Key Lime Cake Recipe
This beautiful key lime cake recipe is moist, crumbly, and made with easy-to-find ingredients. But the best part is, this pretty cake is topped with a sweet limy cream that tastes JUST like key lime pie! It's seriously so good!
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time35 minutes mins
Total Time50 minutes mins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine: Brazilian, Latin American
Keyword: baking, brunch, cake, citrus, limes
Servings: 10 servings
Author: Aline Shaw
For the Cake:
- 3 eggs
- 2.5 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup milk room temperature
- 4 oz unsalted butter, room temperature one stick
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 Tbsp key lime zest* about 2 limes
- 2 Tbsp key lime juice* about 2 limes
- 1 tsp salt
For the Frosting:
- 1x 14oz can sweet condensed milk
- 1-2 Tbsp key lime zest* about 4 limes
- 1/2 cup key lime juice* about 4 limes
For the Cake:
Preheat oven to 350F.
Spray, or grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
Add the all purpose flour, the baking powder and the salt to a large bowl, and whisk to combine – set aside.
Mix the butter and the sugar in a large bowl, using a hand mixer until it looks sandy. Then add in the eggs, one at a time, mixing until combined between each addition (a few minutes on medium speed).
Alternate adding flour mixture and the milk, beginning and ending with flour (3 additions of flour and 2 of milk), fully incorporating after each addition.
With a spatula, scrape the sides of the bowl and give it a stir. Then, add in the key lime juice and zest and stir to combine.
Pour the batter into the greased bundt pan, and bake until a cake tester/toothpick inserted to the middle comes out lightly crumbly to clean (about 35-40 mins)
Move the cake pan to a cooling rack and let it cool for about 5-10 mins, then remove the cake from the pan and let it cool on the rack
For the Frosting:
Add in the condensed milk and the key lime juice to a medium bowl.
Using a hand mixer, or a hand whisk**, whisk the mixture until creamy and frothy - about 3 minutes on high. Sprinkle in a little bit of the zest and gently stir it with a spatula.
Pour the lime cream over the cake, and sprinkle with the remaining key lime zest.
*if you can't find key limes, regular limes will work fine!
**you can also use a standing mixer with a whisk attachment, or even a blender.