Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake). This light and fluffy tres leches cake recipe uses four types of milk and is topped with whipped cream, making it extra moist and delicious. This cake is made with three layers: Cake, filling, and topping. You will love this easy and moist tres leches cake recipe.
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Ingredients of Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake)
- It’s of 🌻CAKE Base : 1 cup all-purpose flour.
- Prepare of & 1/2 tsp baking powder.
- Prepare of salt.
- It’s of eggs (large).
- You need of sugar divided into.
- Prepare of and 1/4 cups.
- Prepare of vanilla extract.
- Prepare of whole milk.
- Prepare of 🌻SYRUP : 12 oz evaporated milk (1.44 cup) 9.
- You need of sweetened condensed milk (2/3 of a 14 oz can).
- Prepare of heavy whipping cream.
- Prepare of 🌻FROSTING : 2 cups heavy whipping cream.
- It’s of granulated sugar.
- It’s of berries to garnish, optional.
- Prepare of Mint.
Cecilia Velasco, from Mexico City and a former chef at Tres Meridas restaurant in Frisco, Texas, shares her recipe. We've simplified the recipe by adapting it to a single sheet instead of a layered cake. Tres leches cake is a dense, moist dessert consisting of a sponge cake covered with three types of milk: evaporated, condensed, and whole milk. Although its origins are quite murky, most sources claim it was invented in Nicaragua, but the cake is popular throughout Central America, the United States.
Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake) step by step
- 🌻For Cake Base : Preheat the oven to 350 °F / 170°C and butter a 9×13 casserole pan. Set up three mixing bowls. In a large bowl, sift together 1 cup flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, and 1/4 salt. Separate egg whites and yolks into the other two bowls. Beat egg yolks with 3/4 cup sugar with an electric mixer on high speed, until yolks are a pale yellow. Stir in 1/3 cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla..
- Beat egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. With the mixer on, pour in remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat on high speed until egg whites are stiff but not dry. Pour egg yolk mixture over the flour mixture and combine gently with a spatula. Gently fold in egg white mixture with the spatula until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and spread to even out the surface and bake at 350°F / 170°C for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean..
- 🌻For the Milk Syrup : In a large measuring cup or a bowl combine 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream, 12 oz evaporated milk and 9 oz condensed milk. When the cake is cool, pierce the surface all over with a fork. Slowly drizzle the milk mixture over the cake and set aside 4-5 hours or refrigerate overnight..
- 🌻For Make the Cream Frosting : Pour 2 cups cold heavy whipping cream and 2 Tbsp sugar into a large chilled mixing bowl and beat on high speed 1 1/2 to 2 minutes or until thick, whipped and spreadable. Spread over the cake with a spatula then decorate with berries and mint leaves if desired. Enjoy !.
This three milk cake (Tres Leches) cake is light, moist and delicious. Tres Leches (three milk cake) is originally from Latin America. Regardless of its exact origin, tres leches cake (literally "three milks" cake) is definitely a Hispanic dessert that has been enjoyed for years by folks in most, if not all, Spanish-speaking countries. Tres leches is comprised of a milk-soaked sponge cake that's topped with whipped cream. Tres leches literally means, "three milks" and tres leches cake is an ultra light sponge cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture.