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 easy. Regularly add the sugar and proceed to combine on medium pace for 3 to five minutes till lightened in coloration and fluffy.

• Add the eggs one by one 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 heart comes out clear or with simply few crumbs connected. Let cool 10 minutes and prove.

For the Key Lime Curd

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

• Prepare dinner on medium low warmth, stirring till substances are easy 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’ll thicken extra because it cools.

• Take away the sauce pan from the warmth.

• Pour the lime curd right into a warmth proof bowl. Enable to chill 15-20 minutes. Then, calmly press a bit of plastic wrap onto the highest of the curd to forestall 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 grow 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 steadily growing to medium excessive pace.

• Combine till the cream thickens (approx. 1 ½ minutes) and stiff peaks type. You have reached the stiff peak stage when the beaters will be lifted from the bowl and a peak of whipped cream kinds 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 easy.

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

• Add the important thing lime juice

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

• This frosting will pipe finest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You can also make it prematurely, refrigerate and when prepared to make use of let it soften barely and remix. If the frosting turns into too mushy 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 could possibly additionally use a ziplock bag with the nook snipped away. If you do not have both, simply permit ½ inch of area between the filling and the sting of the cake in order that there is no such thing as a fear of the filling escaping.

• Subsequent, fill within the piped dam with a layer of lime curd adopted by a layer of whipped cream. High with the second cake layer and repeat. High 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 forestall sliding as you beautify.

• Subsequent, add the second layer of frosting. Enhance nonetheless you want! I rotated the cake on a turntable and used a cake comb to embellish 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, underneath a cake dome, or in a sealed bakery field. Nevertheless, for the easiest texture and taste, we suggest eradicating the cake from the fridge 2-3 hours earlier than serving. This enables time for the cake and frosting to heat and soften.