key lime cream cheese cake
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Bright refreshing taste.. If you love citrus you'll love this cake. This was a huge success at work, I've taken it a couple of times and everyone wants the recipe once they taste it.
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yield
12 serving(s)
prep time
20 Min
cook time
1 Hr
Ingredients For key lime cream cheese cake
- BASE:
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1 boxvanilla cake mix, reserving 1 cup for topping ( i like french vanilla)
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1/2 cbutter, melted (i use real butter, you only live once!)
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1egg
- FILLING:
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1 pkg(8 oz) cream cheese, softened
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1 can(14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
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3/4 ckey lime juice ( i've used bottled lime juice, but like the key lime better)
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2eggs, beaten
- TOPPING:
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1 creserved cake mix
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1 cchopped pecans, walnuts or combination of both
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3 Tbspbutter, softened
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powdered sugar for garnish
How To Make key lime cream cheese cake
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1Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. In small bowl, reserve 1 cup of the dry cake mix for the topping; set aside.
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2In medium bowl, mix remaining cake mix, 1/2 cup melted butter and 1 egg until well combined. Press in bottom of pan; set aside.
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3In large bowl, beat cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lime juice and 2 eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Pour filling evenly over base in pan.
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4With fork, mix reserved cake mix with pecans and 3 tablespoons softened butter until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over filling.
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5Bake about 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan at least 20 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle individual servings with powdered sugar.
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6(The recipe calls to bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown, I have found in my oven it's closer to 1 hour)
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