West African Lime Cake Recipe

Chabear01's Note:

Posted for ZWT II - Africa/Middle East, as taken from Epicurean.com. This is such an easy cake that even the kids can make it with some adult supervision.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 12.0 squares

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 ½ tablespoons butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 lime, juice of
• 1 ½ cups flour
• 2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
• chopped peanuts (optional)

Directions:

1. Cream the sugar and butter, add the well beaten eggs and the lime juice, then the flour and baking powder.
2. Pour into greased and flured 8" square cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until straw stuck into cneter comes out clean. Sprinkle chopped peanuts on top for garnish if you like.

Reviews

[Chef 313014]

Good, but I found it a little sweet and I couldn't taste the lime very much.

[kelroy207]

This was a good cake, but not great. I found it dry and also dense not in a good way. I like one reviewers idea of subbing vanilla yogurt, will try that next time. I will make it again, but with some variations.