Sweet Lime Cake
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 1/4 cups unrefined, beige coloured sugar, or regular white sugar
- 3 large, organic eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 sweet lime or musumbi, zest and juice
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Butter a glass loaf pan, about 900 millilitre size, and fit a small piece of parchment paper inside so that it comes up over the sides of all four glass walls.
- Now's the time for the stand mixer or hefty arm. Smush your butter and sugar together for about 3 minutes till it's light yellow in colour.
- While mixing, add one egg at a time until all three are in your batter. Continue mixing until this gets fluffier and shinier.
- Stop the mixer. In a separate bowl, whisk together your flour, baking powder, and the teaspoon of salt.
- Grate the zest of the sweet lime zest right into the flour mixture.
- With the mixer running, pour in the dry ingredients. Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is incorporated.
- Cut your zested sweet lime in half. If you can see any seeds, take them out. Squeeze the sweet lime juice right into the batter in your mixing bowl.
- Pour the buttermilk over this and keep mixing.
- If your batter looks dry in any way, you can add a little more lime juice or buttermilk.
- Pour your batter into your parchment papered glass loaf dish.
- Put the sweet lime cake into the oven and bake it for an hour.
- You can eat this cake as is or sliced into sandwiches as Tessa Kiros does, with a filling of whipped cream and raspberries. It does get moister day by day and lasts a week at room temperature!
butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder, flour, kosher salt, sweet lime, buttermilk
Taken from food52.com/recipes/15864-sweet-lime-cake (may not work)