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

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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. You can either serve it that way, or transfer it onto a platter like I did.

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

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

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. Indulge in Three Milk Cake, a sumptuous Mexican dessert favorite, with an authentic postre de tres leches recipe from GOYA®. Meanwhile, pour condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream into a bowl.

Steps 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!!

Transfer half of the liquid to a small saucepan. Tres Leches Cake (Three Milks Cake). Serve it chilled and with whipped cream, melted chocolate, or dulce de leche. 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.

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