Key Lime Cake Tutorial by Little Alfies
Lead cake designer of Little Alfies, Asaad Little teaches Leah how to make a little alfies Key Lime cake. Visit Little Alfies website at or ... If you're around the Atlanta are call (678)900-7214 for 1 on 1 classes or orders! Thank you for watching
Key Lime Cake
Growing up, I used to love my aunt's Key Lime Cake & Key Lime Pie. She lived in Jacksonville, FL and often had access to fresh key limes. She always had a Key Lime Cake or a Key Lime Pie waiting for me whenever we visited from Savannah, GA. mothertosoncooking.com
Key Lime cake- courtesy of Michael Wysong- adapted: my aunt
Comments: When I was about 8-10 years old, we lived in Valdosta, Ga. and I had an Aunt on my mother's side that lived in Jacksonville, Florida. Our families would visit each other about four times a year. Aunt Janice was a great cook like my mother. She was always making something special, usually some type of dessert for us young military brats, which included me, my two brothers, and her 4 children, plus any of our friends that happened to be over at that moment. In those days our parents wanted our friends playing with us at our homes, now I know why, they wanted to know the friends that we were keeping.
Like my mother, she always used the fresh ingredients of the region or what was on sale at the time. No cake or pie mixes for her, she made everything from scratch. Like Mother she made banana cream pies, coconut cream pies, chocolate cake, pecan pies, apple and peach turnovers, many types of cobbler desserts, and there was always something delicious for dessert. She was a special lady. On Sunday, she would have us kids on the ice cream maker or always having us involved in some type of way with the daily chores. One of my favorite desserts that she made was this Key Lime Cake recipe. She would always get us kids involved in the process, because we knew that we would get to eat the left over cake frosting that she would make. I think she always made more than what she needed, so she could treat us kids- what a treat. My Mother and Aunts were homemakers taking care of the family and spent time teaching us kids the values of Life.
The Key Lime Cake is not difficult to make, but does take some time. The hardest part of the recipe is squeezing the key limes to get the lime juice. It is a special dessert; you must give it a try.
Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
2 cups- Flour (use Cake Flour) 3 oz- lime flavored gelatin (follow instructions)
1 tsp- Baking Powder 1 ½ cup- sugar
1 tsp- Baking Soda Cake pan- butter and flour (so no cake sticking)
Wet Ingredients:
1 ½ cup- Vegetable Oil ½ tsp- Vanilla extract
½ - ¾ cup- orange juice 6 large eggs- slightly beaten
2 Tbsp- lemon juice (fresh squeezed) ¼ cup- Key Limes Juice (squeezed)
1- Lemon (completely zested)
Cake Glaze:
½ cup- Key Lime Juice (about 25) ½ cup- confectionary white sugar
Cake Icing:
1 ½ Stick of Butter- room temp. 8 oz- Cream Cheese- room temp.
½ bos (about lb) confectionary sugar 1 lemon (completely zested)
Directions:
Prep-heat: oven to 350 degrees- Two cake pans- greased and floured
In large Bowl: mix the gelatin, sugar, the baking powder and Soda-stirring well. Then add the oil, orange juice, lemon juice and the zest, vanilla, and the slightly beaten eggs. In another large bowl have the flour (I like cake flour), slowly add contents of other bowl and combine well, stirring to get a smooth mixture. Pour batter mix into the two cake pans and bake about 30 to 40 minutes. Test for doneness. Cool the two cake on cake racks, until slightly warm. Add glaze below
The Glaze: Mix the key lime juice with confectionary white sugar, soaks the cakes with fork holes.
The Icing: Cream the butter and cream cheese. Beat in the confectionary sugar until smooth. On a pie plate, add one cake layer-add icing, place other cake layer add icing, sprinkle top with lemon zest.
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