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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. I love the black forest cake! They are all beautiful bags though!

  2. Key Lime Cream Cake! Green is my favorite color!

  3. Key Lime – perfect color, perfectly summery treat – I need to make some Key Lime cream cake this week! Thanks!!

  4. OOOOH!! I love the Key Lime Cream Cake bag…yum!

  5. Those are scrumptious! I love the key lime cream cake!

  6. Black Forest Cake for me please!!!

  7. They are all cute but the Black Forrest Cake is my fav!

  8. Plum Tart Cake!

  9. Oooh so pretty! Love the Black Forest :-]

  10. Oooh that Key Lime Cake recipe looks absolutely devine!! It is definitely a must try recipe! As for the handbag, I would chose the Berry Chiffon cake bag. I love those colors

  11. A cake flavored bag? Awesome! I love the colors of the berry chiffon cake bag.

  12. I like them all, but Plum Tart is my favorite! :)

  13. Pick just one? Super hard! but i’ll go with black forest cake

  14. Wow! They are all gorgeous. I think I’d pick Berry Chiffon.

  15. I need the plum tart cake one so much I can taste it.

  16. The Berry Chiffon looks good enough to eat!

  17. Black Forest…what’s not to love. However, Key Lime would be greatly appreciated. Nice recipe.

  18. I love the plum tart cake!

  19. Black forest and Key Lime are both great, but I think I’d have to go with the one you baked a cake for… Key Lime!!

  20. berry chiffon cake!

  21. The berry chiffon cake is such a cute combination of colors! I’d love that one if I won

  22. Berry Chiffon Cake :)

  23. I love the Black Forest Bag!! So Cute!

  24. Oh definitely the Key Lime Cream. That is my color!!

  25. How did I miss the last one? The key lime cream cake for sure. It is just beautiful. The colors and details make all of the bags so unique. Love!

  26. The Key Lime Bag is my favorite!

  27. I would love to win the Black Forrest Cake. I could use a little good fortune. :)

  28. Love the Berry Chiffon! Gorgeous!

  29. I think my favorite is the Plum Tart Bag but they are all so beautiful. This key lime cake is getting made today because it looks so amazingly delicious!

  30. Key Lime is cute, but I really like the Black Forest!

  31. Berry Chiffon is beautiful!

  32. Berry chiffon- lovely!!!

  33. I like the black torte the best, I think…then again, key lime looks pretty too!

  34. Black Forest!!! Love you, Bakerella :)

  35. Berry Chiffon Cake please!!!!! =D

  36. Berry Chiffon cake bag is beautiful. They are all beautiful.

  37. The Berry Chiffon is gorgeous!!!!!!! I absolutely am in LOVE with these bags!!! So beautiful!

  38. Well, first of all, I want to dive into that baked Key Lime Cream Cake! It looks delicious! I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for some Key limes at the market.

    As for the bag the Plum Tart version is gorgeous, but I’m also partial to the Berry Parfait.

  39. For me its totally the Plum Tart Cake……although all of them are fabulous…..

  40. I like the berry chiffon cake bag!

  41. Just like cake, I like ALL THE FLAVORS!!! :)

  42. Black Forest Cake…no, Key Lime…no, Berry Chiffon Cake…Oh no, I love all of them!!

  43. The key lime cake looks yummy… but the black forest bag is totally me!

  44. I adore black forest…both the cake AND the bag!

  45. Love the Plum Tart!

  46. I love the black forest bag!

  47. I’m so torn between the Berry Chiffon and the Plum Tart…ugh!!! I’ll have to say…….Plum Tart!

  48. OMG… I love them all, it is so hard to choose, but green is my thing and I love key lime anything… Key Lime Cream Cake it is :)

  49. Black Forest please! The cake looks almost too pretty to eat… almost!

  50. Plum Tart Cake for me!! And thanks for the Key Lime Cake recipe – I can’t wait to make it – it looks so moist!!

  51. black forest cake… how beautiful are these?!

  52. That Berry Chiffon Cake is so pretty. It is exactly what I’ve been looking for. What an amazing giveaway thank you!

  53. OOOH! I love the Berry Chiffon. Gray and pink! OH MY!

  54. The Plum Tart Cake, is soooooo precious!

  55. OMG! I LOVE these! I loved the red velvet post from February as well, but these are just too perfect! I am due in October with our first child, a boy, so the key lime or black forest would be perfect for us! I love baking and the color green, so key lime would definitely be my first choice. :D

  56. Tough choice between the Plum Tart and Berry Chiffon, but I’m going to have to go with the Plum Tart. Love those colors. And the Key Lime Cake??? To die for–I’m going to have to bake that this weekend. LOVE key lime:)!

  57. I love the Black Forest Cake.

  58. Oooooh. I love the key lime. It is both sweet and tart – two of my favorite combinations!

  59. I love them all but I really like the berry chiffon cake. I cant wait to try this recipe it looks amazing. I love all your stuff your such an inspiration to me.

  60. I love them all!!! but if I have to chose one I´d love the berry chiffon cake bag, it´s gorgeous!!!!

  61. The Plum Tart Cake and Black Forest Cake bags are definetly a tie for first!!

  62. Berry Chiffon!

  63. Black Forest! I’m prego and not sure if it’s a boy or girl yet, so this could work for either :)

  64. They all look amazing but I would have to choose Black Forest Cake!!

  65. The Black Forest Cake one is my favorite

  66. I love the plum torte cake!

  67. Plum Tart Cake oh yes!!!

  68. I love the berry chiffon! I’m looking for a new diaper bag with baby #2 on the way :)

  69. Berry chiffon cake is beautiful!!!! I really like them all and could use any of them.

  70. Plum Tart or Berry Chiffon :) so adorable!

  71. Berry Chiffon since I am having a baby girl in November and I love Berry Chiffon cake!
    Thank you for the opportunity!

  72. Great recipe, can’t wait to try it!!! And I LOVE the Black Forest bag! Thanks!

  73. I would love to have the Key Lime bag … and plan to make the Key Lime Cake as soon as I have a day free to do so!

  74. KEY LIME!!!!

  75. Black Forest Cake for me please!. or 2nd choice would be Plum Torte. Thanks

  76. Oh the Plum Tart Cake would be my choice. LOVE IT!

  77. I love the Black Forest Cake. What a cute soon to be camera bag!! ;)

  78. I am totally digging the key lime and can’t wait to try out this recipe!

  79. The Black Forest Cake is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for the fun opportunity and sharing :)

  80. Omg! The Berry Chiffon is sooo cute! I love that one! <3

  81. I am totally digging the berry chiffon! Wait…I like the Key Lime Cream better! OMG…the Plum tart is to die for! Now I’m craving the Black Forest!!! I can’t decide!!!

  82. Um…Plum Tart Cake, Pretty Please and Thank You!!!!

  83. I would go with the Black Forest; because…what other kind of cake is there? :)

  84. THESE BAGS ARE SO PRETTY! And the cake looks delicious too :D
    I would have to go with the Black Forrest cake bag. SO PRETTY

  85. The Key Lime Cake recipe sounds like a perfect dessert for summer. I may have to make it the next time a dessert is needed.
    From looking at all the bags, I choose the Key Lime Cake Bag!

  86. Loving the Berry Chiffon Cake bag! Beautiful!

  87. I heart the Berry Chiffon. So pretty. And…I can’t wait to make the key lime cake!

  88. Love them all. If I can only choose one, I’ll take Black Forrest. So classic!

  89. I’d like a slice of Black Forest please!!

  90. These bags are gorgeous! My favourite would be between the Black Forest and Plum Tart. Such yummy names for beautiful bags!

  91. YAY! my mom LOVES key lime, anything! she would love that recipe!! :) ummm and fore the purse, i like the Black Forest Cake! :)

  92. I love them all! They are beautiful, but my absolute favorite would have to be the Berry Chiffon.

  93. Black Forest – Looks beautiful!

  94. Berry Chiffon!!!

  95. Beautiful bags…beautiful cake. Beautiful. My favorite is Berry Chiffon cake.!

  96. It’s berry season so… Berry Chiffon Cake! :)

  97. Black Forest Cake

  98. Black Forest Cake would probably go with a lot of my stuff!
    And it’s my mom’s favorite cake so it’s meant to be!

  99. Definitely the Plum Tart Cake :)

  100. gaaaaaaasp! I am in *love* with the Black Forest Cake bag! I’m a huge sucker for the classic black and white combo. To die for!

  101. Great recipe, can’t wait to try it!! And LOVE the Black Forest Cake bag. So pretty! Thanks!

  102. I love the Berry Chiffon! So cute!

  103. That cake looks absolutely delicious…and so pretty! Love it! As for the bag, so hard to choose! I’m going with Black Forest Cake.

  104. my birthday is in 3 days and i will officially be in my….well, i would love to win one for myself! it would be hard to chose between berry chiffon and black forest. thanks for sponsoring the giveaway!

  105. Who wouldn’t love a little BLACK FOREST!! Thanks, I love your blog

  106. Black Forest Cake – swoon!!!

  107. Berry Chiffon cake.

  108. I love that Plum Tart Bag!

  109. That cake is beautiful!
    And the bags too…berry chiffon.

  110. ooh!! I love the Berry Chiffon bag. So cute :)

  111. Ohhhhh…. The Black Forest one is calling my name!

  112. My favorite is the black forest cake!

  113. I love black forest cake and plum tart cake!!

  114. Plum Tart Cake for me please!

  115. They’re all super cute, but the Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite! Pink goes with everything!

  116. I think I’ll stick with the Key Lime, it looks yummy!

  117. I LOVE the plum tart bag. I am a grandmother, but would use the bag to carry my knitting supplies, which I always have on me, as I visit my husband in a nursing home every day and take my crafts along with me. I can’t wait to make the key lime cake. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipes. Is it possible to pin them on pinterest?

  118. Although I hate Black Forest cake, I would really like the Black Forest cake bag!!!!
    Thanks for this contest. You’re the coolest!

  119. Ohhhhhh they are all so pretty but………

    I would have to say….
    BLACK FOREST CAKE PLEASE!!!!!
    oh and a piece of that yummy cake at the top too please :)

  120. Black Forest, amazing! Love the key lime cake you made, looks pretty and delicious!

  121. Yum! Black Forest Cake would be the one for me!

  122. i would love the Black Forest Cake bag. Thanks for the chance to win.

  123. The Plum Tart Cake looks delicious!!!

  124. Can’t wait to make this cake! The Black Forest Bag would be perfect.

  125. That cake is A-MAZ-ING! :D I love it! So creative. Any of the pink ones look cute!

  126. My favorite is the berry chiffon cake…but they are all really cute!

  127. Such cute bags! My favorite is the Black Forest Cake, closely followed by the Berry Chiffon!

  128. Love these! I think my favorite is the Key Lime!

  129. Ooooh! LOVE those bags, it is hard to just choose one! I think I’d like the Plum Tart Cake! Thanks so much for another giveaway!!

  130. Key Lime Cream Cake!!!!!!!! Love it!!!!!!!!!

  131. I am definitely going to make this cake for a BBQ I have coming up this weekend! It looks amazing!
    As for the bag, they are all absolutely beautiful. My best friend in the whole world is having a baby in Sept and will be raising her little guy all on her own (definitely not what she had planned for herself) I would love to win this and give this great bag to her. She deserves something beautiful like this in this heartbreaking yet incredible chapter of her life.

  132. Plum tart cake!! Love the colors !! =D

  133. Oh My! My Favorite is Key Lime Cream Cake – just like your recipe. Thanks for this wonderful chance to win.

  134. The are all beautiful but the Key Lime Cream Cake bag is divine! I’d love to have a nice bag that is NOT a diaper bag! :-)

  135. What a great cake! I’m a huge key lime fan.

    As for the bag… Black forest is my fave!

  136. It’s like choosing from a dessert tray!! Berry chiffon!

  137. I love the Berry Chiffon Cake

  138. Plum tart cake!! Love the colors! =D

  139. I like most the Black Forest Cake.
    :-)

  140. I think I will make this cake for my birthday! Love the “Key Lime Cream Cake” purse, a fun color and pattern!!

  141. Plum Tart! Or Black Forest. Or Pink Chiffon. Oh so hard. Plum tart is my final answer!

  142. I love them all, I think the plum tart is my favorite though!

  143. They are all amazing! I don’t know which one I like the most, but I think the plum tart is the winner!!

  144. I would love the Berry Chiffon one!

  145. So cute! I’d pick the key lime cream cake!

  146. Good Morning! Oh what a challenge…I love them all but if I have to make the decision I think I would go with the Key Lime..sounds so yummy and refreshing right now!

  147. Love them all! I think my favorite is the Berry Chiffon cake. All so pretty! Thanks for the giveaways!

  148. They’re all incredible, but I think I would have to go with the Plum Tart Cake!

  149. Berry Chiffon! Oh and that key lime cake is defiantly going to be my dessert for the 4th. So excited!

  150. Thank you for the giveaway! I am sorely sorely sorely lacking in the purse department and could use something that could double as a camera bag — this would be perfect! I would choose Black Forest Cake, I think, because it would match everything! :-) Thanks!!!

  151. They’re all so beautiful. I think I’d choose the Key Lime Cream Cake. The recipe looks delish too!

  152. Wow…with these cutsie bags having a food association to go with them…I would find it hard to carry around the Key Lime Cream Cake as I would be always want to have a piece :)
    I love the colors & thank you for sharing. If I had to choose just one though….it would be the Berry Chiffon Cake!!! ( I love the pink & grey…but don’t like berries :) ) Bakerella…you rock for sharing your world with us!!

  153. I love the Black Forest Cake bag! My daughter splurged when she got pregnant and bought a Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag in the red velvet like you showed on an earlier post. I LOVE it and would love to have a great bag of my own!

  154. Plum Tart Cake! LOVE the colors!

  155. Uneven layers – just proof it was homemade with love! The Key Lime Cream Cake bag is just scrumptious! It would be too cool to have someone ask about my bag and say “It’s Key Lime Cream…” yum!

  156. Those are soo cute, I love the Berry Chiffon Cake bag!

  157. Now, that looks like the perfect summer cake. I can’t wait to try it. I would love the Black Forest Tort.

  158. My favorite is the Black Forest Cake!!

  159. I love both the berry & lime versions! :)

  160. So hard to pick! The Black Forest Cake would be wonderful. Crossing my fingers….

  161. Plum Tart looks delicious!

  162. My fave is the Black Forest Cake…gorgeous!!!

  163. It’s a toss up between the key lime and the plum tart! Both so cute!

  164. They are all gorgeous but I think I would have to pick the Black Forrest since it would go with anything! Love the recipe and the give away. Thanks!

  165. Black Forest Cake for sure!

  166. they are all adorable, but if I had to choose, probably the berry chiffon. so cute!

  167. WOW…they all look fabulous but my favorite is the Black Forest.

  168. Black forest cake!!

  169. Lovely purse!!
    I love the Black Forest!

  170. I love the Plum Tart bag!! And thank you for the awesome recipes!!

  171. I really love the Black Forest Cake!

  172. I love all of them but berry chiffon is definitely my favorite!

  173. Black forest!

  174. I love the key lime cake!!

  175. So hard to choose…berry chiffon??

  176. The recipe looks divine, But I like the Berry Chiffon bag the best

  177. I would pick the Key Lime Cream Cake!!

  178. Absolutely beautiful!!!
    Pum tart would be my choice!

  179. I LOOOOOVE the black forest bag!!! They are all absolutely gorgeous though:)

  180. The Berry Chiffon is beautiful and the key lime cream cake look delicious! I might need to try that recipe.

  181. Love all but Black Forest is the one for me. :)

  182. Tough choice between Key Lime and Black Forest, but green is my signature color, so I’d have to go with Key Lime.

  183. Key Lime – cake and bag – both YUMMY!!

  184. I love each and every one. I’d have to say that the Berry Chiffon is my favorite, though.

  185. Plum Tarte Cake looks so beautiful!! So does your cake!!!

  186. I am a sucker for green! My favorite color!

  187. i cant decided between the Black Forest and the Plum Tart, Both are amazing!

  188. Yummy!
    I love the Black Forest Cake satchel!

  189. I love all of them but especially the black forest one. And the pink ones are pretty too. I have too much neutral so maybe I should step out of the comfort zone and get pink. Specifically the berry chiffon!

  190. Black Forest for sure!!! That’s a great bag…and cake! :)

  191. I love the berry chiffon cake. How cute!

  192. Berry Chiffon Cake!

  193. Keylime! But my goodness, any one of them would be amazing

  194. That Key Lime bag is the perfect collection of my favorite shades of ugly green, haha. It’s awesome.

  195. I can’t decide between the Berry Chiffon and Plum Tart. They are both beautiful! Great Giveaway!!!

  196. i LOVE the black forest cake bag. beautiful!

  197. omg I have been wanting one of these bags since your 1st post a while back with the lemon chiffon. I LOVE the key lime cake bag… PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. It is so beautiful!!!

  198. Key Lime for sure…green, green, and always green!! :)

  199. All gorgeous! But I like Berry Chiffon the best!
    Bakerella, you rock! Thanks for doing what you do :-)

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