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This cake is made with three layers: Cake, filling, and topping. This is an excellent cake for milk lovers! 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. Each version is slightly different, especially their textures and sweetness levels.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook three_milk_cake (tres leches cake) using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake):
- Get 🌻CAKE Base : 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 5 eggs (large)
- Make ready 1 cup sugar divided into
- Make ready 3/4 and 1/4 cups
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1/3 cup whole milk
- Make ready 🌻SYRUP : 12 oz evaporated milk (1.44 cup) 9
- Get oz sweetened condensed milk (2/3 of a 14 oz can)
- Make ready 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- Get 🌻FROSTING : 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- Prepare 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 cup berries to garnish, optional
- Prepare leaves Mint
Tres leches cake gets its name because after making a soft, tender cake you poke holes in it before pouring over a mixture of three milks - sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream. The cake is ridiculously moist, beautifully sweet, perfectly tender, and melts in your mouth. Tres Leches Cake translated literally means " three milks " because the cake itself is soaked with three types of milk: Condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy whipping cream (some people prefer to use whole milk here, coconut milk or even half and half). Tres Leches Cake Video Lindsay Strand shows you how to make this luscious dessert.
Steps to make Three_Milk_Cake (Tres leches Cake):
- 🌻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.
- 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.
- 🌻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.
- 🌻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 !
Tres Leches Cake translated literally means " three milks " because the cake itself is soaked with three types of milk: Condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy whipping cream (some people prefer to use whole milk here, coconut milk or even half and half). Tres Leches Cake Video Lindsay Strand shows you how to make this luscious dessert. It's named "tres leches" – "three milks" – because it's soaked in three different types of milk. Read the full recipe after the video. How to make Tres Leches Cake: Make Tres leches cake by combining flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
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