Tres Leches Cake
Tres Leches Cake

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Pierce the surface of the cake with a fork several times.

Tres Leches Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Tres Leches Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
  1. Make ready Cake Base
  2. Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour
  3. Take 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  4. Get Pinch salt
  5. Take 5 eggs
  6. Take 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
  7. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  8. Make ready 1/3 cup milk
  9. Prepare Cake syrup
  10. Prepare 12 oz evaporated milk
  11. Make ready 14 oz condensed milk
  12. Make ready Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
  13. Prepare Whipped Cream Frosting
  14. Make ready 1 cup heavy cream
  15. Make ready 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
  16. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract

Sheet Cake desserts are a fun and easy way to make desserts to serve for a crowd and even easier to decorate! In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, I decided to share my authentic tres leches cake recipe!

Steps to make Tres Leches Cake:
  1. Preheat oven at 350 F. Grease the pan (Baking pan or upyrex) with butter. Keep 3 mixing bowls ready.
  2. Separate egg white and yolks.
  3. Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt to a mixing bowl and keep aside
  4. Beat egg yolks along with 3/4 cup sugar at high speed using hand mixer until it becomes pale yellow in color. Add in milk and vanilla extract. Beat at low speed until it gets mixed.
  5. Add in the flour mixture and beat once at low speed, so that everything gets mixed. Keep aside.
  6. Clean the beater, whisk and mixing bowl and dry them well. If it is wet, egg whites cannot be beaten into desired consistency.
  7. Beat egg whites on high speed until you get foam consistency. Add in 1/4 cup sugar little at a time and continue to beat at high speed until you get a stiff peak.
  8. Add the white mixture on top of yolk mixture and gently fold in until it gets mixed well. Do not mix it vigorously.
  9. Transfer it to the greased pan or pyrex and bake it in the preheated oven for 20 mins.
  10. While it’s baking, prepare cake syrup by mixing condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. Keep it refrigerated.
  11. Also prepare whipped cream frosting by beating heavy cream along with sugar and vanilla extract.
  12. Once the cake is ready cool it and invert it. Make holes all over the cake using a fork. Slowly pour the syrup and wait for 30 mins or until the cake absorbs the syrup.
  13. Spread the whipped cream frosting on top of the cake. Decorate with strawberries

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, I decided to share my authentic tres leches cake recipe! This Mexican dessert is a fluffy vanilla cake filled with condensed milk and topped with a homemade vanilla whipped cream frosting. Served with sliced fruit, this tres leches will impress everyone! Tres leches literally means, "three milks" and tres leches cake is an ultra light sponge cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture.

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