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

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tres leches (3 milk cake). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Whisk sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and half-and-half in a bowl. Lay the cake into the milk mixture. This cake is made with three layers: Cake, filling, and topping. 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 (3 Milk Cake) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook tres leches (3 milk cake) using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Its smooth, moist texture easily leads to overeating. 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. This is a simple and delightful cake. It's a Spanish dessert of sponge cake soaked in milk bath, unique, one of its kind, very delicious.

Instructions 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!!

This is a simple and delightful cake. It's a Spanish dessert of sponge cake soaked in milk bath, unique, one of its kind, very delicious. It's very easy if you already known my soft cotton sponge cake, just a slight difference in the recipe. When cake is cool, pierce the surface with a fork several times. Remove cake from the oven and with a fork make holes all over the top of the cake.

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