Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
For the tres leches: Combine the heavy cream, evaporated milk and condensed milk in a small pitcher. Pierce the surface of the cake with a fork several times. Drizzle the milk mixture over the top. Tres Leches Cake Recipe - BettyCrocker.com 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.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Make ready Cake Base
- Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Get 5 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/3 cup milk
- Take Cake syrup
- Prepare 12 oz evaporated milk
- Take 14 oz condensed milk
- Make ready Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Prepare Whipped Cream Frosting
- Prepare 1 cup heavy cream
- Get 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Tres Leches Cake is an authentic Mexican cake soaked in three kinds of milk, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon. Sheet Cake desserts are a fun and easy way to make desserts to serve for a crowd and even easier to decorate! Tres leches literally means, "three milks" and tres leches cake is an ultra light sponge cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture.
Instructions to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Preheat oven at 350 F. Grease the pan (Baking pan or upyrex) with butter. Keep 3 mixing bowls ready.
- Separate egg white and yolks.
- Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt to a mixing bowl and keep aside
- 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.
- Add in the flour mixture and beat once at low speed, so that everything gets mixed. Keep aside.
- Clean the beater, whisk and mixing bowl and dry them well. If it is wet, egg whites cannot be beaten into desired consistency.
- 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.
- Add the white mixture on top of yolk mixture and gently fold in until it gets mixed well. Do not mix it vigorously.
- Transfer it to the greased pan or pyrex and bake it in the preheated oven for 20 mins.
- While it’s baking, prepare cake syrup by mixing condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. Keep it refrigerated.
- Also prepare whipped cream frosting by beating heavy cream along with sugar and vanilla extract.
- 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.
- Spread the whipped cream frosting on top of the cake. Decorate with strawberries
Sheet Cake desserts are a fun and easy way to make desserts to serve for a crowd and even easier to decorate! Tres leches literally means, "three milks" and tres leches cake is an ultra light sponge cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture. Tres leches cake is a popular cake in Mexico and Latin America. It really wouldn't be a Cinco de Mayo celebration this easy cake recipe! The cake is similar to an angel food cake.
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