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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. Black Forest Cake, but if I could choose to eat an actual cake, it would be the Key Lime.

  2. My fav is the Berry Chiffon..but ALL of them are gorgeous!

  3. Would love to own the Black Forest Cake bag!

  4. I LOVE the Key Lime Bag!! It is so cute and would easily go with a boy or a girl. Just precious!

  5. I love bags. I love cake. I love bakerella. I am pregnant. I need a bag, and a cake, and perhaps, bakerella.

    Thanks!

    Kelly

  6. Black Forest bag, please. :) Definitely going to try making your cake, too. Thanks for the recipe!

  7. love those bags!

  8. plum tart please!

  9. I love them all but key lime cream cake is best!!!

  10. Ooooo! I’d love to win the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  11. key lime cream cake!!!!

  12. Berry Chiffon Cake!!!

  13. They all look great but I would pick the black forest cake.

  14. I’d pick the Berry Chiffon or Black Forest!

  15. Black Forest or Plum Tart!

  16. I love your blog, your very creative. My favorite bag is Black Forest, as well as the cake!

  17. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win the black forest!

  18. The Key Lime Cream Cake recipe is my initial inspiration for a comment: YUM! Being entered to win a Key Lime Cake handbag is icing on the key lime cake, errr pie. Or cake. I don’t discriminate against either. I’m an equal-opportunity dessert lover!

  19. BLACK FOREST CAKE..

    Love the cake, love the bag even more..

  20. I love the plum tart one. Love ur website too!
    Laurie

  21. wow, tough choice… black forest cake then key lime. Your cake looks WONDERFUL……

  22. black forest! matches my grandbaby theme:)

  23. The Key Lime Cream Cake recipe is my initial inspiration for a comment: YUM! Being entered to win a Key Lime Cake handbag is icing on the key lime cake, errr pie. Or cake. I don’t discriminate against either. I’m an equal-opportunity dessert lover!

  24. Any of them would be wonderful, but Black Forest Cake is my favorite!

  25. I’m so excited to try this key lime cream cake, and I absolutely love the key lime cream cake bag!

  26. Berry chiffon!!!

  27. Love the Black Forest Cake!

  28. Ooh these bags are so gorgeous! I love both the Black Forest and the Berry Chiffon one, but I think the Black Forest bag would be the one I would chose in the end!

  29. Black forest cake. Definitely my favorite both in bag and in cake!

  30. Plum Tart Cake…and oh, your cake looks….amazing, as always. :)

  31. Black Forest Cake for sure!

  32. Black Forest Cake is my favorite!

  33. I love black Forrest cake!!

  34. I love them all, but especially the Berry Chiffon Cake…WOW! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!

  35. I need a new diaper bag, so winning one of these would be awesome!!! I like em all, but if I have to pick I’d choose the Black Forest Cake!

  36. PPB Cake bags are gorgeous and that key lime cake looks beyond delicious! I would have to say that the Plum Tart Cake is my favorite!

  37. My favorite is the plum tart cake!

  38. So hard! I’d have to pick the key lime

  39. Plum tart! yum! Have always wanted one of these!

  40. Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite. Good luck to all!

  41. berry chiffon , those are my favorite colors!

  42. Definitely the Key Lime Cream Cake!!

  43. They are all beautiful….The Black Forest Cake!

  44. Love them all!!! I love the classic look of the Black Forrest but since I have two little girls the Berry Chiffon and Plum Tart would be perfect too! It’s just like trying to decide on one dessert..way too hard when everything looks so good!

  45. Black Forest

  46. Love the cake. Love the bags! I like berry chiffon or black forest….but all would look good with me and all my twins baby gear!

  47. First time to darling website. I adore the plum tart handbag.

  48. I would love the berry chiffon bag. Im getting a bichon shih tzu puppy I would love to carry her in this

  49. Key Lime please!!!

  50. Love these bags, love me some Berry Chiffon!

  51. Black Forest!

  52. Gorgeous bags!
    My favorite is the plum tart cake. But any color will do. Thanks.

  53. I LOVE the Key Lime Cream Cake bag! 1) because I love key lime pie and 2) because I love the color green and all things made in lovely shades of it!

  54. Plum Tart for me – they are all gorgeous!

  55. They are all beautiful. I can’t decide between the Black Forest and the Key Lime Cream.

  56. I think my hubby would melt into a puddle if I made this cake for him. He loves Key Lime.
    Berry Chiffon Cake

  57. Black Forest Cake!

  58. Key Lime cream cake for me!!

  59. All are cute! I love the Plum Tart!

  60. I love your blog – you have so many great ideas! As far the as the bag goes, I really love the plum tart cake with the key lime cream cake as a close second!

  61. I would love the Key Lime bag! You can use it for Summer AND for Winter!! Plus its sooo beautiful!!!

  62. I love the photograph of the Key Lime Cake! It makes me want to run to the kitchen a whip one up! I love the Petunia Pickle Bottom Key Lime Cream Cake bag!

  63. Black Forest Cake for sure!

  64. black forest cake…. Mmmmm so pretty!

  65. My favorite is Plum Tart!! I have to have it!! But I’d be happy having ANY of those bags! Key Lime included! I’d soo rock it!!! :) I hope I win!! :D

  66. I think I’d carry the plum tart and like to eat the key lime! ;D

  67. Plum Tart

  68. Ooooh, the Berry Chiffon bag is GORGEOUS! As is your key lime cream cake – YUM.

  69. I would love to sport that super cute Key Lime Cream Cake bag this summer and fall and winter! So cute!

  70. I would like to win the Berry Chiffon!

  71. I love the Key Lime!! It’s different and beautiful!!!

  72. Black Forest Cake! Beautiful!

  73. Love the…. Black forest cake

  74. I’d love the Black Forest Cake!

  75. I NEED the Plum Tart Cake!! So Pretty :)

  76. I think it just might be Key Lime Cream Cake bag and the cake looks like it would be yummy to eat.

  77. The Black forest cake…

  78. So hard to choose! But if I must, Plum Tart Please :)

  79. Oh I would love the plum tart cake bag! Soooo cute!

  80. I love PPB! Beautiful bags! My favorite is the Black Forest Cake!

  81. I’d love the Black Forest Cake!

  82. I’m liking the berry chiffon!

  83. My favorite bag is the Black Forest Cake!

  84. Black Forest cake and handbag. Yum!

  85. My wife would love the key lime, its in my…I mean her favorite color

  86. Each one looks very tasty….I must say I would have to devour the key lime, uh no, the black forest. It’s so hard to choose…

  87. OMG so beautiful!!!! I would love to get my hands on the black forrest bag! So adorable! & your cake is going in my must try folder. Thanks!

  88. I Loveeee the plum tart!!!!!

  89. Black forrest cake!!

  90. I love me some chocolate! Black Forrest Cake :) But they are all so, so cute!!!

  91. I love the key lime pie!
    I’m a huge fan of you bakerella!!

  92. I like the Black Forest one!!

  93. Plum Tart or Black forest cake – just too cute!!!

  94. I think my favorite is the berry chiffon!!! So beautiful!! Pick me!!!

  95. Black Forest Cake!!

  96. The Black Forest is beautiful

  97. My favorite is the Plum Tart!!! I really hope I win!!

  98. Black forest or berry chiffon! Love all those beautiful colors!

  99. The Key Lime Pie one is so pretty I like it best!!

  100. I like the berry chiffon one!!

  101. Your recipe looks delicious!

    I like the Berry Chiffon style.

  102. The Black Forest Cake looks divine!

  103. I love Black Forest!! But the Key Lime is so pretty too!!

  104. Usually I go with blacks and browns because they go with everything, but I have to say the Berry Chiffon Cake bag is adorable!

  105. Berry chiffon cake! Which sounds like it would be delicious to eat also!

  106. Gotta go with the classy Black Forest Cake.
    The actual Key Lime Pie looks amazing and it could be a contender for my boyfriend’s birthday treat!

  107. Key Lime please! I love it and would still be able to use it as a diaper bag with my little guy then as a cute purse from then on :)

  108. key lime cream… please, and thank you very much! :)

  109. They are all soo beautiful, but I’d probably go with the Black Forest because it is so classic and will go with anything!

  110. Ooooo I’m torn! They’re all fab, and I’m always a sucker for black and white, but if forced I’d choose the berry chiffon!!!

  111. love the plum tart cake one!

  112. The Berry Chiffon is adorable ;D

  113. The Berry Chiffon bag is so cute!

  114. I love the berry, but I would take any of them. Pretty, pretty.

  115. The berry chiffon cake is my favorite!

  116. The berry chiffon is so cute!

  117. Love your blog,….
    The Black Forest Cake looks yummy…

  118. Hmm they are all soo lovely, honestly I’d be happy with ANY of those bags!!!!

  119. Oh, i love them all but my favorite bag is the Black Forest cake!

  120. If I had to choose I would say the Key Lime one! I love green :) I REALLY hope to win!!

  121. I’m digging the Plum Tart Cake.

  122. Hm.. Plum Tart!!! Thank you for the contest! Love the bags! And hope I win!

  123. Ooh who would complain about winning any of these. What a treat, I think the key lime
    Cream cake is my ultimate favorite. I’m
    Going to use this recipe to next week for my 4th of July BBQ. It looks amazing! Can’t wait to see who the lucky winner is;)

  124. I love the Berry Chiffon!!! Wow those are beautiful bags!!

  125. Hm.. The Key Lime is so pretty!! Love the color!

  126. I think I’m leaning toward the plum tart with a close second of berry chiffon. But honestly, they are all beautiful!

  127. Love these bags!! I think that I might go with the black forest.. yum, need some cake now!

  128. Love the Black Forest Cake. And can’t wait to try the Key Lime recipe. Love oil based cakes since I always have problems with butter based. Thanks!!

  129. I love the Black Forest Cake!

  130. I’d like to win Plum tart cake!

  131. I think the Black Forest Cake would be the most versatile for me, though the others are all tempting.

  132. I love all of them….but I pick the Black Forest Cake!

  133. berry chiffon for me please!

  134. Can’t wait to make the Key Lime Cream Cake for a friend’s birthday! Would love the Key Lime Cream Cake bag. Fantastic colors.

  135. I’d love to have the Key Lime Cream Cake! The cake looks delicious and so does the bag!

  136. I would love anyone of them. But my fav would have toy be the Berry C. cake …That is bueatiful..

  137. They are all beautiful but the Black Forest is gorgeous!

  138. They are all so delicious, but I’m lusting after the Key Lime Cream Cake…yummy.

  139. Black forest cake

  140. Berry Chiffon Cake!!!! :D

  141. Plum tart cake sounds yummy , and it looks so pretty!

  142. Plum Tart! Too devine!

  143. Plum tart!

  144. Oooh! I would either choose black forest or berry chiffon.

  145. Plum Tart!

  146. I love all these bags! I would love to have one!!! My favorite is the plum tart!

  147. Beautiful recipe and beautiful bags. I might have to go for the key lime since I love green.

  148. I like the Plum Tart one! Sounds delish…. haha!

  149. Love these and tried the cake very very yummy. I think my favorite is the Black Forest but like the Key Lime too!

  150. I would love the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  151. I would love the plum tart cake for my mom it’s almost her birthday and I’m sure it would make her day!

  152. Love these! My pick is the key lime cream cake bag!

  153. I keep changing between key lime and black forest – I think in the end the black forest wins though.

  154. The berry chiffon. So cute!

  155. They are ALL beautiful but I think I love the Black Forest Cake the best!!!
    Sarah :-)

  156. The black Forest , I need a new bag!

  157. that cake recipe looks amazing!! i would love any of them, but the plum tart is a cute color! thanks for the opportunity!

  158. Any one but the keylime. The other three are beautiful! I am just not a green color girl!

    <3

  159. I have DROOLED over the plum tart color since you posted about the red velvet bag. I have been a frequent visitor on their site, but I can’t justify such an expensive thing for myself, how fun if I won!!! Thanks!!!

  160. I love them all… But my favorite is the Key Lime!

  161. Black forest cake!!!!!!!!

  162. Oh….beautiful, beautiful key lime cake. I’d love to have you for my very own.

  163. Berry Chiffon!

  164. Wow, that Key Lime cake looks so delicious. My favorite bag is the Berry Chiffon Cake! Thank you for giving this opportunity to win one of these beautiful bags!

  165. Plum tart cake most definitely

  166. Definitely th plum tart cake, GORGEOUS!

  167. Plum tart or key lime…. Hard to choose, either way, I will be making the key lime cream cake this afternoon! YUM!

  168. Ooohhhh…I really like the Black Forest Cake!

  169. Key lime for my lovely wife….she loves the green!

  170. I love the berry chiffon, beautiful victorian patterning~
    THANK YOU for offering such a lovely giveaway. :)

  171. The berry chiffon is so pretty. I love the “cake” label on the front! So cute!

  172. I would love the key lime cake, LOVE green…and these bags, beautiful!!

  173. The berry chiffon is calling my name!! Thanks for the chance to win!

  174. Key lime….favorite desert and bag!!!!! YUM-O!!!

  175. Black forest Cake pleaseee! :D

  176. I love the greens in the key lime cream cake. And I am about to have a new baby, I would totally carry it as a diaper bag!

  177. The cake looks awesome– can’t wait to try it! Berry Chiffon Cake is my fav bag!

  178. This would make a great gift for my wife. She likes chocolate, so I will say Black Forest Cake

  179. I love them all… But my favorite is the black & the key lime!

  180. I would pick the Black Forrest Cake. I have had my eye on that one for awhile and love it!

  181. LOVE the plum tart!!

  182. Berry Chiffon, please! They are all adorable.

  183. I like them all but my favourite is the Black Forest Cake.

  184. key lime, for the wife:)

  185. Love the key lime pie!

  186. The Black Forest Cake bag will go with so many things. I love the fabric and the details!

  187. Black Forest Cake is the one!!

  188. I love some black forrest cake!!

  189. Love the Key Lime bag…….and cake! My husband’s birthday is next month and he loves Key Lime so I’m going to make this cake for him. Thanks!

  190. I think I would have to go with the Plum Tart, but they’re all so pretty!

  191. The berry chiffon is my favorite.

  192. Black Forest Cake…now I am wanting to bake one for myself to eat! Yes baking and purses go together well :)

  193. Black Forest Cake is my favorite

  194. Black forest!!!!! its awesome!

  195. I LOVE the Key Lime Cream Cake!!

  196. Berry chiffon cake to coordinate with my Ppb diaper bag!

  197. oh i love them all and have wanted one forever! i’m most drawn to the berry chiffon or the plum tart…ok b.c.! so dang cute

  198. They all have so yummy colors!
    My fav is definitely Black Forest Cake, but Plum Tart Cake made me think for a while… :-)

  199. Black Forrest Cake or the Key Lime Cream Cake. Either would be lovely.

  200. First off, how absolutely delish does that cake of yours look! Yummy! I would love either the key lime or black forest – either one you can’t go wrong!:)

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