Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. The BEST authentic homemade Tres Leches Cake.
Tres Leches Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Tres Leches Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
Get Cake Base
Take 1 cup all-purpose flour
Take 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
Prepare Pinch salt
Make ready 5 eggs
Get 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
Take 1/3 cup milk
Get Cake syrup
Get 12 oz evaporated milk
Get 14 oz condensed milk
Prepare Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
Take Whipped Cream Frosting
Prepare 1 cup heavy cream
Get 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
It beats any store-bought version all day long! Tres leches is a moist and subtly sweet cake made with sponge cake and three different kinds of milk. Tres Leches Cake isn't your regular sheet cake. For the tres leches: Combine the heavy cream, evaporated milk and condensed milk in a small pitcher.
Steps 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
Pierce the surface of the cake with a fork several times. For the icing: Whip the cream with the sugar. Spread it evenly over the top and sides of the soaked cake and decorate with maraschino cherries. To assemble, the cake spread the whipped cream over the cake. Refrigerate to chill until ready to serve.
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