Lime & Coconut Icebox Cake with Fresh Whipped Cream
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Lime & Coconut Icebox Cake with Fresh Whipped Cream recipe combines the ever-popular Icebox Pie with a layer cake. This dessert is cool and refreshing. Spiked with tropical flavors of citrus and coconut this makes a tasty hot weather dessert.
I’m really pleased with how this came out. It’s a great alternative to Key Lime Pie for the summer.
Lime & Coconut Icebox Cake with Fresh Whipped Cream
I made this white cake from scratch. If you prefer, you can just as easily use a white cake mix. It will still be delicious.
Wait until the cake is completely cool before frosting. For a more professional cake, remove the domes from the tops of the cake layers with a cake leveler or large serrated knife.
Frost with an offset spatula. This makes it really easy to get an even layer.
How to make this cake
First, you will make the cake layers. Always have your
While the cake is baking you can make the lime filling. This process is similar to make lemon or lime curd.
Next, make the frosting. Use caution and don’t overbeat.
Wait until the cake is completely cool before frosting. For a more professional cake, remove the domes from the tops of the cake layers with a cake leveler or large serrated knife. Using an offset spatula makes it really easy to get an even layer of frosting.
Lime & Coconut Icebox Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup coconut water unsweetened
- 2/3 cup whole milk
- 3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- 1 lime juice about 1 T
- 6 large egg whites
Lime Filling
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 3 Tablespoon butter
- 1 Tablespoon lime zest
Homemade Whipped Cream
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
- 2 Tablespoon powdered sugar (aka confectioners)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sweetened coconut flakes
Instructions
For cake:
- Beat butter and shortening at medium speed until fluffy; add sugar and cream until fluffy.
- Combine coconut water and milk. Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Add butter mixture alternately with milk mixture. Begin and end with flour mixture. Add lime zest and juice.
- Beat egg whites at medium speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form; fold in to batter.
- Pour batter into a 9x13 pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden skewer inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes.
- Remove cake from pan onto a wire rack. Cool completely.
Lime Filling:
- Whisk 3/4 c milk and 1/4 c cornstarch in a 3 quart heavy saucepan, whisking until cornstarch dissolves. Add sweetened condensed milk and eggs until blended. Whisk in lime juice.
- Boil 1 minute, whisking constantly or until mixture thickens. Remove from heat. Whisk in butter and lime zest. Pour filling into a bowl and place bowl in a larger bowl filled with ice. Stir until cold about 10 minutes.
- Cut cake horizontally into 2 equal parts. Spread lime filling on bottom layer. Replace top. Spread Whipped Topping over entire cake and sprinkle coconut over topping.
For Whipped Topping:
- In a large bowl, whip cream until stiff peaks are just about to form. Beat in vanilla and sugar until peaks form. Stop. Do not over-beat, cream will become lumpy and butter-like. Sprinkle 1/4 c flaked coconut on top.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
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Perfect Combo!!! Sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing at Sweet & Savory Saturdays #12!
~Amber
Dessert Now, Dinner Later!
http://dessertnowdinnerlater.blogspot.com
Thanks Amber!
Hi! I found you at Ducks ‘n a Row and had to come get this recipe! I’m a sucker for anything lemon or lime so I have to try this recipe!
I hope you will join me Friday for my very first Foodie Friday Blog Hop where you can link up your favorite recipe(s) and find some new ones, as well.
Have a wonderful week and I hope to see you Friday!
Melissa @ A Room for Two with a View
OMGosh, that cake looks amazing, I may have to make it tomorrow!
Popping in from Oh, Mrs. Tucker!
Thank you!! I sent that one to school, I need to make US one now 🙂
This lovely citrus flavored cake is just the kind of dessert that I can eat, no matter how full I am!
Thank you. Me too, I always save room for dessert (prob not a good thing)
Thanks so much, Paula. for sharing this link on my hop. THIS week, your post is one of my features. It is so gorgeous….must be seen! Stop by tonight and add some more?
Thanks so much. ♥
Blessings,
Sinea
Ducks ‘n a Row
Wow. This looks like the perfect cake–nothing better than lime and coconut!
Thank you! I do love a really moist cake and this one is with the filling, of course, I could just eat the filling by itself too 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
I read cookbooks like novels too… your blog reflects all the energy you put into it… very impressive. Now the dessert, love it! Such a great warm weather treat, thanks so much for sharing on foodie friday Paula.
Thank you, Diane! I do love blogging, sometimes I wonder if anybody is reading, but I love it all the same 🙂
I love this idea! The warmer weather is making me crave lime like nothing else. 🙂
Me too! Lemons and Limes and Coconut, yum! They all say Summer to me!
Yum!
I would love for you to share and link up at my TGIF Link Party.
http://apeekintomyparadise.blogspot.com/2013/05/tgif-link-party-2.html
Hugs, Cathy
Wow…this is sooooo beautiful. Any chance you might stop by my blog hop this week and add the link?
It is Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop and goes live TUESDAY nights at 7pm EDT.
Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Sinea
Ducks ‘n a Row