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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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4,990 comments on “Key Lime Cream Cake”

  1. Black Forest Cake for me.

  2. Key Lime Cream Cake all the way!
    Making this delectible recipe for our 4th of July celebration!
    Thank you!!!

  3. Plum Tart…reminds me of my grandmothers couch.

  4. I’d really like a sampler platter, but if I have to choose one? Black Forrest Cake!

  5. Black Forest Tort would be my pick. Thanks for sharing!

  6. I like them all but I would choose the black forest cake just because it goes best with most of my wardrobe
    :)

  7. Gorgeous- love the key lime!

  8. The berry chiffon is super cute!

  9. All of these are so beautiful. I love the Black Forest Cake!! Thanks Bakerella!

  10. They are all super cute, but I think Berry Chiffon is my favorite!

  11. key lime – plum tart….. key lime – plum tart oh which to choose…… PLUM TART WINS!!!!!

  12. I love the key like bag!! It makes me so hungry : )

  13. This cake looks amazing!!!! I want to try and make this one!

  14. Key Lime is key…those lovely greens win!

  15. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  16. Oh My. I love the Black Forest Cake.

  17. I like the Black Forest Cake!! Beautiful!

  18. OOOOOHhh, the berry chiffon– just delightful :)

  19. Oh Key Lime Summer ! My Fav Key Lime. This way you can have the CAKE and eat it too!

  20. It’sa tough decision because I really like the Key Kime, but I think I like the Black Forest better!

  21. I love the Black Forest Cake! Thanks for the chance to win one!

  22. These are all so cute! :-) I like the Berry Chiffon Cake bag the best!

  23. Oh I love the Key Lime…beautiful!

  24. Black forest cake mmmmmmmmmm

  25. This is so nice of you! I’m definitely making the cake and if I won I’d love the Black Forest Cake bag, but love them all. :)

  26. I like the Berry Chiffon!

  27. I love the key lime bag! (Green is my favorite color, so…) These look like very awesome bags, and I am so in need of a (good) new diaper bag. Thank you for the chance to win this! And, that cake, btw, looks very yummy. I might have to put it on my “try this asap” list! :)

  28. The Plum Tart Cake please. oh my incredible!

  29. The plum tart cake bag is super cute!

  30. First off let me start by saying that cake looks amazing! I cannot wait to try my hands at making it…with that said ,If I won I would love either the plum tart cake or black forest cake they are both awesome. :O)

  31. Key Lime Cream Cake…most definately!!! :)

  32. Key Lime is the best!

  33. Key Lime Cream Cake

  34. Key lime please!

  35. Love the Plum Tart Cake!

  36. Black Forest Cake is my favorite!

  37. Definitely the Berry Chiffon Cake. Delish and adorable!

  38. I would love the Key Lime Cream Cake bag! I love anything green! I follow your blog via my google reader (rss feed) and I have so many recipes “starred” for future reference!

  39. The Black Forest Cake bag is my favorite…. is so elegant!!!!

  40. Today is my first day in the Ivf process. The Black Forest Cake bag would be a nIce treat.

    Thank you for your blog!

  41. Key Lime Cream Cake :o)

  42. Key Lime Creme Cake!

  43. Ohhhh my I’ve loved the key lime bag for a while now! I would love to win! I wish I was as amazing as Bakerella!

  44. I love the Berry Chiffon–and I can’t wait to try the cake. Key Lime is my Dad’s favorite and with his bday next week–it looks like the perfect time to try it!

  45. Key Lime would be the best fit for me for this bag, with our first baby due in September! My favorite color is green and I just love key lime pie, too – what a find!

  46. If I am going to be honest, I would say I prefer ALL OF THEM!!! Ok, just one? That Plum Tarte one is awefully cute and calling my name….

  47. The Berry Chiffon is beautiful!

  48. Yummy!!! Love the recipe and all the bags :). How incredible two of my favorite things……food and fashion!!!!

  49. Black Forrest Cake!! I would be able to use with more outfits. haha

  50. Berry chiffon cake please!!!

  51. Difficult choice, all are so cute. I guess Black Forest. Maybe Berry Chiffon. :) thank you

  52. Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite bag! And I love your cake! It looks delicious!!!

  53. They are all so beautiful. The Plum Tart is my favorite though!

  54. Can’t wait to try that recipe. I think my favorite bage is the Black Forest Cake.

  55. Definitely the Black Forest Cake one!

  56. Berry Chiffon!

  57. That lovely Berry Chiffon would be perfect!

  58. berry chiffon please… and I have to make the key lime cake for a surprise for my cousin.

  59. My favorites are a tie – Plum Tar Cake and Black Forest Cake. Funnily enough those are the two flavors I like of the four as well!

  60. They are all beautiful but I think I like Black Forest Cake the best!

  61. They are all gorgeous!!! Black Forest maybe?

  62. Hummm, I fell in love with the Berry Chiffon Cake one. Thank you very much for inspiring us!!!

  63. Black forest cake!!!

  64. Ooh! Black Forest for sure! What gorgeous bags!

  65. Black Forest Cake! I love the whole line of Cake bags so much I honestly want them all, but I’m about to have a boy and that seems the most…practical?

  66. I’m loving the berry chiffon cake bag. I love gray mixed with almost any color. I am definitely making this cake in the next few days! Thank you for all of your darling recipes. They are always a hit in my house.

  67. I would choose either the Black Forest cake or the Berry Chiffon. How cute absolutely yummy are these bags!!!! I LOVE them!!!! I can’t wait to try the recipe you posted either, my husband loves Key Lime pie. His birthday is in July, what a better surprise than Key Lime cake. Thanks for your inspiration!!!

  68. I fell in love with the Black Forest Cake One!!! Great giveaway :)

  69. They are all beautiful! Key Lime Cream Cake is my favorite!

  70. Love these bags! I’d go with the Berry Chiffon – so cute!

  71. Either Black Forest or Plum Tart. Or maybe Key Lime Cream. They’re all cute!

  72. Black forest cake for all the right reasons! But I admit indecisive me likes the key lime too….or chiffon. Crud!

  73. Black forest Cake! :)

  74. The Berry Chiffon Cake is very different and refreshing – it’s super cute and I’d love to be the proud owner of this bag!

  75. Black Forest Cake…love it!!!

  76. Hey there! I love the Berry Chiffon it matches my 4 month old daughter Rosemary’s room. Love your blog! I love making people smile when they see what I made from your site.

  77. The Black Forest Cake is sooo pretty and elegant!

  78. key lime!! But I love the black forest too!!

  79. I love the key lime cream cake bag! Green is my favorite color. The bag is a dreamy color of green!

  80. I love Petunia Pickle Bottom! The Key Lime bag and the Cake look amazing.

  81. Love love the Key LIme………as green is my favorite color, even my golf club grips are green. Thanks for the opportunity!

  82. Berry chiffon or key lime!

  83. I love the Berry Chiffon cake bag!! So cute!

  84. Very nice! I like the Plum Tart bag!

  85. I LOVE the Key Lime & Black Forest, so hard to choose, really all of them are beautiful. I am going to say Key Lime, would love to try this cake sometime, Key Lime Pie or Cheesecake is one of my favorites. Thanks for chance at the Giveaway.

  86. Key Lime! Adorable. And it would be perfect timing – I’m becoming a foster mom next month!

  87. Key Lime for sure, but truly, I’d make use of any one of them – and I love that you have given us permission to not need it as a diaper bag – – –

  88. I’m a little torn between the Key Lime Pie and the Black Forest. While the green is so fun, I’d honestly probably end up using the Black Forest more. So I guess I’d go with Black Forest.

  89. OOOOOOO I love the Plum Tart! Beautiful

  90. I love the Plum Tart Cake!

  91. They are all beautiful but love the Plum tart cakethe best and the Key lime cake is going to be perfect for a dinner I’m having. Thank you so much

  92. Yummmmmy….the cool lime is perfect for this hot weather.
    And that Berry Chiffon is dreeeeeeamy!

  93. wow–thank you for the giveaway!!! I like them all-not fussy–but I like the plum or black forest best.

  94. the one you want to give me…My God all of them are GORGEOUS!

  95. Plum Tart! Thank you!!

  96. Plum Tart Cake, such a pretty color!

  97. black forest cake, please. or maybe berry chiffon. gaaaah… so hard to decide!!

  98. These’s an instant connection between me and the Berry Chiggon bag! I want to say it’s love at first sight! LOL! :-)

  99. Adorable cake and bags <3 berry chiffon cake!

  100. Black Forest Cake

  101. I LOVE the Black Forest Cream Cake bag.

  102. I’ll be trying the Key Lime Cake this week – it looks divine!
    My favorite bag, though, would have to be Black Forest Cake.

  103. Cake and Cake, what more could you ask for? Key Lime Cream Cake all the way! OUTSTANDING! As a matter of fact, friends stopped by on Saturday and brought some. I have one piece left in the frig – well at least for the moment. ;-)

  104. The Key Lime is gorgeous! That’s definitely the one to win. It’s my birthday week, and this would be a great present to myself :o)

  105. I can’t pick ONE!! ;)
    But if I must, then the Plum Torte…with Black Forest coming in a close second!

  106. Hmmm…they are all so awesome! The Berry Chiffon is my favorite, though, followed by the Plum Tart…

  107. I love the black forest bag, it’d go with so much! But really, I’d take any of them, because sine you first posted the red velvet clutch I have been OBSESSED with Petunia Picklebottom Bags. I tell everyone about them and I don’t even have a kid!

  108. I would love the Plum Tart Cake!! How cute and what a great name!!

  109. Thanks for this recipe! My daughter will love it on her birthday!! I’m going to try it in cupcakes to take to work.

    If I was to win, the Black Forest looks perfect! Oh, Black Forest Cupcakes…..hmmm…to the kitchen I go!

  110. LOVE Berry Chiffon’s color combo! I’m a sucker for anything pink! Thanks for a chance to win!

  111. I love the idea of having a handbag matching cake (or vice versa, for that matter, LOL).

    They all look yummie (and so are the cakes that go with them) but I would definitely chose the Berry Chiffon.

  112. Yum … I may need to celebrate a case of the mondays with this recipe! I love the Black Forest bag – sooo cute and sounds yummy!

  113. The cake looks delicious!
    Black forest bag, please. :)

  114. Plum Tart cake! Beautiful!

  115. The key lime cream cake I think is my favorite but the Black Forest Cake is a close second. :)

  116. Berry Chiffon Cake!

  117. All of them! They are all great, but I guess that key lime is the best!

  118. We just had Black Forest Cake for our Father’s Day celebration so that is DEFINITELY our choice!!

  119. Berry Chiffon…classy!

  120. The black forest cake, I think. They are all so pretty.

  121. First I have to say my favorite pie is Key Lime Pie so this cake??? It looks awesome and I will try it this weekend! Then I’d have to say I like the Berry Chiffon Cake purse — because of the pink/grey combonation and because how good does a berry chiffon cake sound? Am I right lol?

    Love your blog, your creativity and your inspiration — THANK YOU!!

  122. Black Forest Cake! I want to give it to my little sister for her birthday on Tuesday :)

  123. I love them all, but I love the Black Forest Cake the best!

  124. Ummm…piece of cake!
    I lurrrrrve the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  125. Love the Black Forest one!

  126. I wish I could frost a cake like that!! But I will keep practicing :)

    Those bags are gorgeous, so hard to decide… But I think berry chiffon for me (I *would* use it as a diaper bag, but it would be so lovely for going out without the baby too!).

  127. I like Black Forest Cake!

  128. Love this cake….. lol and wouldn’t mined the bag either.

  129. That berry chiffon cake is to DIE for :-)

  130. Plum tart is amazing.

  131. I’d pick the berry chiffon. YUM!

  132. Black Forrest Cake because it’s classy and would go with a lot! Adorable purse!!

  133. I love the Black Forest Cake purse!!

  134. The key lime came looks yummy!
    My favorite bag color combo is black forest. It would make a lovely gift for my birthday on Friday!

  135. Gosh, I truly love them all! I will choose the Plum Tart Cake! So pretty!

  136. I love these bags! They are all so pretty, but I think my favorite is the Black Forest Cake one. That key lime cream cake looks absolutely amazing! Thanks for doing the giveaway!

  137. Ooh, how about black forest cake.

  138. My favor is the Black Forest Cake… The Key Lime Cake looks amazing. I may try my hand at it for Fourth of July. Yummy!

  139. I love the Berry Chiffon!!! =)

  140. I can’t wait to make the key lime cream cake, but I’ll go with the Black Forest bag. Thanks Bakerella!

  141. I love the plum tart cake. Sooo cute!!

  142. LOVE THEM! i would take the berry chiffon

  143. Berry Chiffon is so pretty! That cake looks delicious, too. :)

  144. Black forest cake! But they’re all gorgeous!

  145. The Key Lime Cake is stunning!!! Today’s blog has inspired me to hit the grocery store to get the necessary ingredients for Key Lime Cake.

  146. I absolutely love the Black Forest bag!!!

  147. I love the cake and the bags! I would love a Berry Chiffon bag.

  148. hmmm…. Berry Chiffon or Plum Tart, I think!!

  149. I am loving the Plum Tart bag.

    This cake looks AMAZING! I can’t wait to give it a try.

  150. Oh! Plum Tart Cake is AMAZING. Thank you so much.

  151. I love the berry chiffon.

  152. They all look beautiful but if I have to choose, the Key Lime Cream Cake!

  153. I would LOVE to win the key lime cream pie “flavored” purse :)

    Key lime pie is my favorite, however, I’m having weight loss surgery next month, so NO MORE key lime pie for me! :(

  154. I love the berry chiffon!!

  155. Your Key Lime cake looks yummy, but I think I’d rather have a slice of that Plum Tart Cake purse!!

  156. Berry Chiffon Cake!!!!

  157. My favorite is Key Lime Cream Cake.

  158. as a lover of all things cake, i want all of them!! but …..i would say i would choose the black forest since it’s classic and timeless and would go with anything!

  159. Ooh, the plum tart is be-you-ti-full! Thank you so much for sponsoring this giveaway again!

  160. I love them all!! But if I have to pick, I would go with the Black Forest Cake only because it would match my wardrobe the most!!

  161. Black Forest cake~! (:

  162. Definitely Key Lime Cream Cake! I love GREEN!

  163. The Key Lime Cream Cake for sure!

  164. Black Forest!!!!! Yummy!!!!!!

  165. I love that Plum Tart bag – SO cute and fashionable!

  166. I love the Plum Tart Cake!

  167. The key lime is amazing!

  168. Key Lime Cream Cake!

  169. They all are so cute but i would have to say the key lime. That green is such a fun color.

  170. I would first like a slice of the plum tart, and then if we’re allowed seconds, I will go back for some key lime pie!!

  171. Hmmm.. I’d have to pick Black Forest Cake!

  172. These are all adorable but I think I like the Key Lime Cream the best!

  173. Berry Chiffon Cake! It would look so cute after Thanksgiving when I will actually need a diaper bag :)
    And, can’t wait to try this recipe!

  174. I’d love the black forest cake!

  175. They are gorgeous!! I love them all so it is hard to pick a favorite, I am partial to green so I would tend to go for the Key Lime Creme cake but I love the plum tart cake too!

  176. Mmmm….Berry Chiffon, please!

  177. the berry chiffon is so cute!

  178. hey bakerella,

    i am from bangalore, india. i love to bake ! i don’t know whether i am eligible for the contest! anyways, my pick would be plum tart, bcoz i love plums and i happened to purchase a dress for my birthday few days ago which goes well with the bag!
    thanx and regards.

  179. The cake looks amazing! I like the Berry Chiffon one & the Black Forest one. All of the bags are beautiful though.

  180. Plum tart cake looks delicious to me!

  181. My favorite is the Black Forest Cake!

  182. The Plum Tart is gorgeous!

  183. Mmmmm – Berry Chiffon!!

  184. black forest – put they all look great! (yummy!)

  185. I would love the Black Forest Cake. It’s one of my favorite desserts but it would match with a lot of my decorating scheme already, which is largely black and white. Love these bags!

  186. my favorite is the plum tart cake! I love the colors!

  187. I love all things Key lime — including that bag! Will be trying the cake soon.

  188. They are all so pretty, but I like the plum tart one best!

  189. Berry chiffon cake bag! Cute!

  190. Key Lime Cream Cake is delish! And the bag is just beautiful.

  191. Loving the Key Lime Cream Cake! They all look so yummy!

  192. That cake is beautiful, I LOVE the idea of putting the crumbs up the side!

    And like the cake, I think I like the Key Lime Cream Cake bag the most. I think I am addicted to greens!

  193. I love the black forest cake!

  194. Love the key lime bag!

  195. Plum tart cake! It’s so cute!

  196. PlumTart!!! Looks good enough to EAT ;)

    Now about that CAKE….to die for!

  197. Ohhh sign me up for Key Lime please!

  198. Oh, i’d like the Plum Tart cake! It looks amazing. I love the colors. Black forest cake is really nice too and it brings back childhood memories.

  199. One of each, please? :) In all seriousness, I adore the Berry Chiffon Cake. They’re all beautiful and look very functional… but that one just calls my name. If only I could afford it, I could be a more stylish mom and still carry around the kitchen sink!

  200. The Black Forest one is my favourite!

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