Key Lime Cake – My Cake College

• Preheat the oven to 350 levels, grease and flour three 8×2 inch spherical pans.(We additionally like so as to add circles of parchment to the underside of the pans.)

• In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Put aside.

• In one other bowl, add the buttermilk, vegetable oil, lime zest and key lime juice.  Put aside.

• Within the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and blend at medium pace till clean. Progressively add the sugar and proceed to combine on medium pace for 3 to five minutes till lightened in coloration and fluffy.

• Add the eggs separately mixing till the yellow of the yolk disappears.

• With the mixer on low pace, alternately add the flour combination and buttermilk combination, starting and ending with the dry substances (3 additions of dry substances and a couple of of liquid). Combine simply till mixed (don’t overmix).

• Divide batter between three ready 8 inch cake pans.

• Bake at 350 levels for 22-24 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear or with simply few crumbs hooked up. Let cool 10 minutes and end up.

For the Key Lime Curd

• In a medium sized sauce pan, add the sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, water, key lime juice, and butter (zest elective). Stir to mix.

• Prepare dinner on medium low warmth, stirring till substances are clean and nicely mixed. Then, enhance to medium excessive warmth and stir always because the combination thickens and begins effervescent. Scale back warmth and proceed stirring for a few minute more- it’s prepared when it takes on a pudding-like thickness/consistency. It can thicken extra because it cools.

• Take away the sauce pan from the warmth.

• Pour the lime curd right into a warmth proof bowl. Permit to chill 15-20 minutes. Then, calmly press a chunk of plastic wrap onto the highest of the curd to stop a “pores and skin” from forming. Refrigerate till cool. The curd will thicken additional because it cools.

• When prepared to make use of, take away from the fridge and permit to heat a bit and stir for simpler spreading. If it has turn out to be thicker than you would like, stir in a small quantity of water or key lime juice till mixed. .

For the Whipped Cream

• Chill the blending bowl and beaters/ whisk attachment within the freezer for 10 minutes.

• Pour the whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla into the chilled mixing bowl, start beating on low pace step by step growing to medium excessive pace.

• Combine till the cream thickens (approx. 1 ½ minutes) and stiff peaks kind. You have reached the stiff peak stage when the beaters might be lifted from the bowl and a peak of whipped cream types and holds its form. Watch out to not over-mix.

For the Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

• Add the softened butter to the bowl of your mixer, combine till clean.

• Minimize the softened cream cheese into items and add to the butter, mixing till blended.

• Add the important thing lime juice

• Progressively add powdered sugar, mixing on low pace till mixed. Progressively enhance the pace to medium, mixing till clean and creamy. Watch out to not over combine.

• This frosting will pipe greatest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You may make it upfront, refrigerate and when prepared to make use of let it soften barely and remix. If the frosting turns into too comfortable whereas utilizing simply refrigerate the piping bag or bowl for a short time to agency it up.

Assembling the Cake

• Place the primary cooled cake layer on the cake plate or pedestal. Utilizing a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away, pipe a dam about ¼ inch from the sting from the cake layer all the best way round. **If you do not have disposable piping luggage, you possibly can additionally use a ziplock bag with the nook snipped away. If you do not have both, simply enable ½ inch of house between the filling and the sting of the cake in order that there isn’t any fear of the filling escaping.

• Subsequent, fill inside the piped dam with a layer of lime curd adopted by a layer of whipped cream. Prime with the second cake layer and repeat. Prime with the third cake layer. Fill in any gaps between the layers with cream cheese frosting. (I do that with the identical bag used to pipe the dam).

• Frost the cake with a skinny (crumb coat) of frosting. At this level, we wish to freeze the cake for quarter-hour (or chill within the fridge for a bit longer) to agency up this primary layer of frosting. This step helps to stop sliding as you beautify.

• Subsequent, add the second layer of frosting. Embellish nonetheless you want! I rotated the cake on a turntable and used a cake comb to brighten the edges. I added borders utilizing a 1M (giant star) piping tip. I topped it with a sprinkling of lime zest.

Storing the Cake

• Due to the filling and frosting, this cake must be refrigerated in an hermetic container, below a cake dome, or in a sealed bakery field. Nonetheless, for the perfect texture and taste, we suggest eradicating the cake from the fridge 2-3 hours earlier than serving. This permits time for the cake and frosting to heat and soften.