what is keylime chiffon?

Answer 1

Chiffon--An airy, fluffy mixture, usually a filling for pie. The lightness is achieved with stiffly beaten egg whites and sometimes gelatin.

Here's a recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/169660

Answer 2

A "chiffon" cake is a very light cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and flavorings. Unlike butter, the traditional fat used in cake making, it is difficult to beat air into oil, so "chiffon" cakes, like angel cakes and other foam cakes, achieve a fluffy texture by beating egg whites until stiff, and folding them into the cake batter before baking. The high oil and egg content creates a very moist cake, and as oil is liquid even at cooler temperatures, "chiffon" cakes don't tend to harden or dry out as traditional butter cakes might.

Here's a great example. Do not use regular limes . You must use "key" limes.

Key Lime Cake/chiffon Recipe

8 oz. cake flour sifted
1 oz.sugar
1 Tbs. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
4 oz. veg. oil
6 egg yolks
2 oz. cool water
4 oz.lime juice
1 Tbs. lime juice
1 Tbs.vanilla extract
8 oz. egg whites

Directions:
Sift together the flour, 6 oz.of the sugar,the baking powder and the salt.
In a seperate bowl mix the oil, yolks, water, juice,zest and vanilla. Add the liquid mixture to the dry ingredients.
In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites until foamy. Slowly beat in the remaining 6 oz. of sugar. Contine beating until the whites are stiff but not dry.
Stir in 1/3 of the whites into the batter to lighten it. Fold in the remaining whites.
Pour the batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 325 til toothpick comes out clean. About an hour.
Imediately invert the pan over the neck of a wine bottle.

Allow the cake to hang upside down tl completely cool,then remove from pan.