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Homemade Key Lime Pound Cake

This key lime ( or regular lime!) cake is made with fresh fruit juice, and zest. It’s completely homemade, and perfect for any occasion!

Key Lime Pound Cake with I Heart Recipes

I’ve been getting so many request for a homemade key lime pound cake! I think that the recipe request started pouring in since the beginning of summer 2016. Must admit, that I had to play around with a few recipes, before I could bring you the perfect key lime pound cake. Some of the recipe for this cake we’re kind of “blah”, some we’re good, but I was looking for spectacular. I think one of the best recipes that I tried ( before this one anyway) was southern livings key lime pound cake. Although I loved the recipe, I decided to switch out, and add some ingredients to make the perfect key lime cake recipe.

Key Lime Pound Cake with I Heart Recipes

This cake is made from scratch. This is not a key lime bundt cake with lime jello. Yeah, it sounds good, but we’re going skip out on the gelatin. For now anyway….

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Key Lime Pound Cake
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
2 hrs
Total Time
2 hrs 25 mins
 

This lime cake (key lime or regular) is a tart sweet dessert that is indulgent as well as light. This cake is made from scratch. This is not a key lime bundt cake with lime jello. Give it a try today! 

Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter at room temperature unsalted
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3 cups granulated sugar
  • 7 medium eggs at room temperature
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup half & half
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp key lime or regular lime zest
  • 1/3 cup key lime juice or regular lime juice
Glaze
  • 1 and 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tbsp fresh Key lime juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 F.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

  3. Grease and flour a bundt or tube pan.
  4. In a separate large mixing bowl combine the butter and shortening on medium speed until nice and creamy.
  5. Slow staring adding in the sugar.
  6. Add each egg, one at a time.

  7. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with the half & half.

  8. Reduce the mixers speed from medium to low
  9. Stir in vanilla extract, lime zest, and lime juice.
  10. Pour the batter into prepared pan.
  11. Make sure the batter is even in the pan.
  12. Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes, or until done
  13. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 25 to 30 minutes before removing from the pan
  14. Combine the ingredients for the icing.
  15. When the cake is at room temperature, ice the cake.
  16. Serve & enjoy.
Recipe Notes

if you’d like the cake to have some “color”, add a few drops of green food coloring.

Comments

  4. Hi Rosie! I adore key lime and your recipe showed up just in time for me to make and bring it to a Super Bowl party. It was a hit – even with my 18-month-old niece! She sat right up in her highchair and was stuffing her face with little cubes of it. The cake was moist and delicious and came out of the pan very nicely. I will definitely make this again – 5 stars all the way! Thank you for another great recipe.

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  7. My family loves key lime anything. I a going to try this recipe but make it gluten free with a cup-4-cup gluten free flour. This is so exciting. Thank you for sharing. It all looks so wonderful. Didn’t know where to start til I saw this recipe. I’m just south of Seattle. It’s a nice place to live.

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