Southern Living Key Lime Pound Cake From Scratch Simply Delizious Baking Recipes

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) tube pan.
• Bake at 325°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
• Prepare Key Lime Glaze: Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately.
• Brush Key Lime Glaze over top and sides of cake immediately after preparing. Cool completely (about 1 hour).

KEY LIME CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease and flour one 9-by-12-by-2-inch cake pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, mix the gelatin, granulated sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir to mix well. Add the oil, orange juice, lemon juice, vanilla, and eggs. Mix until well combined. Pour the batter evenly in the pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Test for doneness by lightly touching the tops or inserting a toothpick. Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes then turn out onto a cooling rack.
• For the glaze: While the cake is still hot, mix the lime juice and confectioners' sugar together well. Pierce the cake with a fork to allow the glaze to soak in better and pour it over the cake on the cooling rack. Allow cake to cool completely as you prepare the icing.
• For the icing: Cream the butter and cream cheese. Beat in the confectioners' sugar until mixture is smooth and easy to spread. Spread the icing on the top and sides of the cake.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lime zest, vanilla and lime juice. Add flour alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Transfer to prepared pan. , Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, lime zest and lime juice until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Spread over cake. If desired, garnish with lime slices and additional zest.

KEY LIME CAKE III

Steps:

• Combine cake mix, gelatin mix, oil, eggs and orange juice. Pour into three 8 inch cake pans. Bake according to instructions on box. Allow to cool, then frost.
• To make the frosting: In a large bowl, beat the butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add lime juice and confectioners sugar. Mix well.

SOUTHERN LIVING'S CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Use an electric mixer to mix both butter and cream cheese until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar and beat for 5 minutes, then add eggs one at a time, allowing each to incorporate before adding more. Stir in vanilla.
• Sift flour and salt and add gradually to the mixer, beating until well blended.
• Pour batter into a well greased and floured bundt pan or tube cake pan.
• Place 2 cups water in an ovenproof container on the rack in the oven next to the cake.
• Bake cake at 300 for an hour and 45 minutes, or until a toothpick can be removed cleanly.
• Place pan on a wire rack and cool for 15 minutes, then remove the cake from the pan and complete cooling on the wire rack.

SCRATCH MADE KEY LIME POUND CAKE RECIPE WITH KEY LIME GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch (12 cup) tube or bundt pan.
• Cream butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty mixer.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time. Beat just until blended after each addition.
• Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk. Begin and end with flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed until just blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour 25 to 30 minutes.
• Test doneness by inserting a long wooden pick or skewer into the center of cake. The cake is done when the skewer comes out clean or with dry crumbs.
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 25 to 30 minutes before inverting onto a serving tray to cool completely.
• While cake is cooling on tray, prepare glaze. Mix glaze ingredients together with a whisk and drizzle over cake.
• Store on countertop for 3 days or in refrigerator up to 7 days.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 F.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• Grease and flour a bundt or tube pan.
• In a separate large mixing bowl combine the butter and shortening on medium speed until nice and creamy.
• Slow staring adding in the sugar.
• Add each egg, one at a time.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with the half & half.
• Reduce the mixers speed from medium to low
• Stir in vanilla extract, lime zest, and lime juice.
• Pour the batter into prepared pan.
• Make sure the batter is even in the pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes, or until done
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 25 to 30 minutes before removing from the pan
• Combine the ingredients for the icing.
• When the cake is at room temperature, ice the cake.
• Serve & enjoy.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan; line with parchment paper.
• Beat white sugar, butter, and shortening together with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy.
• Sift cake flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add flour mixture, eggs, and cream alternately to the butter mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat on low speed just until blended. Stir in Key lime juice, lime zest, and vanilla extract. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes; remove cake from the pan to cool completely.
• While cake cools, combine powdered sugar, Key lime juice, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Immediately brush glaze over the top and sides of the cake.

MADE FROM SCRATCH LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly grease and flour cakepan.
• In a separate bowl, sift flour and baking soda and set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix together sugar, eggs, egg whites, veggie oil, water and lime juice. Add in sour cream and gelatine. Then gradually add in the presifted flour and baking soda.
• Pour into prepared cakepan and bake at 350 for approximately 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Allow to cool for 20 minutes or so, before removing from pan.
• While cooling prepare glaze. Add together confectioner's sugar, lime juice, water or milk and stir until smooth.
• Pour glaze over warm cake and allow to cool.