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Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches Cake

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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
  • Prep Time:
    15 Minutes
  • Cook Time:
    PT55M
    40 Minutes
  • Yield:
    9 Servings
Scrumptious, decadent and creamy, enjoy a traditional Latin American sponge cake that lives up to its name, "three milks." Top with your favorite sliced fruits. (We like strawberries.)
Ingredients
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 (14 ounces) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 (12 ounces) can evaporated milk
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 5 eggs
  • 236.59ml sugar
  • 236.59ml all-purpose flour
  • 4.26g baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 (396.89g) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 (340.19g) can evaporated milk
  • 236.59ml half and half

Scrumptious, decadent and creamy, enjoy a traditional Latin American sponge cake that lives up to its name, "three milks." Top with your favorite sliced fruits. (We like strawberries.)

Preparation
STEP 1

Preheat oven to 350°F.

STEP 2

Using a stand or hand mixer, combine eggs and sugar and mix on high 10-15 minutes, until tripled in volume and very pale yellow.

STEP 3

In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

STEP 4

Gently fold flour mixture into egg mixture with a spatula.

STEP 5

Pour mixture into a sprayed 9-inch cake pan and bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

STEP 6

While the cake is in the oven, combine sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and half and half.

STEP 7

Remove cake from oven when fully baked. Let cool for 10 minutes. Poke holes in cake with skewer or toothpick and pour milk mixture over cake. Refrigerate 2-3 hours or overnight.

STEP 8

It is traditional to frost or top this cake with lightly sweetened whipped cream and fresh berries.

Options

For coconut tres leches use coconut milk and coconut condensed and evaporated milks. Use 1 1/2 cups eggnog in place of evaporated milk for eggnog cake; orange or lime zest for citrus cake; add 1 teaspoon cinnamon to flour/baking powder for cinnamon tres leches. For chocolate tres leches, add 2 tablespoons cocoa to dry ingredients, and 6 ounces melted chocolate to the milk mixture.

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