Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake)
Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake)

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Vanilla sponge cake gets a drenching in a sweet combination of three kinds of milk and then frosted with cream cheese icing in a Mexican-inspired recipe. You can either serve it that way, or transfer it onto a platter like I did. A tres leches cake (translation: three milks cake) (Spanish: pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches) is a sponge cake—in some recipes.

Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook tres leches (3 milk cake) using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake):
  1. Get Cake Mixture:
  2. Make ready 1 cup all-purpose flour
  3. Get 1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
  4. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 5 large Eggs, seperated
  6. Take 1 cup white sugar
  7. Get 1/3 cup whole milk
  8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Prepare Tres Leche Mixture:
  10. Make ready 1/2 cup heavy cream
  11. Get 1 can evaporated milk
  12. Get 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  13. Make ready 1 tsp orange extract
  14. Get Whipped Cream Topping:
  15. Prepare 1 pints whipping cream
  16. Make ready 3 tbsp white sugar
  17. Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  18. Make ready Maraschino cherries for garnish

Transfer half of the liquid to a small saucepan. Tres Leches Cake (Three Milks Cake). Serve it chilled and with whipped cream, melted chocolate, or dulce de leche. Cecilia Velasco, from Mexico City and a former chef at Tres Meridas restaurant in Frisco, Texas, shares her recipe.

Steps to make Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake):
  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9×13 inch cake pan. Set aside.
  2. Sift all dry ingredients, EXCEPT for the white sugar and set bowl aside.
  3. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks with 3/4 cup of sugar on high till pale yellow and almost doubled in volume. Stir in the milk and vanilla extract. Pour wet mixture over dry mixture and stir ever so gently until well combined.
  4. Beat the egg whites on high until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and beat until the egg whites are stiff, but not dry.
  5. Fold the egg white mixture into the batter very gently until well combined. Pour the batter into the 9×13 pan. Smooth out the batter with an offset spatula.
  6. Bake the cake until done, about 30-35 minutes. Remove cake from oven and let cool in pan for about 15 minutes. Turn over onto a rimmed platter. Pierce holes all over the cake with a fork. Be careful not to break the cake while doing this.
  7. LECHE MIXTURE: Add all ingredients into a bowl and whisk until well combined. About 5-7 minutes.
  8. Pour the leche mixture all over the cake slowly. Being sure that the whole cake gets soaked up with the liquid. Place cake in refrigerator to allow cooling for about 20 minutes while you work on making the whipped topping.
  9. WHIPPED ICING: In a stand mixture pour the pint of whipping cream. Beat on low for 3 minutes. Gradually increase the speed and start adding the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Now add the vanilla extract. Beat the whipped topping until firm. Ice the whole cake and garnish with maraschino cherries if desired. Place cake back into refrigerator for atleast 2 hours to firm up. The colder, the better.
  10. Enjoy!!

There's a good reason this Tres Leches Recipe (Three-Milk Cake) is impossible to resist and so very popular. There are a couple of bakeries in Santo Domingo famous for their tres leches (three-milk cake). Each version is slightly different, especially their textures and sweetness levels. The BEST authentic homemade Tres Leches Cake. An ultra light cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture and topped with fresh whipped cream and cinnamon.

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