Keylimemockarita Recipes

KEY LIME MARGARITAS

Steps:

• Fill shaker with ice and add all ingredients. Shake vigorously to mix.
• Rim glass with salt, fill with ice and add contents of shaker.
• Serve immediately.

KEY LIME MARGARITA PIE

Steps:

• Combine pretzel crumbs, sugar and butter; press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Whisk next 3 ingredients in large bowl until blended. Stir in 2-1/2 cups COOL WHIP; pour into crust.
• Freeze 6 hours or until firm. Let stand at room temperature 15 min. before serving to soften slightly. Top with remaining COOL WHIP.

KEY LIME MARTINI

Steps:

• Put enough ice cubes into a cocktail shaker to be about 3/4 full. Pour vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, and half-and-half over the ice cubes, shake, and strain into a martini glass.

KEY LIME MOCKARITA

Steps:

• Combine margarita mix, citrus soda and a dash of key lime juice in a drink shaker with ice, and shake well.
• Moisten glasses with lime juice and then dip into a plate of kosher salt.
• Add ice to each glass and top off with the Mockarita mixture.
• Garnish with a lime slice if desired.

KEY LIME MARTINI

Steps:

• Combine the vodka, key lime juice, cream of coconut and simple syrup in a shaker tin.
• Add ice and shake for 45 seconds. Double strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a lime slice if desired.

KEY LIME CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, add oil, eggs, whole milk, lime zest, and lime juice. Cream for 2 minutes.
• In a large bowl, add sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir into egg mixture and fold.
• Spray two 9-inch or three 8-inch cake pans with nonstick cooking spray. Place batter into baking pans. If using three 8-inch pans, bake for 20-26 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. If using two 9-inch pans, bake for 30-36 minutes. Cool.

KEY LIME CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare the Curd: Place egg yolks in a small heatproof bowl. Bring sugar and lime juice to a boil in a heavy nonaluminum 3 1/2-quart saucepan over medium-high. Remove from heat. Gradually whisk about one fourth of the hot juice mixture into egg yolks. Add egg yolk mixture to remaining hot juice mixture in saucepan, whisking constantly until well combined. Cook mixture over medium, whisking constantly, until thickened to pudding-like consistency, 6 to 8 minutes. Add butter cubes in 6 additions, whisking constantly after each addition until butter melts and mixture is well combined. Remove from heat. Pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl. Place plastic wrap directly on surface of mixture to prevent a film from forming. Chill at least 3 hours or up to 24 hours.
• While Curd chills, prepare the Cake Layers: Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease (with shortening) and flour 3 (8-inch) round cake pans; set aside. Beat sugar and butter with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium speed until fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Gradually add egg whites, one third at a time, beating well on low speed after each addition. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with water, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating on low speed until just incorporated. Stir in lime zest and vanilla. (Batter will appear broken.) Pour batter evenly into prepared cake pans. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in centers of cakes comes out clean, 18 to 21 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto wire racks, and let cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Prepare the Frosting: Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Gradually add powdered sugar, lime juice, vanilla, and salt, beating until smooth, about 2 minutes. Increase speed to medium-high; beat until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Spoon Frosting into a large piping bag with a tip cut off (about 1/2 inch).
• Assemble the Cake: Place 1 Cake Layer on a serving plate or a cake stand. Pipe Frosting in a ring (about 1/4-inch high) around top outer edge of layer. Spread one third of the Curd (about 1/2 cup) inside Frosting ring. Top with second Cake Layer; repeat Frosting piping and Curd spreading. Top with third Cake Layer; repeat Frosting piping and Curd spreading. Spread remaining Frosting around sides of cake, reserving about 1/2 cup in piping bag. Pipe reserved Frosting into a ring of 1/2-inch dots around top of cake. Garnish cake with lime zest.