Beat the summer heat with this delicious refrigerator Key Lime Coconut Sheet Cake!
There is nothing like a nice cold refrigerator cake in the middle of summer heat. This Key Lime Coconut Sheet Cake features some of my favorite flavors in an ultra moist cake with a light tasting homemade whipped cream topping to bring it all together. Are you looking for a showstopper to take to a get together? This is it! You will be the hit of the party for this one! The fact that it is easy to make and uses easy to find ingredients makes it even better.
Servings: 4
Calories: 715kcal
Ingredients
- 1 15.25-ounce box yellow cake mix (I used Betty Crocker)
- 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 13.5-ounce can coconut milk, divided
- 10 tablespoons bottled Key lime juice divided
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 ⁄4 cup confectioners’ sugar
- Lime zest and sweetened flaked coconut, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Spray the bottom only of a 13x9-inch baking dish with nonstick baking spray with flour.
- Prepare and bake cake mix in prepared dish according to package directions. Let cake cool for 5 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, stir together condensed milk, 1 cup coconut milk, and 6 tablespoons lime juice until blended.
- Using the handle of a wooden spoon, poke holes in warm cake, making sure handle does not touch bottom of pan. Pour coconut mixture over warm cake. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, approximately 4 hours.
- In a large chilled bowl, combine cream, confectioners’ sugar, remaining coconut milk, and remaining 4 tablespoons lime juice. Beat at high speed with an electric mixer and chilled beaters just until thickened; spread over cake. Top with lime zest and coconut, if desired. Store, covered, in refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 715kcal
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YUM! I bought a bag of Key limes today and a watermelon. Now, I have this and the watermelenade recipe to try out. Thanks for the great story! Huntsville is a great place for teen drivers and as parent of a son who is 27 and now a new parent, my message is : new driver is only one rite of passage from here on out and being a grandparent is the best job ever!
This sounds delicious! I will have to make it for my company coming to visit in a few days.
Thanks.
Made this over the weekend and it was AWE-some!!! A huge hit! A wonderful summer dessert. I’m cooking my way through the magazine and my boys are loving it!!!
Oh and BTW, the pork chops with Vidalia onion gravy (drool!), mashed cauliflower, broccoli salad, cornbread topped BBQ chicken pot pie, peach/blackberry buttermilk pie, and stovetop mac & cheese are all soooo good! (Told ya I’ve been busy!) God bless Christy!
Christy – forgive my ignorance, but I don’t know how (where) to find “Like” on your new FB group (invite) page, in order to let you know I read/agree to the rules.
Lynne (“Louise Pfeifer Killingbeck”)
No worries, long as you’re there and you want to be there, that is all I need 🙂 Welcome and thank you!
cream of coconut, the sweet kind , like sweetened condense milk ? Or, just regular coconut milk ?
Coconut milk, the runny not too sweet stuff 🙂 Sorry, I responded earlier with the wrong information thinking I was commenting on another recipe!
OK, I’m confused…coconut milk is nothing like the Coco Lopez Crème of Coconut used to make cocktails. Coconut milk is thin like milk, Coco Lopez is thicker than sweetened condensed milk. Which one do you use in this cake? It sounds delicious but I don’t want to use the wrong ingredient!!!
That’s my fault entirely, I have edited my comment. Earlier, I thought I was commenting on another recipe. So sorry and thanks for catching it!
This sounds so good. I can’t wait to make it.
I hope you get the chance to make it soon Stacey!!
Made it and it was so good!! My 94 year old mother thought it was good even though it wasn’t chocolate! Had my grocer run around the store– which is being remodeled– for about 15 minutes looking for coconut milk, but it was surely worth the wait– should have taken him a piece.
Thanks so much!
I am so glad you liked it Connie!!!