143. Loving the Plum Tart. Beautiful colors!

  144. I love the Berry Chiffon!

  145. Love, love, love, love the cake and bag.

  146. The Black Forest is delightful!

  147. Definately the Plum Tart cake. Lovely!!!

  148. Black Forest! So gorgeous!

  149. I really like them all but the berry Chiffon one might be my favourite!

  150. All the color combos are beautiful, but I think I’ll go with the classic Black Forest Cake.

  151. OMG, how would I even pick one? I want all 4, lol! I think my favorite is the Plum Tarte

  152. i love all of them but my fav is the black forest cake

  153. I soooo love the bags, they are all cute. But my fave is the Black Forest Cake!

  154. I love me some Key Lime Cream Cake!

  155. These are beautiful love the Key Lime!

  156. I would love the black forest one! Such a classic bag.

  157. Black forest cake…for so many reasons.

  158. My eye was immediately drawn to the Black Forest Cake, but they all look amazing!

  159. Black Forest is lovely!

  160. My favorites are the Berry Chiffon on Black Forest. Super cute!

  161. I would adore having the Key Lime Cream Cake. They’re all beautiful.

  162. Oh wow…I would love the berry chiffon cake bag! It is so cute!

  163. The berry chiffon is gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous!

  164. Love the berry chiffon looks so refreshing!

  165. Key Lime!!!!!!! So pretty, yummy, and irresistible!

  166. Key Lime Cream Cake! Key Lime Cream Cake! :)

  167. Key Lime of course!

  168. Berry Chiffon….makes me want to go shopping for goodies and a pink dress!

  169. Wow they all look so purty! And the Black Forest might be more versatile, but I really like the colors in the Plum Tart Cake!

  170. They’re all gorgeous! If you made me pick (and I hope you do!), I guess I’d say the berry chiffon!

  171. Plum Tart Cake. :)

  172. I love every but plum tart cake call for me .

  173. Black Forest Cake looks so good!

  174. Love, love, love your blog and comments and photos of the delicacies you create! The things and thoughts that inspire you are inspiring! Love the BERRY CHIFFON bag :)

    Thank you for your sweet genius!

  175. So beautiful! Perfect summer weather for key lime….it matches everything…and tastes great too!

  176. plum tart!

  177. Oh my gosh! The Black Forest Cake Bag!! They are all so awesome!

  178. Love the key lime cream cake so cute!!!!

  179. me encanto la berry chiffon cake.

    me encanto berry chiffon cake

  180. Wonderful (and I want the bag)!

  181. Oh, Key Lime is awesome. I would be grateful to win any of them!

  182. key lime!!!!!!!!!

  183. All so pretty! But I am a sucker for that Black Forest

  184. Key Lime Cream Cake….all the way!

  185. Ooh I’d love Black Forest!

  186. Lovin the Berry Chiffon…it’s lovely!!

  187. I love the Key lime cream cake so cute!!!

  188. Love them all but I think I like Key Lime Pie the best. Thanks so much! :)

  189. oooooooooh! first of all I want to make the recipie this week! second- loooooooove the bag–like the black forest–black & white goes with everythiing! <3

  190. Your pie looks so yum. My favourite bag is the Berry Chiffon.

  191. Ohhhhh *drooooool* I want them all! But first, the Berry Chiffon Cake! Puhleeeeease!?

  192. I love love love key lime cream cake bag!…It might also because I love key lime…

  193. I love the Plum Tart Cake!

  194. Yum! This is definitely on my to make list! I would go for the Key Lime bag too!

  195. I am definitely a Black Forest cake girl – Chocolate and cherries are the best.

  196. I would like to win the Berry Chiffon Cake bag. I am done having kids (and have an awesome diaper bag already), but I would give it to my sister-in-law who would DIE from happiness!

  197. Love the black forest cake! Goes with everything :)

  198. The cake looks so yummy! I cannot wait to try it. Would love the key lime cake bag, too. Wow, they are all adorable, though.

  199. The Key Lime Cream Cake, of course!

  200. I LOVE them all…….Berry Chiffon or BLack forrest if I was so lucky!!

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