Easy Key Lime Cake with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

Plated slice of key lime cake with cream cheese frosting.

4.86 from 108 votes

Easy Key Lime Cake with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

Rich, bright, and fluffy, my Easy Key Lime Cake with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting has a tangy lime flavor with decadent cream cheese frosting.

Course Breakfast. Side

Cuisine American/Southern

Keyword cake, dessert

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 27

Total Time 42

Servings servings

Calories 381kcal

Author Paula

Ingredients

For the cake

1 package white cake mix
3 ounces lime flavored gelatin
½ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup orange juice
4 large eggs
2 tablespoons Nellie & Joe’s Key West Lime Juice freshly squeezed, or lime juice
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

For the Frosting

½ cup butter at room temperature
8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
3 and ½ cups powdered sugar (aka confectioners) sifted before measuring
2 tablespoons Nellie & Joe’s Key West Lime Juice freshly squeezed, or lime juice
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

For the cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 3 - 8 inch round cakes pans or 1 - 9x13 cake pan.
In a large mixing bowl, add cake mix and gelatin. Add ½ cup oil and ¾ cup orange juice and beat on low.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add lime juice and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes on med hi, scraping sides.
Pour into cake pans. Bake 8 inch layers 22-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Bake 9x13 inch cake 27- 30 minutes. Cool completely before icing with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting.
*For the stacked layered cake, I used three 8 inch pans and cooked them for 27 minutes at 350 degrees.

For the Frosting

Beat 1/2 cup butter and 8 ounces cream cheese until smooth, add confectioners sugar with a mixer on low. Add lime juice and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Frost cake.

Notes

Recipe from Paula @CallMePMc.com All images and content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission that includes copying the ingredient list or entire recipe and posting in the comments on Pinterest for Facebook. If you want to share this recipe, please simply link back to this post for the recipe.

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