Key Lime Poundcake Recipes

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 POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Beat butter and shortening at medium speed in an electric stand mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• In a bowl, 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 tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
• Glaze-whisk together the powdered sugar, lime juice, and vanilla until smooth; immediately brush over top and sides of cake.
• Cool completely (1 hour); garnish if desired.

KEY LIME POUNDCAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Heat oven to 325 degrees. Generously butter and flour a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Sift the flour and baking powder and set aside.
• Mix butter and cream cheese in bowl of a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer on medium speed, until blended; gradually add sugar and beat on medium speed for 5 minutes until light in color and fluffy. Add the beaten eggs about a quarter at a time, fully incorporating before adding the next.
• Add lime zest and mix to incorporate. Add dry ingredients alternately with lime juice, beginning and ending with flour mixture and adding juice in two additions. Mix just enough to incorporate. Pour batter into pan until it is just 3/4-inch from the top (you may have a little batter left over; do not use it or you risk overflow). Firmly tap the pan on the counter a few times to reduce air pockets.
• Bake for about 1 hour, or until just set in the middle. Check cake after 30 minutes; if top is browning too quickly, tent with foil. If the cake is not set in the middle after an hour, continue baking, checking middle at 5-minute intervals, until set.
• Cool in the pan for 20 minutes; loosen edges and turn out cake onto plate with raised edges to contain the glaze.
• Meanwhile, make the glaze: In a glass bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter until well blended and a little fluffy, about 2 minutes. With the mixer on slow speed, gradually add confectioners' sugar until fully incorporated, then beat for 20 to 30 seconds.
• Mix in the lime juice, then heat the mixture in a microwave oven for a minute or more until it is very warm and loose. Using a wooden skewer, poke several holes in the cake. Pour half the glaze over cake, let sit for 10 minutes, pour remaining glaze over cake and sprinkle with lime zest.

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.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325°. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy.
• 2. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• 3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• 4. Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• 5. Add some of the flour to butter mixture.
• 6. Alternate with milk. Beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• 7. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice.
• 8. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) tube or Bundt pan.
• 9. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 10. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes.
• 11. Prepare the Key Lime Glaze by mixing together 1 c powdered sugar, 2 Tbsp key lime juice, and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.
• 12. Remove cake from the pan.
• 13. Immediately brush glaze over top and sides of the cake.
• 14. Cool completely (about 1 hour).

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F).
• In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, cream together the sugar and butter.
• Beat until light and fluffy.
• Add key lime juice, lime rind and vanilla.
• Add one egg at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Mix in sour cream.
• Sift in flour and baking soda.
• Mix to blend thoroughly.
• Spoon batter into a greased 10" Bundt pan or tube pan.
• Bake for 60-65 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes before turning cake out of pan.
• Meanwhile, make the glaze by combining confectioners' sugar and key lime juice.
• Mix until smooth.
• Pour glaze over warm cake.
• Let cool completely before serving.