Strawberry Lime Cake
A sweet and refreshing spring time treat – lime cake filled and topped with luscious strawberry cream. A dreamy creamy cake which definitely breathes spring.
The inspiration of this cake is from Sunita’s Mini Lemon Bundts recipe. This recipe appealed to me with a certain sense of urgency, so much that I rescheduled or rather abandoned what I had to do and immediately set to bake this. Eggless, simple and with abundant space to innovative, this freestyle recipe gave my heart a flutter. I had lime, flour, cream and strawberries. So it was going to be a lime cake filled with strawberry cream – almost like a strawberry shortcake.
Of course any one else would have at least taken an effort to make it look pretty. But I am impatient!
Strawberry Lime Cake
Ingredients:
- grated zest of 2 lime
- 1.5 cups all purpose flour
- 2.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 1.5 cups + 3 tablespoons milk
- 12 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 12 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 cup lime juice (juice of about 2 limes)
For the strawberry cream:
- 20 strawberries, hulled and halved
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- 500 ml heavy cream, chilled + 4 tablespoons icing sugar
- 1/2 cup water
Preparation: (the steps for baking the cake is exactly as in the original recipe, except I increased the proportion and used all purpose flour)
Pre heat the oven at 325 degree F and grease cake pan. (I used a spring foam-9 inch X 3 inch. If you want a taller cake for more tiers use a smaller pan).
In a bowl, place the flour, baking powder, soda and zest and rub everything together with the fingertips.
In another bowl, whisk together the milk, oil and the sugar.
Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and tip in the milk mixture. Gently fold in. Add the lime juice and fold in.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and tap against the counter. Place the pan in the center of the pre heated oven and bake for about 30 minutes or till the top is golden and a toothpick inserted through the center of the cakes comes out clean.
Cool the cake completely, before moving on the next step.
When the cake is completely cool, carefully divide the cake into horizontal halves.
Sprinkle the 1/2 cup sugar and the lime zest on the strawberry halves and mash them coarsely with a potato masher. Let them macerate for at least an hour and a half.Whip the chilled heavy cream and the icing sugar till they form soft peaks. Strain out the macerated strawberries and save the juice.
Gently fold in about 3/4 of the strained strawberries in the heavy cream. (Save the rest of the strawberries to top the cake). Chill the strawberry cream.
Place the cake half with the cut side up on a cake plate.
Combine the saved strawberry juice with the half cup of water and drizzle half of this to cake with the cut side up.
Take out the chilled strawberry cream and spread half of it on the cake. Put the other half of the cake on the top of this. Drizzle the rest of the water and juice mix on the top half. Spread rest of the strawberry cream on the cake and top off with the macerated strawberries and some sliced lime.
Chill completely before serving.
Save yourself a slice before you serve! Believe me, it will be gone before you know it.
Sending this to Nupur’s ADAPTATION. (“..try a recipe from another blog and adapt it in some way..”)
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What a pretty cake!
I love the topping and look of the yummy cake. Fantastic click
Hamaree Rasoi
What a beautiful cake!!!! The strawberry cream sounds amazing!
Oh how pretty the green with the pink. It looks both delightful and delicious.
Love strawberries. This sounds delicious.
I can see why you would be impatient to eat this!! My mouth is watering by just looking at those gorgeous photos!
what a pretty cake Soma. looks fabulous.
Amazing recipe.
Keep up the delicious posts. 🙂
That cake looks extremely scrumptious and fresh!
Cheers,
Rosa
I so wish strawberry season was here, we do get them now but they are not that good, so i ams till waiting for getting the real sweet ones, this cake looks absloutley divine and so creamy.
I think it looks amazing! I love all the filling starting to ooze out of the side slightly. Yum! And easy to. I don’t have strawberies, but I might make this with blackerrries instead 🙂
Nice recipe – great flavours!!
U ve beautifully adapted, love cream and berry!
Nice and refreshing for summer 🙂
You made me drool all over my keyboard!
This looks awesome. I love the sponginess your cake has.
I cant wait to chill, want to dig right into it.
Looks beautiful and would have loved to have a slice of it. Your photo of the slice of cake is awesome.
That looks DELICIOUS!
Love to have atleast one slice please!!! pics looks great
Wow, this cake look so refreshing lime and strawberries…love the color of the cake 🙂
Such a lovely cake! I would so love a slice!
What a pretty cake! And scrumptious too with the brightness of the lime and the sweet strawberry cream.
I was seriously salivating reading this post and looking at the photos
Strawberries and lime flavor plus cream! Heaven!
How pretty does this cake look! I can imagine that with strawberries and lime how fresh and cooling this would be. It looks so moist and absolutely delicious. Perfect spring dessert.
What a beautiful entry, Soma- thank you so much for participating in my event! Yes, I completely agree that it “definitely breathes spring” and is such a feast for the eyes.
Will remember this delicious combination for when I need to make a layer cake.
Mmmm, Just beautiful! I would be the one just licking all that strawberry creamy goodness. This is one of those cakes that would grace a beautiful, sophisticated garden party! Yum!
Hi Soma…
Amazing receipe!Thanks a lot.Lemme share my variations.
I added 6 tblspn maple syrup & 6 tblspn sugar and folded in few blackberries in the batter.
In the cream topping i infused 1/2 tspn cinnamon and some coconut shavings.
Viola!
Keep up the good work!
Tanvi
Looks so pretty and bookmarking to my ever growing to-do list. Thanks for the step by step pictures, this helps in novices like me.
omg,..i am droolin here,. cake looks so pretty
I can understand why you were impatient, looks so good!
Fabulous cake, just looking at it is tempting me to try it 🙂
Soma, I have been a silent admirer of your blog for sometime now..superb blog! I love baking and this one is simply a piece of art! Keep up the good work!
Love the flavors in the cake, looks gorgeous 🙂
One word – WOW! That goes straight into the ‘must try’ folder on my computer!
I’d have to say.. strawberries are amazing. Nice stuff! 🙂
I’d like to know how many ml is a cup, i’m trying to bake this cake but don’t quite get the exact amount of the milk for the batter?
Thanks for your help in advance!
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