Key Lime Sheet Cake
This Key Lime Sheet Cake is a tart and sweet cake with a delicious creamy frosting. It has a light and refreshing flavor and is loved by all who try it! If you love the citrusy flavors, then this cake is for you!
If you can’t tell by now, I LOVE sheet cakes. Whether its a Peanut Butter Sheet Cake, Caramel Apple Sheet Cake, German Chocolate Sheet Cake or a Creme Brûlée Sheet Cake… I couldn’t say no to any of them!
After making the Key Lime Bundt Cake, I knew I needed to get in a Key Lime Sheet Cake before summer ended. Key Limes are so cute and little but jam packed with tart and tangy flavor.
This Cake has such a tart and sweet flavor all at once. The creamy frosting on top is the perfect finishing touch and together the cake and icing make a heavenly bite each and every time!
If you are a fan of the citrusy flavors, then this cake is an absolute MUST! I know you will love it as much as we do!
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup key lime juice
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup butter
- 4 Tablespoons milk
- 2 Tablespoons key lime juice
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spray a 15x10x1 inch baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, measure flour and sugar. Set aside.
- In a medium sauce pan, combine butter, water, and shortening. Bring to a boil. After mixture reaches a boil, add key lime juice. Next add the flour/ sugar mixture and stir to combine.
- Add buttermilk, then baking soda, then eggs, then vanilla in that order, mixing in-between each addition.
- Pour into a greased cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes
- Frosting
- Combine butter, and milk in a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil, stir in key lime juice, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth.
- After cake has cooked cool for 15 minutes, and poke holes in cake with a fork. Spread frosting evenly over the top of the cake.
Enjoy!
Susan P
Are key limes available this time of year?
Maryh
Looks delicious!
Jeannie
This cake is one of the best cakes I've ever made. It was very moist and full of citrusy flavor. I did poke the holes in the cake but I won't the next time. Its not necessary and the holes show through the frosting.