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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. Have to say they are all great color ways… but being the neutral gal I am I’d have to choose Black Forrest Cake. Love the bags thanks for introducing us to them.

  2. All are beautiful and I would be thrilled with any, but Berry Chiffon is my favorite!

  3. Key Lime after MUCH deliberation! They are all gorgeous!!!

  4. I’m in search of the perfect diaper bag for my little on coming in October and these are absolutely gorgeous. I LOVE the key lime pie one…but I’m a sucker for anything green. Including that cake. I’m going to make that soon.

  5. I love the key lime cream cake. And, today just happens to be my birthday…. (:

  6. Ooh! I like the plum tart cake one!! It’s so prettay!!

  7. Plum Tart looks nice!!

  8. Difficult toss-up between black forest cake (basic, goes with everything) and key lime cream cake.

  9. Oh this is the perfect cake for a summer tea party!

    Berry chiffon! May I please have that one? :-) So pretty!

  10. Key lime- yum! I mean cute!

  11. plum tart cake for me! :) beautiful…

  12. Plum Tart Cake (:

  13. I like the black forest cake – too cute!

  14. They are all delightful! I would love a slice of each! Mmmmmmmm……

  15. ooooh… it’s hard to pick between the key lime and plum tart, but i think i’d go with the plum tart. so pretty.

  16. The Black Forest Cake is to die for!

  17. LOVE LOVE LOVE the Berry Chiffon!!!

  18. I love that you coordinate your baking and giveaways! I think I would choose Black Forest.

  19. I want the key lime bag. Green is my favorite color :)

  20. i love both the berry chiffon and the plum tart

  21. Key lime.

  22. The berry chiffon cake looks pretty fantastic!

  23. They are all cute, but my favorite is the Berry Chiffon Cake.

  24. Such a tough decision…but Berry Chiffon is my choice!

  25. Loooooove the Black Forest Cake!!!!!

  26. Such a hard decision, lol. I’d have to say the black forest cake, it make’s my mouth water the most.

  27. I don’t need a diaper bag, so don’t enter me, but I can’t wait to try that cake recipe! I don’t care for key lime pie, but I think I’d love it as cake!

  28. I would love the Black Forest bag! Gorgeous!

  29. I would love the Black Forest Cake! Cute bags :)

  30. Key lime!

  31. Key Lime Cream Cake!!!

  32. I love the Key Lime Cream Cake. Green works with all seasons.

  33. love green so…
    Key Lime Cream Cake

  34. Plum tart cake!

  35. Love the Berry Chiffon! These look like my Grandma’s couch!

  36. Either the Berry Chiffon or the Plum Tart! I love pink! They are all adorable though!

  37. ohh, how pretty! I’d probably have to say Plum Tart!

  38. My favorite flavor of the group is key Lime Pie! Adorable!

  39. Thank goodness for attractive diaper bags! The key lime one is amazing!

  40. I’d HAVE to choose the Berry Chiffon Cake…..but I love them all! Gorgeous!

  41. Berry Chiffon Cake! Adorable! :)

  42. That Key Lime Cake Bag looks so yummy! Nothing like a bold pop of color to stand out!

  43. I would have to say Black Forest Cake!

  44. My mom likes the Berry Chiffon.

    I’m a small-bag girl — I like carrying mine with a short strap over my forearm. I bought a Seatbelt bag on eBay years ago [at more than 1/4 retail price!] and I’m still using it.
    Pic I took after I got it in the mail: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y236/Panya/9cd1ef84.jpg

  45. Those bags are GORGEOUS! (And the cake looks super-tasty, too!)

    I’d love the Black Forest Cake flavour!

  46. I like them all but I think the key lime cream cake would be fabulous to have

  47. I would love the Key Lime Cake!! What a gorgeous bag!

  48. I love them all, but I’d have to go with the Berry Chiffon! :)

  49. the black forest~im already getting a craving

  50. It’s so hard to choose! But I think I like the Plum Tart Cake best! :)

  51. Black Forest Cake, please!

  52. Berry Chiffon Cake! They are all so beautiful.

  53. So pretty! I think the Plum Tart Cake is my favorite!

    I may have to make a key lime cake for dinner with my parents this weekend. Key lime is my mom’s favorite!

  54. They are all really pretty, but I think I like the key like cake the best- green is my favorite color!

  55. Yummy! My fav is the Key Lime Cream Cake!

  56. In order of preference (cause it’s very hard to pick just one): Black Forest, Berry Chiffon, Key Lime then Plum Tart! THANKS!!!

  57. stuck between berry chiffon and black forest, but if I had to choose, I’d say black forest.

  58. berry chiffon looks fabulous and sounds delicious!

  59. Love! Plum tart :)

  60. I absolutely adore the Key Lime Cream Cake (especially since I live in Florida … the perfect color!)

  61. I am usually a black and white purse girl but I am in love with The Berry Chiffon Cake.

  62. I would enjoy the plum

  63. black forest cake!

  64. black forest cake for me, please!!!

  65. berry chiffon! its so pretty..

  66. I love the black forest cake! So chic :)

  67. black forest cake!

  68. My favorite is Berry Chiffon! The bags look great, and the cake looks delicious!

  69. They all look so delicious! I would love a slice of each! Mmmmmmm……..

  70. I love classic black and white so the Black Forest is definitely for me :)
    -Marisa G.

  71. Definitely black forest cake!

  72. Key Lime Cream Cake! And I want to make that cake, too. It looks fabulous.

  73. they are all pretty! but i’ll have to go with berry chiffon. i love the grey!

  74. Key lime pie!!!!!!

  75. Initially I’d say Black Forest but looking at them longer I’d splurge and say final answer is Plum Tart. LOVE those colors!

  76. That cake looks amazing and i love the berry chiffon bag!

  77. Black Forest Cake for me!

  78. Black Forest Cake, because I’m relentlessly practical.

  79. Black Forest Cake…I want it! (And the bag too!)

  80. I love them all but my two faves are Berry Chiffon & Black Forest, yummy!

  81. I think they are all fantastic, but if I must choose it would be the black forest cake!

  82. Cute! I want one of each.

  83. I’m not picky, I love all flavors of CAKE!!!!!

  84. I really like the Black Forest Cake. It’s beautiful :)

  85. I love the Black Forest bag!

  86. Love the plum tart colour!

  87. Berry Chiffon Cake! The colors are so pretty!

  88. I absolutely love the Berry Chiffon flavor is my favorite.

    I still haven’t figured out how to bake a cake without it splitting apart. What in the world am i do wrong?

  89. Berry Chiffon Cake, how adorable!

  90. Black Forest Cake- just the name makes me hungry!

  91. Hello gorgeous! They’re all amazing, but I love the Plum Tart Cake!

  92. I heart the berry chiffon cake! Though it’s so hard to choose!

  93. I love the Key Lime bag! And I am so making this cake.

  94. Gorgeous!!! I especially love the Plum Tart Cake.

  95. They all look good but…I’d pick the Berry Chiffon.

  96. all flavors look yummy! ;-) But, since I love pink, I would pick berry chiffon.

  97. Hmm…. I don’t like black forest cake to eat, but I am loving the black forest cake bag!

  98. Beautiful black forest for me!

  99. Such a cute design!! My favorite is the key lime pie.

  100. Love the black forest, but I think I like the Key Lime one best!

  101. I would LOVE to win the Black Forest Cake!

  102. Love the Key Lime!!

  103. I love the black forest cake!

  104. Not an easy choice but Plum Tart is my favorite :)

  105. Plum Tart is definitely my favorite bag!

  106. I love them all but would have to pick Black Forest so I could get the most use out of it. Those bags are gorgeous!

  107. They’re all pretty, but I’d probably choose the Berry Chiffon

  108. I love the black forest cake!! That cake looks amazing!!

  109. They are all amazing but would love to show off the Berry Chiffon Cake! Yummy!

  110. I love the Key lime cream cake :) :)

  111. Black Forest Cake!!

  112. Key Lime Cream Cake for sure! Love, love, love it! A must TRY recipe and a must HAVE bag!

  113. Gorgeous bags! Black Forest Cake is my fav!

  114. Berry chiffon. Looks like it could be a great travel bag!

  115. Definitely the key lime pie… looks almost as delicious as your cake there! :)

  116. All the bags are really cute! But I would chose the Berry Chiffon Cake!!

  117. I would like to win the plum tart cake! :-)

  118. My favorite is the Plum Tart Cake–how cute! Thanks for the chance to win and the mouth watering recipe!

  119. I like most of the bags but if I have to choose Plum Tart Cake please!

  120. Plum Tart Cake looks yummy!! :)

  121. I forgot to put that I would Love the Berry Chifon, or the Black Forest Cake, or the Plum Tart…etc.

  122. Though it is not my normal color choice, I like key lime. Weird.

  123. Definitely Key Lime, but Plum Tart is a close second. Oh, they look so soft and fuzzy. I’m guessing I would end up obsessively petting my own bag if I owned one!

  124. Definitely Key Lime, but Plum Tart is a close second. Oh, they look so soft and fuzzy. I’m guessing I would end up obsessively petting my own purse if I owned one!

  125. OH MY GOSH! The cake looks absolutely amazing, can’t wait to try it out…and OH YEAH do I want one of those purses! Fingers crossed that I’m the randomly selected person!

    Love you Bakerella!

  126. I’d love any one of them, but I’d have to go with the Berry Chiffon!

  127. Berry Chifon! Gorgeous! I just may need to bake a cake tonight :)

  128. They are all super cute, but if forced to choose, I think the Black Forest Cake would win out. 2nd place is the Plum Tart cake.

  129. Oh no, I think it’s cruel and unusual punishment to make a purse/wallet junkie choose just ONE! But one is better than none…I’ll choose Plum Tart Cake!

  130. Love your website….I would love to have the Black Forset Cake.

  131. I love Red Velvet Cake, but the Key Lime looks great. Love the Berry Chiffon Bag almost as much as the the Plum Tart Bag.

  132. Would love to win the Black Forest Cake!

  133. The black forest cake!!

  134. Black Forest please!

  135. The Berry Chiffon – Yummy!

  136. Yummy!…. I love the black forest cake and the plum tart cake…. Beautiful!

  137. How Beautiful! I’d love to have a Black Forest Cake one! Thank you for hosting the contest!

  138. Oh my, the Key Lime Cream Cake bag is my favourite.

  139. Your giveaways are always so fun! I’m going to have to say the Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite. I love the colors on all of these!

  140. New baby is here and one of these bags would look just beautiful accompanying her!

  141. Berry Chiffon Cake is Beautiful!! My daughter would love your Key Lime Cake..it’s scrumptiously beautiful!

  142. So hard to choose, they are all yummy…the berry chiffon is so sweet, but the black forest is quite elegant.

    As for the key lime cream cake, never mind the purse I plan to make the real thing this week, it looks to be divine!

  143. I love the Berry Chiffon bag.Those are so cute, and the key lime cake recipe is making me quite hungry.

  144. The Berry chiffon one looks amazing, though I’d be happy with any of them!

  145. I LOVE the Black Forest Cake! It is beautiful.

  146. I love the Berry Chiffon! So cute!!

  147. I’m a huge fan of black and white, so I’d say Black Forest Cake for sure!

  148. Key lime Cake for sure (but really let’s be honest, I would love any of them!)

  149. Key Lime is my HAPPY COLOR!!! :) Please random machine….choose me:)

  150. can i just have one of each? Okay…..ummmmmm……plum tart…no, ummmm……..key lime…….oh crap. plum tart. there I did it.

  151. Black forest baby!

  152. They all look yummy! I’d have to pick Black Forest,so versatile.
    Sandra m

  153. All of them look beautiful…and the names are delicious! But I think the Berry Chiffon is my fave. =)

  154. They’re all beautiful! I would win the Plum Tart Cake! =)

  155. Ooh, they’re all so pretty! If I had to choose, I would go with Black Forest Cake. Also, I am 8 months pregnant and now I must have your key lime cream cake – it looks so good!

  156. Berry Chiffon Cake :)

  157. my absolute favorite is a Tomato Soup Cake with cream cheese frosting! To go along with that lucious Key Lime Cream Cake Bag! You are so “sweet” to do this for all of us!

  158. Plum Tart! Plum Tart! Plum Tart! Thanks for the chance to make it MINE!

  159. Lovin’ the plum tart.

  160. I like the black forest cake!!

  161. Yum. Plum Tart Cake.

  162. Oh wow that bag is fabulous. Black Forest, please.

  163. The Berry Chiffon bag is sublime!

  164. Black forest it´s whay i like more

  165. I love them all but the berry chiffon is the one I’d pick…

  166. oohh! I would love the black forest cake!

  167. Love it! Black Forest Cake please with a Cherry on top….

  168. I love the Black Forest Cake and the Key Lime Cake!

  169. I love the Plum Tart! Thanks!

  170. I would love the berry chiffon!! It looks lucious! Thank you for the key lime cake recipe

  171. So cute! I would choose Plum Tart!!

  172. Oh, the plumb tart is so beautiful. I pick his one.
    I enjoy your site so much. Thank you.

  173. That key lime bag is fantastic, and that cake looks AMAZING!

  174. I love the Berry Chiffon!

  175. The black forest please… Oh so adorable

  176. I think the Black Forest Cake bag looks yummy!

  177. So hard to pick but I think Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite.

  178. plum tart or key lime…i am torn!! i LOVE petunita pickle bottom!

  179. I love the plum tart bag. And this dessert looks divine!! I need to get out my baking supplies!

  180. OMG! Berry Chiffon Cake is beautiful! My 40th birthday is in 2 weeks! What a great birthday gift this would be! Thank you Angie!!

  181. Black Forest Cake

  182. The Black Forest cake is so awesome! What a beautiful bag.

  183. I want them all but I love the black forest cake:)

  184. Key lime is a fav in our house, so I will be making that yummy cake this week!
    I would adore a key lime or berry chiffon bag, hmmm, which to choose?!

  185. Key Lime is my favorite! (in cake form as well as bag form!)

  186. That Key Lime Cream Cake looks delish!
    My eyes are drawing to the Black Forest Cake.

    Thanks for all the great ideas Bakerella!

  187. I am in love with plum tart and berry chiffon!!! Super Cute!!!!!!!!

  188. I love the berry chiffon cake one and I love tor blog :)

  189. Black Forest for me!

  190. WOW!! That cake…and the bags…everything about this post is amazing. It’s so difficult to choose a bag, but I have to say that the plum tart is calling to me :}

  191. I adore the berry chiffon. Delicious!

  192. Actually I think I really like the plum tart.

  193. Berry Chiffon Cake

  194. My wife would love the Plum Tart Cake bag.

  195. Plum Tart makes me smile! :)

  196. Key Lime, Please!

  197. They are all awesome, but I would go with the black forest cake :)

  198. So cute. I love the plum tart bag!!!!!!!!!

  199. My favorite is the Berry Chiffon!

  200. I covet these bags! Black forest cake is exquisite!

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