Description
This easy key lime cake from scratch is fluffy, moist, and full of fresh key lime flavor! This sheet-pan cake is topped with a zesty lime citrus glaze and cream cheese lime frosting. Each bite will make your lips puckering for more.
Try this zesty summer dessert this season!
Ingredients
For cake:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
4 oz cream cheese
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp freshly grated key lime zest
3 tbsp key lime juice
For glaze:
3 tbsp key lime juice
3 tbsp sugar
For Icing:
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temp
4 oz cream cheese, at room temp
3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tbsp fresh key lime juice
Lime slices
Instructions
For the cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and grease or spray with non-stick spray a 13×9 cake tin.
- In a large mixing bowl add butter and cream cheese and beat for 2-3 minutes on high. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add in the sugar and vanilla extract. Beat for an additional 4-5 minutes or until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
- Add in eggs, one at a time on medium speed, mixing after each addition.
- Turn the mixer to low and slowly add in the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda until it’s just incorporated.
- Turn off the mixer, add in the key lime zest and key lime juice until just combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and the bottom of the bowl.
- Add cake batter to the greased cake tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake.
- Cool cake for 10 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to continue cooling for at least another 30-45 minutes.
For the glaze:
- In a small saucepan combine lime juice and sugar over medium heat. Heat mixture until all the sugar has been dissolved.
- Trim the edges of the cake and poke evenly with a fork. Brush the cooled glaze all over the cake top.
For the frosting:
- In a large mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the butter and the cream cheese. Beat on high until fluffy and cream (3-4 minutes).
- Slowly add in in the powdered sugar on low in three increments, scraping down the sides after each increment.
- Add in the vanilla extract, and key lime juice until combined.
- Frost the top of the cake with a thick, even layer of frosting and garnish with lime wheels.
Notes
Key Limes: Key limes get significantly less juice squeezed out of them than regular limes, so you’ll need quite a bit. If you can’t find key limes you can certainly use regular freshly squeezed lime juice.
Keywords: bake, key lime, dessert