Tres Leches Cake | 3 milk cake

 Tres Leches Cake is a rich and flavorful cake made with 3 milk. This Mexican cake is a party-winner cake. Super moist and addictive.

Tres LEches cake – Divine is the word. One of the best cakes I ever had. Thanks to my co- sis for introducing me to such a delicious cake.  Tres Leches is a Mexican cake prepared with three different milk(condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream).

Well, Tres Leches Cake was told by my co-sis. We visited their home, and she ordered this cake for us from Safeway. That night hubby and I skipped dinner and had this cake instead 😉

After our vacation, I searched for this recipe in many blogs and altered the recipe to suit our tastes. Baked this cake for Hubby’s birthday. Referred Pioneer women’s recipe

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Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches cake is rich and flavourful cake made with 3 milk. This mexican cake is a party winner cake. Super moist and addictive.

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Course: Cake

Cuisine: Mexican

Prep Time: 45 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes

Author: Vidya Srinivasan

Ingredients

• Dry ingredients:
• All-purpose Flour – 1 cup
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp + 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Wet Ingredients:
• Eggs – 5 whole
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Vanilla- 1 tsp
• Milk - 1/3 cup
• Evaporated Milk - 1 can
• Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 can
• Heavy Cream - 1/4 cup
• FOR THE ICING:
• Heavy Cream For Whipping - 1 pint
• Sugar - 3 Tablespoons

Instructions

• Add the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl and whisk well
• Separate 5 eggs - put all the Yolk in one bowl and whites in the other
• Add 1/2 cup sugar to the egg yolk and beat well with a mixer, in high speed. Beat till it becomes pale yellow and double its quantity approximately. It took around 5 min for me. Add milk and vanilla extract to the pale yellow mixture
• Gently add the flour to this mixture. Set the electric mixer in low speed and whisk well
• In a separate bowl, beat the whites at high speed till they become like a soft foam. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar and keep it aside
• Gently mix this to flour - yolk batter with the mixer in the lowest setting
• Pour the batter into the greased cake pan and bake it at 350 f for 30-35 min, till the cake is baked (a toothpick inserted inside should come out clean). Let it cool
• Add condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream in a jar and whisk well.
• After the cake is cooled completely, poke it gently using a fork all over and pour the milk mixture gently everywhere including the sides in batches (say about 1/4 cup at a time, let it absorb well, and then add another 1/4 cup)
• Cover it with cling wrap and set it aside to absorb. I kept it overnight.
• Frosting - Nextday adds heavy whipping cream to a bowl. Whisk well with the electric mixer at high speed till the cream becomes soft. Continuously mix for speeding up the process. Add sugar and mix well
• Apply the frosting all over the cake and delicious tres leches cake is ready to taste. I topped it with some fresh strawberries

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• Add the dry ingredients to a mixing bowl and whisk well
• Separate 5 eggs – put all the Yolk in one bowl and whites in the other
• Add 1/2 cup sugar to the egg yolk and beat well with a mixer, in high speed. Beat till it becomes pale yellow and double its quantity approximately. It took around 5 min for me. Add milk and vanilla extract to the pale yellow mixture

• Gently add the flour to this mixture. Set the electric mixer in low speed and whisk well

• In a separate bowl, beat the whites at high speed till they become like a soft foam. Add remaining 1/2 cup sugar and keep it aside

• Gently mix this to flour – yolk batter with the mixer in the lowest setting

• Pour the batter into the greased cake pan and bake it at 350 f for 30-35 min, till the cake is baked (a toothpick inserted inside should come out clean). Let it cool

• Add condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream in a jar and whisk well.

• After the cake is cooled completely, poke it gently using a fork all over and pour the milk mixture gently everywhere including the sides in batches (say about 1/4 cup at a time, let it absorb well, and then add another 1/4 cup)

• Cover it with cling wrap and set it aside to absorb. I kept it overnight.

• Frosting – Nextday adds heavy whipping cream to a bowl. Whisk well with the electric mixer at high speed till the cream becomes soft. Continuously mix for speeding up the process. Add sugar and mix well

• Apply the frosting all over the cake and delicious tres leches cake is ready to taste. I topped it with some fresh strawberries