Key Lime Cake

Last year when Mitch's birthday was approaching, Simon insisted we make his favorite dessert (key lime pie), and Lydia insisted we have a type of cake. Google search to the rescue! I found a Cake Doctor type of Key Lime Cake recipe that looked decent. It was close to amazing tasting, but needed a little tweaking. After a few more attempts and fine tuning, we now have this delicious recipe!!

Ingredients:

Cake:

1 box lemon cake mix

1 C oil

4 eggs

1 small package vanilla pudding

1/4 C orange juice

1/2 C lime juice (fresh squeezed)

lime zest of 3 limes

Cream cheese frosting:

1/2 C butter

8 oz cream cheese

3 Tbsp lime juice

4 C powdered sugar

Directions:

1.) Combine cake mix, oil, eggs, pudding and citrus juices, following mixing directions on the back of box.

2.) Bake in 2 cake pans, according to directions on back of box.

3.) Allow cakes to completely cool on wire racks.

4.) To make frosting, allow butter and cream cheese to warm at room temperature for about 2 hours.

5.) With electric mixer, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.

6.) Add in lime juice and mix.

7.) Mix in powdered sugar 1/2 C at a time, until the frosting has reached the desired thickness.

8.) Blend half of the lime zest into the frosting.

8.) Place cakes on serving platter and frost cakes.

9.) Sprinkle the remaining lime zest on the top of the cake.

10.) Chill for at least 8 hours.

11.) Enjoy!

Serves 12.