Recipe for the Month of January ~ Amazing Key Lime Cake!!!!!

Looking for a delicious dessert?  Something sweet but with a slight zesty flavor?  A dessert that looks absolutely beautiful?  Well, here it is ~ KEY LIME CAKE!!!  A friend of ours served this lovely cake to us and we just had to get the recipe.  Jasmine has already made it several times and says that it is surprising how easy it can be to make such an elegant cake!

Is your mouth watering yet??? Mine Is! :)

 

Ok.  So here's the recipe:

 

Key Lime Cake

Ingredients:

1 Box Lemon Cake Mix

4 Eggs

1 1/3 C. Vegetable Oil

3/4 C. orange juice

1 small pkg. lime jello

Juice from 2 Limes

6 Tbsp. Powdered sugar

 

Mix first five ingredients together and beat well.  Grease and flour 3 round 9" cake pans.  Divide batter evenly into each pan and Bake at 350* for 15- 20 min.  Remove layers from pans.  Mix lime juice and powder sugar, spoon over layers while they are hot.

 

Frosting:

8 oz. cream cheese

1 Cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 Container of Cool Whip

1 Cup chopped Pecans

 

Mix together cream cheese, sugars, and cool whip.  Frost cake. (after cooled)  Sprinkle pecans on top and refrigerate.  Enjoy!!!!

 

 

 

Posted by Lacy