This cake. Oh my word!
This cake is beyond fantastic. You are going to want to make this cake!
Not only is this possibly the prettiest cake I’ve ever made (I’m not known for making pretty food), but it’s also one of the best tasting. Maybe the very best.
I was inspired to create the recipe because of one of the donuts we served at Meredith’s wedding. The Cherry Limeade donuts were my favorite of all of them. They were cherry cake donuts with a limeade frosting that had the perfect amount of tang and sweet.
I knew I would use the Maraschino Cherry Cake recipe I made a few years ago. It’s got such a pretty color and definite cherry flavor that isn’t overwhelming.
But I was a little stumped as to the frosting. My first thought was to buy limeade mix. You know, like lemonade mix only limeade flavor. I was thinking of doing something like I did with the Strawberry Lemonade Cookies. The problem was, they don’t sell limeade dry mix.
Thankfully, I talked to my mom before I started the frosting and she reminded me that there’s a frozen limeade concentrate. She suggested using that. I probably could have used straight up lime juice instead, but I was stuck on the idea of limeade. And the frozen concentrate gave me exactly what I wanted – a sweet, tart, definite lime flavor that complemented the cherry cake perfectly.
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