Tres leches (milk 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. But I'd never heard of the cake. Ana went on to explain to me what Tres Leches Cake is: a light, airy sponge cake soaked with a mixture of three milks: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream. Tres leches (milk cake)

You can have Tres leches (milk cake) using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tres leches (milk cake)
  1. It’s of For the cake.
  2. Prepare of flour.
  3. You need of eggs.
  4. You need of sugar.
  5. Prepare of oil.
  6. It’s of tblsp baking powder.
  7. You need of tblsp vanilla flavor.
  8. It’s of For the milk.
  9. Prepare of condensed milk.
  10. Prepare of milk(powder).
  11. Prepare of hollandia milk.
  12. Prepare of Vanilla flavor.
  13. Prepare of For the whipped cream.
  14. Prepare of whipped cream powder.
  15. It’s of condensed milk.
  16. You need of Milk powder.
  17. Prepare of Vanilla flavor.

The result is Postre de Tres Leches heaven! Tres Leches Cake translated literally means "three milks" because the cake itself is soaked with three types of milk: Condensed milk, evaporated milk This Tres Leches Cake also happens to be extra light while having all these rich flavors because we are using a sponge cake as the base of the cake. This rich Latin American butter cake gets its moist texture from soaking in milk. Serve it chilled and with whipped cream, melted chocolate, or dulce de leche.

Tres leches (milk cake) step by step

  1. Here is all our ingredients.

  2. Beat the egg,sugar and vanilla flavor until pale and fluffy (high speed).

  3. Add flour,baking powder,oil,vanilla flavor into the mixer mix on low speed, you may fold with rubber spatula,then transfer it to baking pan,preheat oven and baked for 12_15 minute.Allow it to cold completely.

  4. Combine all the ingredients In a blender and blend.

  5. Use fork and press the cake,slowly pour 11/2 cup of milk syrup all over the cake.syrup will soak into cake.wrap cake with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour or overnight.

  6. For the whipped cream.Add the whipped cream powder,milk,condensed milk,vanilla flavor,cold water until thick.

  7. Spoon whipped cream over cake add extra milk to make it creamy then serve and enjoy.

  8. Hmmm😋😋😋enjoy.

Cecilia Velasco, from Mexico City and a former chef at Tres Meridas restaurant in Frisco, Texas, shares her recipe. There's a good reason this Tres Leches Recipe (Three-Milk Cake) is impossible to resist and so very popular. 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. A traditional three milk cake, known as tres leches – a sweet treat for special occasions. As someone who was born and raised in Mexico, I've found that there aren't many differences in how people from other Latin-American countries were raised; our roots, customs, and traditions are very alike.