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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. Classic!! <3

  2. Keep up the amazing work, O Brilliant One!

  3. Oooohhh! Hard choice! But I think I would go with the Berry Chiffon Cake! Great bags!

  4. I would choose the plum tart cake bag.

  5. Definitely the Berry Chiffon Cake. I love pink!!

  6. My favorite cake of course ~ Black forest

  7. Hmmmm.They all look so delicious… But my favorite is Black Forest Cake… Yummmmy

  8. Will definitely try out the recipe, love the black forest Cake

  9. Love the Black Forest Cake! So pretty!

  10. They are all beautiful, but I think the Black Forest Cake bag would match more of my wardrobe. :)

  11. Berry Chiffon Bag – and a slice of cake, please!

  12. I’m a huge petunia pickle bottom fan and these bags are just lovely! I love the Plum Tart Cake!

  13. Keep up the good work, o brilliant one! Love your posts! xxoo

  14. These are great–thanks for thinking of us! If you should randomly pick me, I love the berry chiffon. Thank you!

  15. I love them all and can’t decide on just one! Ahhh!!

  16. Love, love, love the Black Forest Cake bag

  17. LOVE the black forest cake, gorgeous!!

  18. Plum tart or black forest for me! But they’re all so so pretty!

  19. Plum tart please! :)

  20. I love your Key Lime Cream Cake! Brilliant! Oh, and I love your “Cake Pops” cook book as well! You have revolutionized cake! Keep it up! PEACE! :-)

  21. They are all so pretty but I think I like the berry chiffon. The colors look absolutely amazing.

  22. I’d have to go for the black forest! I love the key lime, but I already have too many green bags that I don’t use enough! Thanks so much.

  23. I would choose the black forest cake bag because it’s rich and decadent!

  24. Omg. They’re amazing! I really don’t know which one I like best, but maybe the Berry Chiffon is my favourite!

    Thank you for the chance!
    Love,
    -M

  25. I love them all, but black forest is my favorite!

  26. I don’t know that I’ve ever had key lime anything, but I’ll have to make this cake just because it’s so pretty!! And the plum tart cake bag is my favorite, though they’re all lovely :)

  27. Black Forest Cake

  28. I LOVE the Black Forest Cake!
    We’re expecting our first in August and this would be a wonderful treat for me :)

  29. My husband loves anything Key Lime…thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I’ll try it out in the near future! I would also love to win the Key Lime Cream Cake diaper bag, my little sister is pregnant with her first and I would give it to her. She would just adore this bag! Thanks so much Bakerella!

  30. I would like the Black Forest Cake!! For sure, though, have to make that Key Lime Cake – looks scrumptious!

  31. I love the berry chiffon!

  32. They are all cute. I like the plum tart one the best!

  33. Hmmmm…..either the berry chiffon cake or the black forest cake. ..but they all look sooooo good!! :)

  34. This cake looks fantastic! I like the key lime and black forest. Can’t decide which Iike more…..

  35. Black Forest is my favorite bag but also have to comment that this Key Lime Cake looks AMAZING and I can’t wait to try it!

  36. I am drawn to the Berry Chiffon, but they are all beautiful! :)

  37. Key Lime Cream cake, of course!

  38. berry chiffon cake please!

  39. Definately the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  40. Berry Chiffon is the one I would chose. And thanks for the cake recipe…..can’t wait to make it!!

  41. I like the Black Forest Cake bag.

  42. Loving the black forrest. Thanks for the chance. Mary

  43. Love the Black Forest purse…. Beautiful. Hope I’m the random winner.

  44. Oh my, these are gorgeous! And the cake looks delicious and super easy to make.
    I love the Key Lime Cream Cake model because I just love green in all it’s versions.
    Super stylish for me that do have to carry diapers for my baby girl.
    Btw, Love your blog Bakerella!

  45. I’m in LOVE with the berry chiffon one!

  46. oohhh I want a piece of that cake!!

    Plum Tart Cake is my favorite bag!!!

  47. I am in love with the Black Forest Cake!!!!

  48. I have been looking for a wonderful key lime cake recipe and yours looks like the BOMB!! Thank you for always sharing and inspiring us! My favorite is the Plum Tart Cake.

  49. Black forest is lovely :-)

  50. oh my to chose only one? seriously i love everyone of them… by doing eeny meenie miney mo…i’d have to go with BLACK FOREST CAKE! yumm and thanks for the opportunity :)

  51. The black forest! I dig it.

  52. I heart the black forest bag!! Can’t wait to make this cake:-)!

  53. I loooove the black forest cake!

  54. Berry Chiffon!!!

  55. Black forest cake please! The key lime cake looks absolutely divine… going to have to try it out this weekend!

  56. Tough decision! But I’d have to go with the berry chiffon cake!

  57. I love anything Key Lime and I’ll have to try this cake! It’s beautiful! I typically favor pink but I would LOVE the Key Lime Cake bag!!!!!

  58. Key Lime! I love the color and the cake looks wonderful!

  59. Beautiful cake and bags!! I heart the Black Forest one:-)
    Thanks!

  60. Key Lime Creme Cake all the way!

  61. Beautiful cake, and beautiful bags! It’s so hard to choose, but I think I love the plum tart cake bag most of all.

  62. Plum Tart is gorgeous!

  63. Plum Tart is beautiful!

  64. Black Forest Cake! Yum!!

  65. Black Forest – too cute!

  66. Oohh…the black forest cake is really pretty.

  67. Oh my, how I love key lime pie so I can only imagine how much I would enjoy this cake. I’m also a sucker for layered cakes so there’s that. Oh, and the bag! I think the key lime is just perfect.

  68. So torn between key lime and black forest! super cute.

  69. oh. my. gosh! I love these! I would love to be able to carry around Key Lime Cream Cake with me all the time! Yay! Plus I love green, & cake. Perfect!

  70. They are all beautiful. My favorite … Berry Chiffon Cake!

  71. They all sound amazingly delicious, but I have to go with my ALL time favorite cake – black forest! Yummmm! These post pregnancy cravings just won’t go away ;)

  72. Black Forest or anything they are all cute!

  73. Key lime cake bag…definitely!

  74. Hard to choose between the cake flavor or the color of the purse but I’m going with Berry Chiffon!

  75. I adore black Forest Cake and would dearly love to win the bag of the same name for a special friend in Illinois ( live in Australia).

  76. They’re all beautiful, but the Plum Tart Cake is my favorite.

  77. Key Lime Cream Cake

  78. it’s a tie between the berry chiffon and black forest one…

  79. Plum Tart Cake please!

  80. Those bags are AMAZING! I like the Plum Tart and the Black Forrest!

  81. I love the Berry Chiffon cake!! It is so perfectly delicate and feminine!!

  82. They’re all beautiful! But if I had to pick one, it would be the Plum Tart Cake!

    PS I can’t wait to try this key lime cake recipe! Perfect for summer!

  83. First of all, your Key Lime Cream Cake looks delicious and I can’t wait to have an opportunity to try and make it. Secondly, the Key Lime Cream Cake bag looks to be delicious as well! I love Petunia Pickle Bottoms’s bags and have to say the Key Lime Cream is my favorite with the Black Forest chasing a close second.
    Thank you!

  84. Black Forest! Love it!

  85. woo…either the berry chiffon or the Plum Tart. I think I’ll have to go with the Plum Tart! :) They’re all beautiful!!!

  86. Black Forest Cake, so beautiful! And this would be very fitting timing-wise since I’m due with #2 in 4 weeks! :)

  87. Yum…the cake recipe is one I have to try soon.
    Funny, I love all the bags except the Key Lime. The green just does’t do it for me. I think the Black Forest is my favorite

  88. Love the Berry Chiffon… and the cake looks amazing! I’ll have to make it for my father-in-law… he LOVES key lime!

  89. The Plum Tart Cake is the bag I’ve had on my wish /dream list ever since I found out I was pregnant with Baby #2. Currently crossing all of my fingers and toes.

  90. Hmmmmm…this is a tough one. Black forest would be practicle, berry chiffon cake beautiful, key lime seasonal….I am going to go with beautiful and choose berry chiffon…hope I am the lucky one….or maybe I should be practicle ;-) hmmmmmm

  91. Wow! I love the black forest cake! What a great giveaway!!! And MUST try the cupcakes! Thanks!!

  92. Black Forest Cake!
    :)

  93. The Plum Tart Cake looks mighty delicious :-)

  94. Love them all but I would have to go with Black Forest cake!

  95. Love the Berry Chiffon Cake! But they all rock! :)

  96. Oooo this is a tuffy! The pink chiffon is adorable, but I think black forest wins out : )

  97. Berry chiffon cake, definitely! love the colors

  98. plum tart! though i’ve never had an actual cake version of that

  99. BLACK FOREST CAKE is my fav.

  100. Key Lime and Black Forest are both awesome and I just can’t decide…:) I want all of them!

  101. wooooo! Plum tart is so lovely. Your cake looks amazing as well!

  102. Pick me!!! I like the berry chiffon bag but any of them will do! They’re all so cute! Thx for your generosity. I love your blog.

  103. I’m a purple girls, so I’d love to have Plum Tart!

  104. The Black Forest Cake looks divine

  105. With a baby due in November I’m in search of a cute diaper bag. Even thought i want to eat the key lime cake right now – I’d like to wear the black forest cake bag!

  106. Your cake looks delicious. As do those bags… I think I like the Black Forest best.

  107. Black Forest Cake <3!

  108. Plum Tart Cake ALL THE WAY!!!
    Absolutely luv it!

  109. I like the key lime bag! They are all nice, though!

  110. I love the plum tart cake!

  111. The Plum Tart Cake for me. Your cake is making me drool!

  112. I meant black forest was trying to decide.

  113. berry chiffon cake!

  114. Yhe berry chiffon is beautiful!

  115. Oh how pretty. The Black Forest for the win!

  116. Plum Tart, mmm!

  117. I would love to win the berry chiffon bag it is so pretty!

  118. I love the black chiffon. It looks awesome.

  119. Very hard choice between Berry Chiffon or Black Forest… Ultimately I think Id go with the Black Forest bag.

  120. I love the key lime.

  121. Oooh, such a hard decision. But I think the Black Forest Cake!!

  122. Love the Black Forest Cake

  123. Probably the plum tart cake. I have a passion for baking and i have been doing so since the day i could sit up.

  124. They are all beautiful, but the Berry Chiffon Cake was love at first sight!

  125. Mmmm…the Berry Chiffon Cake looks yummy!

  126. Black Forest Cake is my favorite.

  127. Key lime creame cake for sure! Your cake looks amazing by the way!

  128. First of all thank you for this recipe!! I am going to give it a try soon! second, I would love the key lime cream bag. Loving the colors. Thank you!

  129. Love them all, but I think Black Forest Cake would go best with my wardrobe. Also, will be trying this wonderful looking cake very soon!

  130. Berry Chiffon Cake is my fave :)

  131. Oh I like the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  132. Oooo, Berry Chiffon for sure!!

  133. Black Forest Cake! Love em all!!

  134. Black Forest!

  135. oh my, key lime cake looks like a summer breeze…but for a purse gimme black forest tort….could so use it on vacation this summer to WDW

  136. Berry Chiffon Cake

  137. Black Forest Cake! Love em all!!

  138. Berry Chiffon looks yum! :)

  139. Definately the Black Forest Cake!

  140. That looks amazing! For the bags, I really like the berry chiffon bag. So much fun!

  141. They are so beautiful. I’d say Key Lime cake bag, beautiful color!

  142. I think the Plum Tart bag is adorable!

  143. Berry Chiffon Cake is sooo pretty! I ? it.

  144. Hi bakerella. I always love your postings, especially when it comes to cake pops and freebies! I would love the black forest cake bag please, it is so adorable.

  145. I can’t WAIT to try this Key Lime Cake–that flavor is my new favor for desserts! I think I would have to pick the Berry Tart bag however, that pink is too cute to pass up!

  146. I have been looking for over a year for the perfect green purse – the Key Lime bag would be perfect (not that I would turn my back on any of the other flavors :-) ). The Key Lime Cake recipe sounds wonderful – I can’t wait to try it.

  147. oh man that cake looks yummy. and I would totally choose the key lime creme cake bag, because I’m just a key lime kind of gal. :)

  148. Ooh…they are all yummy, but like the black forest the best.

  149. Black Forest Cake, for sure!

  150. Berry Chiffon cake! In my mouth and on my arm please! :)

  151. They are all beautiful but my favorite is the Black Forest.

  152. I love the Plum Tart color. Thanks for doing these awesome giveaways!

  153. Berry Chiffon Cake…love it!!!

  154. The Berry Chiffon Cake is just amazing! :)))

  155. Berry chiffon cake – I love the gray and pink together.

  156. I love the black bottom cake bag! And I’m having a baby any day now sooo this bag would be fabulous :)
    Totally need to make this key lime cake sounds so yummy!

  157. Either Berry Chiffon or the Key Lime Cream but i like the Black Forest one too they all are so beautiful would love any one of them!! not to mention the cake looks amazing!

  158. Black Forest Cake!!

  159. Oh, oh, oh… the Key Lime Creme Cake! No, wait… the Berry Chiffon Cake. No, no… definitely the Plum Tart Cake. That is it. Definitely. Except, maybe the Key Lime. Ok, yeah, all of them! :) I love them all! But if I HAVE to choose one, green is my favorite color, so as much as it hurts me, I would DEFINITELY choose the Key Lime. (But let the others know that I still love them too, k?)

  160. LOVE the black forest cake!!!

  161. Black Forest Cake, please! Chocolate, cherries, beautiful bag!

  162. plum tart! They’re all so nice though.

  163. You’ve made it too tempting! I like them all but if I had to pick just one, I think I would go for Black Forest…. ;-)

  164. The black forest cake bag would go perfect with the baby I’m having in November!

  165. Ah, Key Lime Cream Cake is the best colour. Slightly biased as I’m eating Key Lime Pie as I type… :) Must try the Key Lime Cream Cake!

  166. It is so hard to pick a favorite! I love all the color combos! Maybe Berry Chiffon is my favorite….. In five minutes it may be another one though!!!

  167. Black forest cake looks so nice.

  168. Plum tart cake!

  169. Black forest cake looks so pretty.

  170. They are all gorgeous! But I think I like the Berry Chiffon Cake–so pretty!

  171. These are beautiful! I would say either the Black Forest Cake or the Berry Chiffon! Hard to pick just one!

  172. Berry Chiffon! And that cake looks amazing!

  173. I would love the Berry Chiffon Cake!

  174. Berry Chiffon Cake please!

  175. mmm the Berry Chiffon Cake would be nice yummy !!! I’d like to win one ; )

  176. Great looking cake and bags- I’d love to win the black forest cake bag and give it to a friend who is expecting-

  177. Black Forest cake would be my favorite flavour!

  178. Yummy!!! Plum tart please! Thanks for the chance to win!

  179. Ohhh my these bags are adorable…so hard to choose just one; but I have to say the Berry Chiffon Cake bag “takes the cake” for me!

  180. Probably the Berry Chiffon cake or maybe the Black Forest cake! :)

  181. I’ll take the cake, both of them. Your key lime cake and the purse in key lime.

  182. Definitely Plum BerryTart. LOVE the colors!

  183. I love them!!
    Plum tart cake please ;)

  184. LOVE the Black Forest Cake!!!!

  185. Blake Forest Cake. Both yummy in cake and handbags!

  186. Black Forest its my favorite

  187. Ohh I want them all but the Berry Chiffon Cake is my favorite.

  188. If I were to win this bag, I would pick Key Lime, just to step out of my box a little. I think everything I own is black.

  189. A lovely bag for free? It’s Black Forest for me!

  190. Love plum tart cake! Such a beautiful color!

  191. As much as I love to eat Key Lime Cake, I’m digging the Plum Tart Cake bag the best!

  192. I’ll take a piece of black forest! Thanks for the giveaway :)

  193. I love the Berry Chiffon bag, and if I don’t win I will have to make that delicious looking Lime cake and eat the whole thing.

  194. Oh, definitely Black Forest!

  195. I love them all, but especially the plum tart cake. Thanks for sponsoring this!

  196. Gorgeous! I love, love, love the Key Lime!

  197. I love all of them! They all have such unique colours and patterns!

  198. Oh my goodness, what incredible bags!!! I LOVE them all! I guess the berry chiffon is my favorite but Black Forest is a very close second!

  199. Plum tart – thought they’re all great :)

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