If you love lime desserts, then baking this easy lime cake need to be put on your to do list!
Lime desserts are a favorite of mine. Their sweet and tart combo is truly outstanding and can be used in so many different ways. I’ve been loving the ease of bundt cakes lately so I thought a lime bundt cake was in order.
This semi-homemade cake starts from a mix, so you can whip it up in no time. Lately I’ve been on a lime yogurt kick, so I used the lime yogurt in place of sour cream, which I usually use in my bundt cakes.
Either option works, I just prefer that if you are using a yogurt, go with one that still has some fat in it versus the fat free variety.
The ingredients for this cake are so simple. Start with a white cake mix, but you could also use a yellow cake mix, or even a lemon mix. To that you add your yogurt or sour cream, four eggs, oil and some lime zest and lime juice.
If you don’t have a zester, I adore my Kitchen IQ Better Zester, it makes zesting citrus super easy – totally recommend it. Before this one had some crummy zesters before that were really not that effective and were a pain to use, so I’m pretty appreciative of how easy the Kitchen IQ one is.
We finish up with the glaze that goes on top, which might be my favorite part of this cake! It’s so simple, it’s made with powdered sugar, lime juice, butter, a pinch of salt and a splash of milk. If desired you can garnish with slices of fresh lime and lime peel.
This is super easy. Really you don’t even need to use your mixer, you can just stir it up in a bowl with a whisk. Such a perfect combo of sweet and tart!
If you love this recipe, make sure to try my Easy Key Lime Pie recipe as well!
EASY LIME CAKE RECIPE
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Easy Lime Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 standard size package white or vanilla cake mix
- 1 cup lime yogurt or sour cream not fat free
- 1/2 cup oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon finely grated lime peel
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar add more if you want a thicker glaze
- 3 tbsp melted butter
- 3-4 tbsp lime juice
- 1-2 tbsp milk more or less depending on consistency you want the glaze
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- 1. HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 12-cup bundt pan or 10-inch fluted tube pan with no-stick cooking spray. Dust with flour.
- 2. BEAT cake mix, yogurt or sour cream, oil, eggs, lime juice and lime peel in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 1 minute or until moistened. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
- 3. BAKE 40 to 44 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack to cool completely.
- 4. MIX powdered sugar, melted butter, lime juice, milk and butter with a whisk in a large bowl. Once combined, spoon over bundt cake. If desired garnish with additional lime peel. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Disclaimer
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
MARTHA M MCNEAL says
Have not made yet but my husband and I LOVE anything lime but I have to strictly count carbs due to diabetes not because of that trendy keto diet. Can you give the carb count per portion, please? Calories mean nothing to me. My 4 X day insulin injections are based on # of grams I eat. Per my doctor I cannot restrict my carbs severely because it causes ketoacidosis which can be deadly or harm a kidney, so I am careful to count every gram and inject insulin accordingly. I am used to this 60+ year diet/lifestyle and need things to continue on an even keel!!! Thanks
Christi Johnstone says
Hi Martha, first, I removed your rating of the recipe as your very first sentence indicated you have not actually made it. Second, somehow the nutritional info was not showing up, thanks for letting me know, I have corrected it. That said, there are many online calculators where you can input the ingredients yourself and get all of the nutritional info, which might be helpful for you when you run into a recipe that lacks that information. I’m pretty sure this is neither a carb counting nor keto friendly recipe I’m afraid. There are lots of great websites that specialize in them (I’m a big fan of Carolyn’s work at All Day I Dream About Food) but my recipe does not.
Lisa jones says
Can I bake these in cupcakes
Christi Johnstone says
Sure, you’ll have to adjust the time as they won’t take nearly as long.
Lisa jones says
Can I do these in cupcakes?
Lisa jones says
Hi, can I do these in cupcakes?
Laura says
If I wanted to do the cake from scratch instead of a cake mix, do you happen to have a receipt for it? I do want to try it , it sounds delicious! Thank you
Debra W says
Have you made this recipe in individual pans? Like bread pans?
Christi Johnstone says
Debra, I have not. You certainly could try that though, the bake time will vary.
Phyllis Hastings says
Very good💚💚
Janice Ann Parsons says
This is the easiest and best tasting cake ever! My family loves it!
Felicia Majors says
Delicious
Ellie says
Question: do you think this would work with a gluten free cake mix? Thanks!
Christi Johnstone says
I don’t know, I don’t do any gluten free baking so I can’t speak from experience.