Recipe of Favorite Zesty Lime Cake

Zesty Lime Cake.

You can have Zesty Lime Cake using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Zesty Lime Cake

1. It's of Cake Batter.
2. You need 160 g of Caster sugar.
3. Prepare 200 g of Salted Butter.
4. It's 170 g of Self-Raising Flour.
5. You need 4 of Medium Eggs.
6. It's of Slash of vanilla.
7. You need 2 tsp of Baking Powder.
8. You need Pinch of Salt.
9. Prepare of Zest of 3 Limes.
10. You need of Juice of 1 Lime.
11. Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
12. You need 200 g of Cream cheese.
13. You need 200 g of Double Cream.
14. It's 50 g of Icing Sugar (add to taste).
15. Prepare of Juice of 1 Lime.
16. Prepare of Zest of 2 Limes.
17. Prepare of Drizzle.
18. It's 200 g of Caster Sugar.
19. It's of Juice of 2 Limes.

Zesty Lime Cake step by step

1. 1. Start by preheating the oven to 190C/ fan 170C. Then line two 20cm sandwich tins with baking paper and put to one side..
2. In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar together using a spatula or wooden spoon..
3. 3. Now add two eggs, mix to combine and then sieve half the flour also mixing to combine. Repeat this once more..
4. 4. Add the baking powder, vanilla, milk, lime zest and juice to complete the sponge batter..
5. 5. Divide the mixture into the two tins and place on the same tray in oven for 20 minutes. You’ll know it is done when you stick a cocktail stick in the middle and it comes out clean..
6. 6. Once the sponges have cooled to room temperature, whip the double cream to soft peaks and add the cream cheese, icing sugar, lime zest and juice. Spread the soft cheese mixture across one of the sponges and place the second sponge on top..
7. 7. Combine the caster sugar and lime juice and drizzle over the top of the cake. Feel free to add more zest to the top of the cake to finish the cake..