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Key Lime Cake Recipe From Scratch Paula Deen

Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time50 minutes
Course: dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 2/4 cup softened butter
  • 2 cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp key lime zest
  • 3 large-sized eggs
  • 1/4 cups key lime juice fresh
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 1 tbsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

For white chocolate frosting

  • 6 1 ounce white chocolate baking square
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 1 tbsp vanilla essence
  • 5 cups confectioners sugar

Instructions

  • First of all, you have to treat your oven. So, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Moreover, lubricate the cake pans with butter or oil and also flour them.
  • Take a large-sized bowl and beat butter with sugar in it using an electric beater. You can also you a hand blender but the electric beater makes the combining easy for you.
  • In the next step add the lime zest in and beat until you attain a creamy mixture.
  • One by one break and add the eggs to this beaten mixture. Also, beat in the fresh lime juice.
  • Take another medium-sized bowl and combine the baking soda with the cake flour. Now add the buttermilk, and the flour mixture in the beaten egg and butter mixture gradually while making folds.
  • Then pour this mixture smoothly into the greased cake pans. Bake your cake mixture for 20-25 minutes.
  • You can check if the cake is baked by inserting a toothpick in the center of the cake. After baking let it settle and cook for 10 minutes.

How to prepare white chocolate frosting

  • Combine chocolate with cream in a bowl. Microwave this mixture in the oven to melt all the chocolate. Then, let it cool.
  • Then in a large bowl combine the chocolate mixture with vanilla and butter. Beat the mixture and then add the confectioners' sugar to this mixture. Beat well.
  • Spread this white chocolate frosting in the layers, at the top and drizzling from the sides of the cake.
  • Garnish with key lime wedges, if you like.