Homemade Key Lime Desserts
No one in my family will eat lime flavored desserts.
Homemade Key Lime DessertsEasy Key Lime Pie Cake Recipe With Buttercream FrostingHow to Make Key Lime Pie Cake:Get the Recipe
Or lemon. BUT they will eat lemon AND lime candy. ANNNND they will eat raw limes and lemons. But if there is the faintest hint or citrus in a baked good they will take a small bite and say, “yeah, no”. Not annoying at all. Me, on the other hand would eat lemon/lime desserts all the live-long day. From here until eternity. Key Lime pie forevahhhh. So when I decided that I wanted to make this cake, I was under no false illusions that anyone in my house would eat it. Mwhahahahaa…. A whole cake for me! Not my fault they don’t like Key Lime anything. But unfortunately, I have an annoying friend who can smell Key Lime from across the development and just come knocking on my door if they think I might be using the green citrus. Ok, that’s not what happened. I texted her. And then she came. Because we all know, I may talk a big game, but a whole cake I cannot eat. Plus, I am trying to make all my friends fat, so I look skinny.
Easy Key Lime Pie Cake Recipe With Buttercream Frosting
The idea for this cake was to make it a graham cracker cake, to mimic the graham cracker crust on a Key Lime Pie. Well..after 2 attempts at making a cake using Graham Crackers and having them fail fail fail, I turned to Better Homes and Gardens for the base cake recipe.
How to Make Key Lime Pie Cake:
Crush up some graham crackers first. You could use your food processor too. You want them to be crushed VERY finely. I DO have a fantastic graham cake recipe using graham flour that I developed last year. I will share that with you guys another day. Whisk the crumbs with your other ingredients. Once you have the batter made, divide it into 2, 8″ cake pans… And bake it. Let it cool in the pan for a few minutes before getting it out. Be VERY careful with this cake. It’s super delicate. (Also make sure you grease your pan heavily AND use parchment rounds on the bottom of the cake pans to help with the release. When the cake is cooling whip up your frosting. It’s Key Lime Buttercream and it’s fantastic! Add some zest and key lime juice. I couldn’t find Key Limes at my supermarket, so I used the bottled juice and the zest is from a regular lime. Sorry. Spread the frosting on the bottom layer… And then top it with the other layer and frost more! You could cover the cake with the frosting too, I just loaded the filling HEAVILY with frosting and ran out. Also I kind of like the look of it all rustic… The cake is so tender and the graham cracker flavors really come through! Love this! Click HERE for more of my KEY LIME treats!
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