Lime Rickey Cake

I've mentioned my lemon obsession...my lime obsession goes hand in hand.

Lime Rickey Cake
From King Arthur Flour

Cake:
1 cup butter, room temp
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, room temp
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour
1 cup milk, room temp
1-2 tablespoons finely grated rind of limes, or 1/2 tsp lime oil (get this at specialty baking stores)

Glaze:
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
2/3 cup sugar, superfine preferred

Preheat the oven to 350. Lightly grease a 9x13 pan.

Place, sugar, salt, baking powder, and flour in the bowl of a mixer. Turn on mixer for just a few seconds to combine. Add butter, and run mixer until mixture resembles moist crumbs. In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, and lime rind. (One of the secrets to a fluffy cake is to have all of your liquids at room temperature, so let the milk and eggs sit out for an hour or so before assembling your cake.) Add all but 1/2 cup of the milk/eggs to the flour mixture and run mixer for 90 seconds, scraping once. Add the remaining liquid and run mixer for an additional minute, scraping once.

Spoon batter into prepared pan, smoothing top with a spatula.

Bake the cake for 25-33 minutes, or until the top is starting to brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

While cake is baking, whisk together lime juice and sugar for the glaze. When you remove the cake from the oven, set it to cool on a rack. Use a skewer or fork to poke the top all over. Don't poke all the way to the bottom of the pan- just about halfway down.

Brush the glaze onto the hot cake; be generous. Let it sink in for about 5 minutes, then brush on more glaze, continuing until all the glaze is used up.

Let cool and serve with raspberries, strawberries, whipped cream, or vanilla ice cream.

Does this sound delicious but you are feeling lazy? Try this: Make a white cake mix but substitute margarita mix for the water in the recipe. Follow the recipe on the box, and then make the glaze with the same ratio of margarita mix to sugar and glaze your cake the same way this recipe indicates. My gym partner swear this is delicious.