Strawberry Limeade Cake is the recipe that Teresa makes every summer birthday and every special warm-weather celebration when she wants to put the most completely stunning and most genuinely extraordinary cake on the table that immediately stops every person in the room with the most vibrant green lime cake layers visible through the most gorgeously pink
And most deeply strawberry-cream-cheese-frosted exterior — because this is genuinely the most beautiful and most completely unexpected summer celebration cake that combines the most zippy and most deeply aromatic fresh lime flavor baked into a dense and beautifully moist lime cake with the most creamy and most perfectly tangy strawberry cream cheese frosting that is simultaneously the most gorgeously colored and the most completely extraordinary frosting combination imaginable.
She creams the butter with lime zest and sugar until the most fluffy, adds eggs and lime juice and green food coloring, alternates the flour mixture with milk, bakes until perfectly springy, and then whips the most vibrant pink strawberry cream cheese frosting from butter, cream cheese, pureed sweetened strawberries, and powdered sugar.
Strawberry Limeade Cake is the most easy and deeply stunning summer layer cake made with cake flour baking powder butter lime zest sugar eggs lime juice milk and green food coloring baked at 350°F for 25 minutes layered with strawberry cream cheese frosting of butter cream cheese pureed strawberries and powdered sugar. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cake recipes and easy summer celebration favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
This Strawberry Limeade Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and most genuinely show-stopping summer celebration cake that produces the most dramatic and most completely unexpected visual reveal when sliced — the most vibrant green lime cake layers contrasting against the most gorgeously pink strawberry cream cheese frosting — while simultaneously delivering the most beautifully balanced and most deeply refreshing flavor combination of zippy lime and most naturally sweet strawberry that tastes exactly like the most beloved summer limeade in the most completely luxurious cake form.
The addition of a small amount of cream cheese to the strawberry buttercream frosting is the single most brilliant frosting decision in the entire recipe. The cream cheese provides the most beautiful tangy creaminess that contrasts perfectly with the most zippy and bright lime cake layers beneath, creating the most completely extraordinary flavor partnership that is far more sophisticated and most deeply satisfying than either a conventional strawberry buttercream or a plain cream cheese frosting alone. Our Strawberry Shortcake Cake makes a beautifully equally strawberry-vibrant and equally celebration-worthy companion for a complete and wonderful summer strawberry cake collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
For the Lime Cake Layers:
- 2½ cups Cake Flour
- 2½ tsp Baking Powder
- 1 stick (½ cup) Salted Butter
- 2 tbsp Fresh Lime Zest
- 1½ cups Granulated Sugar
- 3 large Eggs
- 3 large Egg Yolks
- ½ cup Whole Milk
- ½ cup Fresh Lime Juice
- 2 to 4 drops Green Food Coloring
For the Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting:
- ¾ cup (12 tbsp) Salted Butter, room temperature
- 4 oz Cream Cheese, softened
- ½ cup Frozen Sweetened Strawberries in Syrup, thawed and pureed
- 5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar
How to Make This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 8-inch round cake pans and set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the cake flour and baking powder. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar, and lime zest on medium speed for two minutes until the most light and most beautifully fluffy mixture forms.
Add the eggs and egg yolks one at a time, beating and scraping the sides of the bowl after each addition. Add the fresh lime juice and mix until smooth, cara mia.
Add the flour mixture and milk to the butter mixture alternately, starting and ending with flour. Stir in 2 to 4 drops of green food coloring. Give the batter a thorough stir from the bottom to ensure even color distribution, then pour evenly into the two prepared pans.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes until the tops spring back when lightly touched in the center. Remove from oven and let cool in pans for 7 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
For the strawberry cream cheese frosting, beat the room-temperature butter and softened cream cheese on medium speed until completely smooth. Add the pureed thawed strawberry mixture, beating on low speed until smooth.
Add 5 cups of sifted powdered sugar and continue beating on low until just combined. Increase mixer speed to high and beat for one minute. If the frosting is too thin, add the additional cup of powdered sugar and beat until the most perfectly thick and most beautifully spreadable consistency is achieved.
Level the completely cooled cakes with a serrated knife. Frost and assemble. Keep stored in the refrigerator.
How to Serve This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Serve cold from the refrigerator for the most completely refreshing and most deeply satisfying strawberry limeade cake experience when both the most dense and beautifully moist lime layers and the most creamy and most tangy strawberry cream cheese frosting are at their most completely extraordinary cold serving temperature.
Present on a beautiful white cake stand for the most stunning and most genuinely summer-perfect celebration centerpiece that immediately impresses every guest with the most dramatic green-cake-and-pink-frosting visual reveal. Our Fresh Strawberry Cake makes a beautifully equally vibrant and equally celebration-worthy companion for a complete and wonderful summer strawberry cake collection.
How to Store This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Keep uneaten cake stored in the refrigerator, covered, for up to 5 days. The lime flavor deepens most beautifully during refrigerator storage. For an extra moist and most deeply lime-flavored result, brush the leveled cake layers with a little additional fresh lime juice before frosting.
Tips to Make This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Keep a very close watch on this cake during baking. Even a small amount of overbaking produces a noticeably drier and more crumbly result rather than the most beautifully dense and most perfectly moist lime cake that makes this recipe so completely extraordinary. Check the cake several minutes before the full 25-minute mark and remove at the first sign the tops spring back.
For extra lime moisture and the most deeply flavored lime cake layers, brush the leveled cake tops with fresh lime juice using a pastry brush immediately after leveling and before adding the strawberry cream cheese frosting. This lime wash adds the most beautiful citrus brightness and most extraordinary moistness.
Helpful Notes for This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
The cake layers are described as slightly dense and moist rather than the most airy and most traditionally light layer cake. This density is the most intentional and most completely desirable characteristic of this strawberry limeade cake — it produces the most substantial and most satisfying individual slice that holds together most beautifully under the weight of the most generously applied strawberry cream cheese frosting.
If the strawberry cream cheese frosting is too thin after the initial mixing, add powdered sugar a quarter cup at a time until the most perfectly thick and most cleanly spreadable consistency is achieved. If it is too thick, add a teaspoon of the strawberry syrup from the thawed strawberries at a time until the most beautifully smooth and most flowing frosting consistency forms.
Variation of This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Maria made a version pressing fresh strawberry slices between the two cake layers beneath the cream cheese frosting for the most completely extraordinary fresh strawberry limeade layer cake. Teresa tried adding a teaspoon of coconut extract to the lime cake batter for the most completely tropical and most deeply extraordinary strawberry limeade coconut cake.
For a raspberry limeade version, substitute the strawberry puree in the frosting with the same quantity of pureed fresh raspberries for the most vibrant and most deeply tart raspberry lime cake. Our Lemon Cake makes a beautifully equally citrus-vibrant and equally moist companion for a complete and wonderful citrus summer cake collection.
FAQs About This Strawberry Limeade Cake Recipe
Why does the frosting include cream cheese?
The cream cheese in the strawberry frosting adds the most beautifully tangy and most deeply creamy quality that contrasts most perfectly with the zippy and most intensely lime-flavored cake layers beneath. A conventional strawberry buttercream without cream cheese is sweeter and less nuanced. The cream cheese creates the most completely balanced and most sophisticated frosting that makes this cake extraordinary rather than merely good.
Can I use a different food coloring or skip it?
The green food coloring is purely for the most beautiful and most dramatically unexpected visual effect of the vibrant green cake layers. It adds no flavor whatsoever and can be omitted entirely for a more natural pale yellow-green lime cake. The flavor will be completely identical whether the food coloring is included or not.
Can I use fresh strawberries instead of frozen sweetened strawberries in syrup?
For the most intensely flavored and most vibrantly colored strawberry cream cheese frosting, frozen sweetened strawberries in syrup are the most specifically recommended because the syrup concentrates and preserves the most deep strawberry flavor and the most beautiful natural pink color. Fresh strawberries pureed and mixed with a tablespoon of sugar and allowed to macerate for 20 minutes make a reasonable substitute.
Conclusion
This Strawberry Limeade Cake is the most completely extraordinary and most deeply stunning summer celebration cake that makes every birthday and every warm gathering feel genuinely and completely extraordinary through the most vibrant green lime layers and the most gorgeously pink strawberry cream cheese frosting in every single beautifully dense and completely irresistible strawberry limeade cake slice. We hope it brings the same deeply joyful summer celebration and the same completely delighted table to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Strawberry Limeade Cake The Most Easy Moist Lime Layer Cake Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting You Will Bake
- Total Time: 52 minutes plus cooling
- Yield: 10 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most stunning Strawberry Limeade Cake made by beating 1 stick salted butter 1 1/2 cups sugar and 2 tbsp lime zest on medium 2 minutes adding 3 eggs and 3 yolks one at a time then fresh lime juice alternating 2 1/2 cups cake flour and baking powder with 1/2 cup milk stirring in 2 to 4 drops green food coloring pouring into two buttered floured 8-inch pans and baking at 350°F for 25 minutes until tops spring back cooling completely then frosting with strawberry cream cheese frosting of room temperature butter softened cream cheese thawed pureed sweetened strawberries and 5 to 6 cups powdered sugar beaten smooth. A completely extraordinary summer lime strawberry layer cake recipe.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups Cake Flour
2 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1 stick 1/2 cup Salted Butter
2 tbsp Fresh Lime Zest
1 1/2 cups Granulated Sugar
3 large Eggs
3 large Egg Yolks
1/2 cup Whole Milk
1/2 cup Fresh Lime Juice
2 to 4 drops Green Food Coloring
3/4 cup 12 tbsp Salted Butter room temperature for frosting
4 oz Cream Cheese softened
1/2 cup Frozen Sweetened Strawberries in Syrup thawed and pureed
5 to 6 cups Powdered Sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 8-inch round pans.
2. Combine cake flour and baking powder in medium bowl. Set aside.
3. Beat butter, sugar, and lime zest on medium 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time beating and scraping after each. Add lime juice. Mix until smooth.
5. Alternate flour mixture and milk starting and ending with flour. Stir in green food coloring. Stir from bottom.
6. Pour evenly into prepared pans.
7. Bake 25 minutes until tops spring back when touched.
8. Cool in pans 7 minutes. Remove to wire racks. Cool completely.
9. For frosting: beat room temperature butter and softened cream cheese until smooth. Add pureed strawberries on low until smooth.
10. Add 5 cups powdered sugar. Beat low until combined. Increase high 1 minute.
11. If too thin add additional cup powdered sugar.
12. Level cooled cakes with serrated knife. Frost and assemble.
13. Refrigerate.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cake, Summer
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 744
- Sugar: 68g
- Sodium: 285mg
- Fat: 32g
- Saturated Fat: 19g
- Unsaturated Fat: 11g
- Trans Fat: 1g
- Carbohydrates: 108g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 175mg
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