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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. I love the berry chiffon!!

  2. Key Lime Cream Cake…divine! And the recipe looks delicious…can’t wait to try it! Thank you!

  3. Any flavor would be amazing, but the key lime pie is simply gorgeous and exotic!

  4. Key lime cream cake! It’s adorable :)

  5. Key lime!!!!!!! I love green, so this bag is exactly my colour!

  6. love them all but would have to go with Berry Chiffon!

  7. love these bags….I like Plum Tart Cake

  8. The key lime pie would be my choice because it has the most vibrant color scheme. Oh pick me!

  9. I really love the Plum Tart Cake! Love your blog btw! :)

  10. Plum tart or black forest, yummy!

  11. Omg! They are all so cute! I would love any one of them, but if I had to choose I’d go with the Key Lime Cream Cake, but the Plum Tarte Cake is a close second!

  12. black forest or berry chiffon- they both look and sound amazing! Now i want cake :)

  13. I love all the flavors!! but I especially like your plum tart cake! Hoping to win one of your GREAT give aways!

  14. I love the Black Forest Cake bag.

  15. Plum tart. 1 more hr to go

  16. they all look yummy. can’t decide but really – ya think i’ll win???

  17. I’m going to make this cake on vacation! It looks wonderful.

    My favorite is the key lime pie bag :)

  18. They all look SO delicious! I’m leaning towards the Berry Chiffon. My little daughter said, ” that looks the berry bestest one”. I agree!

  19. My favorite treats are Key Lime Pie & Black Forest Cake; what a terribly difficult decision to have to make, in desserts or bags! I think I’d go with the Black Forest bag, but would be overjoyed to have any “flavor”!

  20. Love them all but extra love to black forest cake.

  21. Key Lime Cream! Beautiful!!

  22. I want to eat all four flavors, but for the bags I think the Black Forest is my favorite =).

  23. Black forest cake for sure!!! Love it!

  24. Wow…make me choose huh? Well I like them all, but if I must select…It would be the Black Forest, followed by Berry Chiffon

  25. Berry Chiffon Cake please.

  26. Black Forest Cake. I could use this all year long!

  27. Why of course the Key Lime Cream Cake. It”s just darling!

  28. My wife had me enter this, she likes the key lime!

  29. Ohhh, they all look so good! But I vote for the Key Lime Cream Cake! Bet it is delicicous!

  30. It’s so hard to choose because I love them all, but I would have to say the Black Forest. Thanks for the great giveaway!!

  31. I love all of them! If I had to choose, I would probably go with the Key Lime Pie one! Adorable!

  32. I love the Plum Tart Cake!! Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  33. Plum Tart Cake sounds so delicious!! Love the colors too! :D

  34. Berry chiffon <3

  35. Black Forest Cake !!! :)

  36. Key Lime

  37. Plum Tart Cake!!! but honestly they are all sooo pretty

  38. Love the Black Forest Cake! Thanks for all your great recipes, planning to make some of the 4th of July goodies for gift giving next week.

  39. They are all great, but Key Lime is the best. Thanks for the chance to win.

  40. Key Lime Cream Cake bag is amazing! That is absolutely “my” color scheme. :)

  41. Black forest!

  42. I love the Black Forrest or Berry Chiffon.

  43. I love the Key Lime Cream Cake one! The colors!

  44. The plum tart is my favorite! Thanks for the lovely giveaway…

  45. I love them! I’d choose Berry Chiffon =)

  46. The Berry Chiffon looks so good!

  47. Berry Chiffon!!

  48. I love the bag! The Berry Chiffon Cake is really cute!! Love the pink and grey!

  49. Berry Chiffon s’il vous plait…

  50. The Berry Chiffon bag is my fave! It is so pretty:)

  51. Those bags are georgeous, my favorite is the Key Lime!

    That cake is so yummy looking, you are so, so talented!

  52. Berry Chiffon!! YUM! :)

  53. My favorite is the key lime!! Pick me, pick me! Love the recipe too!

  54. So pretty! I can’t decide between Berry Chiffon and Black Forest. Delish :)

  55. The hubby loves key lime pie – I’ll have to try this cake recipe this weekend. Who knows, he may buy me the Black Forest Cake!

  56. My favorite is the key lime!! Pick me, pick me!

  57. I love the Black Forest Cake!

  58. My favpoorite is Black Forest Cake……but all are beautiful!
    Thanks for the chance!

    Marcia

  59. These are so cute….I would choose the Black Forest one!

  60. They are all so cute!! I LOVE Black Forest Cake :-) What a cute and fun giveaway! Thanks, Bakerella!!

  61. So hard to choose between the Plum Tart and Black Forest, but if I have to choose, I say Plum Tart wins out!

  62. Berry Chiffon! Woooot!

  63. I need these for my Twin Grandgirls!! Love the PLum Tart!! Key Lime is absolutely my favorite in any dessert.

  64. Plum Tart Cake!!!

  65. These are really gorgeous bags. The key lime is a perfect color combo for a girl like me who loves green and wears lots of earthy colors. I also kinda love the berry chiffon.

  66. Love the key lime!!

  67. Berry Chiffon Cake!

  68. The Plum Tart Cake bag is just plum devine!

  69. Mmmmm, all about Black Forest Cake!!!

  70. The Black Forest is gorgeous!

  71. i love the plum tart cake bag!

  72. So cute! But definitely would have to pick the berry chiffon

  73. Pick me! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Plum Tart Cake!!

  74. I would love any of them, but my favorite is the black forest cake :)

  75. They are all really pretty, but I think I’d choose the black forest cake!

  76. black forest cake is gorgeous!

    I have been eyeing these bags for ages!

  77. Black Forest Cake is my favorite bag selection.

  78. Berry Chiffon Please!!

  79. All of my favorites, but have to go with the Black Forest!! Can’t ever go wrong with chocolate! Such a versatile cake and a versatile hand bag, too!

  80. Key lime is divine, but I think the Plum Tart could be life-altering. Gimme, please?

  81. Those are adorable!! I’d go with the Black Forest Cake!! :)

  82. As Key Lime pie is one of my favorite desserts and I just had a wonderful lunch where I was able to finish it off with a slice of pie & a cup of decadent coffee, I have to say Key Lime Cream Cake. I need to make this cake…soon.

  83. I cannot wait to make that Key Lime Cream Cake….looks so incredibly delicious!!!!

    As for the giveaway, I am swooning over the Berry Chiffon Cake bag and would love that one!

  84. I like the black forrest cake!

  85. I love the Black Forest Cake.

  86. I Love the black forest and the plum tart. I don’t know which I’d choose!

  87. I think the Key Lime has it.

  88. I think the Berry Chiffon Cake and the Key Lime Cream are a tie in my book! They’re both adorable!

  89. Black Forest Cake all the way! Not only is it one of my favorite types of cakes, you can never go wrong with black!

  90. I could easily fall in love with the Black Forest Cake!

  91. If I MUST pick JUST one, it would be Berry Chiffon!

  92. Plum tart looks great!

  93. The Black Forest Cake, but they are all lovely.

  94. They all look SO delicious!! But I’m leaning towards the Berry Chiffon Cake. My little daughter says, “it looks the berry bestest one!” I have to agree!

  95. key lime cheesecake, yum!

  96. I’m loving the key lime cake one!! so pretty!

  97. I love, love, love the Black Forest one!!! and I can’t wait to make the Key lime cake!!!

  98. Oh my word, they’re all so adorable. I love how names add a cuteness factor of 1000% My pick would be the black forest cake.

  99. I would love to have the black forest cake bag but they are all beautiful.

  100. Thanks so much for a key lime recipe in which the eggs are actually cooked! I crave this flavor constantly, but am too chicken to make actual key lime pie, lest I poison my entire family with raw eggs. This cake should work nicely in the pie’s place :)
    P.S. – The Berry Chiffon bag is yummy ;)

  101. I wish I could reach through my screen and get a piece of that cake! Ugh, it looks so yummy!

    I like the Plum tart bag the best! :)

  102. I’d love the black forest cak the best – it looks so very classic in the black & white, but I’d actually love any of them! There look beautiful & delicious!

  103. I think the Berry Chiffon Cake looks delicious! Would love to win one!

  104. Key Lime Cream Pie, please!!

  105. Ooh! All those bags look so cute, but I think if I had a choice I’d pick the berry chiffon one, although the black forest one is equally as cute :)

  106. YUM! That cake looks awesome.

    My favorite bag also just happens to be the Key Lime Cream Cake. I love green!

  107. Although, I just used your recipient for key lime cake, I think my baby girl Reagan (EDD 9/9/12) would prefer Berry Chiffon Cake…pink!! Thanks for helping me cure my pregnancy craving for Keylime pie and cake! It was out of tis world!

  108. Would love the Black Forest Cake!

  109. Plum Tart Cake!!!

  110. I love the Key Lime bag! It’s gorgeous….

  111. Berry Chiffon all the way!

  112. black forest cake please!

  113. I love the black forest bag!

  114. I have been wanting one of these forever!! My fave is the key lime-they are all SO gorgeous though!!

  115. Black Forest! :D But they are all cute.

  116. Even though I love key lime, I am swooning over the black forest cake!

  117. Looks tasty! I love anything key lime flavored.

    Love the Berry Chiffon bag!

  118. I would absolutely love to win the plum tart bag because I love the colours and the cake itself! So why wouldn’t I want to have a bag that expresses me?

  119. Black Forest Cake! anything with cherry in it is always awesome. and the bag is just so classic!

  120. My wife would love me forever if I won this. I think she would pick the plum tart cake bag.

  121. That cake looks delicious, but as for the bags, I like Berry Chiffon or Plum Tart! I’m just a sucker for pinks.

  122. The cake looks SO good! I think I would definitely love the Black Forest bag. :)

  123. for sure, the key lime pie is beautiful!!

  124. Definitely the Black Forest Cake! It’s gorgeous!

  125. black forest…to go along with my black forest cake obsession!

  126. Normally I would be a Black Forest, but I’m going a little wild and say plum tart

  127. I’d be happy with any of them, but the berry chiffon cake seems to be calling my name the most right now!

  128. favorite is Berry Chiffon

  129. That Key Lime bag, I mean Cake looks DELICIOUS!

  130. Black Forest Cake is definitely my food & fashion style!

  131. Berry Chiffon Cake!! just pops out for me

  132. SO hard to choose but my favorite is Berry Chiffon :)

  133. Black Forest – very classy.

  134. As much as I love all of them…the Black Forest is the best!

  135. Berry Chiffon! They’re all beautiful and I love your blog!!!!

  136. I would love the key lime or berry chiffon. I have always wanted one of these bags!

  137. I love the Berry Chiffon Bag – can’t wait to try your key lime cake – YUMMY!

  138. Definitely the Key Lime Pie without a doubt! The colors are absolutely gorgeous :)

  139. Love the Black Forest bag!!

  140. No contest its the black forest cake! Reminds me of Germany :)

  141. Oh, I just love the Key Lime Pie. Gorgeous.

  142. Mmmm, berry chiffon for sure!

  143. Love the Berry Chiffon, sweet :)

  144. The berry chiffon is gorgeous!

  145. Plum Tart Cake!!!

  146. I would Looooooovvvvveeee the Black Forest Cake bag!!! I have been swooning over it for months and saving up to purchase it!!!!!

  147. I am stuck between the Plum Tart Cake and The Black Forest Cake. I would choose the Blake Forest Cake! PPB makes the most gorgeous bags! :)

  148. Black Forest for me please. My birthday is 7/7 and I think a new purse is just the right thing I need.

    Also that key lime cake looks delicious. Definitely attempting to make it for my MIL for her August birthday.

  149. They are all adorable!! But I would LOVE the Key lime pie bag! Thanks!

  150. I love the Black Forest Cake!, super cute!

  151. Key Lime Cream Cake! Yum! = )

  152. Mmmmmm, Black forest cake!

  153. Black forest cake is my favorite!

  154. That plum tart bag is gorgeous! :) can’t wait to try out this cake, because key lime is my ABSOLUTE favorite!

  155. Berry Chiffon please!

  156. Today is my 19th wedding anniversary and black forest would be the cherry on top!

  157. They’re all amazing, but I’d have to go for Plum Tart Cake.

  158. Berry Chiffon Cake…YUM!

  159. Berry Chiffon!!! oh no…Black forest…. no Berry……LOVE THEM!!

  160. Wow ! The bags are gorgeous … any one of them I would be tickled pickled pink with. Maybe Berry Chiffon.
    Now how about that cake ???? That is a must try !!

  161. Ooooo…Berry Chiffon Cake, pretty please!!

  162. Berry Chiffon or Plum Tart! Cute bags for sure!

  163. I think I’d have to go with the always-classy and matches-with-anything Black Forest Cake bag. Thanks for the giveaway!

  164. I’d be happy to carry any of them but the Key Lime is gorgeous! I’ve always admired the Cake bags.

  165. The Black Forest Cake bag is gorgeous!

  166. The berry chiffon!!

  167. Loving the Black Forest! Perfect for a boy or girl!

  168. I’d love the bag plum tart!! These are so cute! Oh and I love love love your ideas…thanks for all the inspiration!!

    Ann Marie

  169. thanks for also sharing your scruptious looking cake! i can’t wait to try this recipe! as for my favorite ppb cake bag…any color/flavor is great! i’ll take anyone! mahalo!

  170. Berry Chiding is my fav!

  171. I would love to win the plum tart flavor, but they are all gorgeous!!

  172. Key Lime. So beautiful!

  173. Love your blog, I’m a big fan I own a pastry shoppe in Texas. Just gave birth a week ago to a very healthy 9lb baby boy!!! Would love this bag in the Key Lime Cream Cake!!

  174. I love the black forest cake!!! also love your blog!

  175. Black Forest Cake. So delicious. What a great gift to give your fans. Thank You. Katherine

  176. I would love the Plum Tart Cake!! Oh and check this product out: http://www.pastrychef.com/CAKE-LAYER-SLICING-KIT_p_2036.html

  177. Plum Tart Cake….I’m all about the PINK!

  178. The Black Forest Cake! Simply scrumptious!

  179. Ohhh! The Berry Chiffon is divine! <3

  180. The cake looks scrumptious! Can’t wait to try it. The bag would be a wonderful extra!

  181. The baby im brewing in my belly would love a piece of that cake! BOTH cakes! After I make meyself some of that Key Lime deliciousness I’d love me some Black Forest!

  182. Plum Tart looks yummy!

  183. They are all so beautiful — it’s very hard to decide. My favorite is the key lime :)

  184. Berry chiffon!

  185. I’d go with the Key Lime Cream Cake.

  186. Love the Black Forest Cake. I’m actually due in December, but this might make a fun camera bag, too!

  187. So clever! I’d love to win the Black Forest Cake bag.

  188. Berry Chiffon

  189. This baby I’m brewing in my belly really wants a piece of that cake! BOTH cakes! After I make myself some Key Lime Cake, I’d sure love a piece of that Black Forest!

  190. Love the Berry Chiffon

  191. It’s a hard choice, but I’d pick the Plum Tart Cake!

  192. Black Forest!

  193. I think I’d choose the berry chiffon, but they are ALL wonderful!

  194. Plum Tart Cake, but I love them all!!

  195. I would want the key lime one! I would like the key lime cake too :)

  196. Probably Black Forest, but maybe Key Lime – they’re both so cute!

  197. You are AMAZING! first that cake looks so delish! and the purse giveaway! its too much! either way, thanks and i love the berry chiffon cake!

  198. My favorite is the berry chiffon cake!

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