How to Make Award-winning Tres Leches Cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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'll love this light, fluffy tres leches cake SOAKED with a sweet mixture of three milks and topped with a cloud of whipped cream enriched with mascarpone. The BEST authentic homemade Tres Leches Cake.

Tres Leches Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Tres Leches Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Get 1 cup all-purpose flour
3. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
4. Make ready Pinch salt
5. Prepare 5 eggs
6. Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
7. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
8. Get 1/3 cup milk
9. Get Cake syrup
10. Get 12 oz evaporated milk
11. Get 14 oz condensed milk
12. Get Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
13. Get Whipped Cream Frosting
14. Make ready 1 cup heavy cream
15. Get 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
16. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract

Tres leches is comprised of a milk-soaked sponge cake that's topped with whipped cream. Some (like me) prefer a dusting of ground cinnamon on top of their frosted cake; others prefer to garnish theirs. 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.

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

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. Tres leches—or "three milks" in Spanish—is just a very moist cake enriched with two forms of concentrated Try serving this Tres Leches Cake topped with a fresh berry or tropical fruit compote. This Tres Leches Cake is absolute perfection. It's airy, light, decadent and delicious.

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