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. How to make THE BEST Tres Leches Cake Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake)

You can cook Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake) using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake)
  1. It’s of 🌻CAKE Base : 1 cup all-purpose flour.
  2. Prepare of & 1/2 tsp baking powder.
  3. Prepare of salt.
  4. It’s of eggs (large).
  5. It’s of sugar divided into.
  6. Prepare of and 1/4 cups.
  7. Prepare of vanilla extract.
  8. It’s of whole milk.
  9. It’s of 🌻SYRUP : 12 oz evaporated milk (1.44 cup) 9.
  10. You need of sweetened condensed milk (2/3 of a 14 oz can).
  11. You need of heavy whipping cream.
  12. Prepare of 🌻FROSTING : 2 cups heavy whipping cream.
  13. Prepare of granulated sugar.
  14. It’s of berries to garnish, optional.
  15. You need 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. A traditional three milk cake, known as tres leches – a sweet treat for special occasions. There's a good reason this Tres Leches Recipe (Three-Milk Cake) is impossible to resist and so very popular.

Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake) step by step

  1. 🌻For Cake Base : Preheat the oven to 350 °F / 170°C and butter a 9x13 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..

  2. 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..

  3. 🌻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..

  4. 🌻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 !.

There are many theories on the origin of tres leches cake; whatever it might be the fact is that it has become part of our vernacular cuisine and one of everybody's favorites. Tres Leches Cake ~ Pastel de tres leches, or three-milk cake, is a signature cake in many Latin American countries. The origins of this cake are not certain. Some claim it originated in Nicaragua while others claim it was in Mexico, but what is certain about this cake is its popularity. Sweetened condensed milk, whole milk and whipping cream are the traditional "three milks" that are mixed together and poured into "poke" holes, saturating this tres leches cake recipe and transforming it from an everyday sheet cake into a moist, flavorful and deeply rich dessert.