Category: Traditional Meals

Key Lime Cream Cake

Cakes Desserts Favorite Birthday Meals

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Key Lime Cream Cake

 

2 cups all purpose flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 eggs

2/3 cup oil

2/3 cup key lime juice

3/4 cup sour cream

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 8-inch cake pans.
  • Sift flour, sugar, powder, soda and salt into mixer.
  • Add eggs, oil and lime juice. Beat until smooth.
  • Add sour cream and beat until smooth.
  • Pour in prepared pans and bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool and frost.

Frosting

1 cup butter, softened

2 – 8 oz packages cream cheese, softened

2 – 16 oz boxes confectioners’ sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup key lime juice (optional)

green food coloring (optional for color)

  • Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in vanilla. For really creamy frosting, mix in 1/4 cup of key lime juice. You can also leave it out or add more confectioners sugar to make it thicker. Add a small amount of green food color if you’d like the frosting tinted.

Whipped Cream

16 oz. heavy whipping cream

3 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

  • Chill metal bowl and beaters in freezer for about 20 minutes. When ready to whip, add ingredients to the bowl and beat until stiff peaks form.

Divide cake into four layers and frost. Pipe top with whipped cream or add crushed graham crackers to the side of the cake if desired. Refrigerate.

Best Caramels

Candy Christmas Desserts

2 C. Sugar

1 C. Packed brown sugar

1 C. Corn syrup

1 C. Evaporated milk

1 pint Heavy whipping cream

1 C. Butter

1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla

Grease a 12 x 15 ” pan. In a medium-sized pot, combine sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup, evaporated milk, whipping cream and butter. Monitor the heat of mixture with a candy thermometer while stirring on medium heat. When the thermometer reaches 250 degrees Fahrenheit remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and nuts if you want. Transfer mixture quickly to greased pan and let cool completely. Cut and wrap in wax paper.

Notes: Make thicker caramels by using a smaller pan. Consequently it will take longer to cool, though. It takes quite a while to get to 250, so about when your arm gets tired from stirring, turn the heat up to medium-high. What this does is gets it to the desired temperature quicker AND when the caramels are dry it adds a special effect on the way they turn out. It’s hard to describe!

Fajitas

Favorite Birthday Meals Main Dishes Traditional Meals

Fajitas for a Family of Four

(Start the day before)

3/4 Balsamic Vinegar

1/2 t Salt

1 t + 1 T Cumin

2 T Chili Powder

1 t Garlic powder

Mix vinegar with meat. Add garlic powder, cumin, and chili powder. Mix

Family Size

Pour a good amount of vinegar in

Put a nice even layer of garlic powder on

Put on a layer of chili powder

Put a layer of cumin on

Put a bit of salt on.

Mix. It will be a little dry.