Tres Leches Cake
Tres Leches Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

I love Tres Leches cake but this is not the best recipe. The eggs need to be separated, and the whites beaten prior to adding them to the batter. I have done it both ways, and despite the extra work, separating the eggs is well worth the effort.

Tres Leches Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Tres Leches Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Take Cake Base
  2. Take 1 cup all-purpose flour
  3. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  4. Get Pinch salt
  5. Get 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. Take Cake syrup
  10. Get 12 oz evaporated milk
  11. Prepare 14 oz condensed milk
  12. Make ready Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
  13. Make ready Whipped Cream Frosting
  14. Get 1 cup heavy cream
  15. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
  16. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract

Put the egg whites in a large bowl with a pinch of salt. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Tres Leches cake features three different dairy products that come together to create a cake that's moist, but not mushy, and dense with just the right amount of sweetness. This indulgent cake traces its origins back to South America, but you don't need to fly across the equator to try a piece.

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

Whisk together the cake flour, baking powder and salt in a medium mixing bowl and set aside. Tres Leches Cake Recipe To celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, let's make a cake, one that's associated with birthday parties, graduations, baptisms, and all kind of celebrations. A tres leches cake (translation: three milks cake) (Spanish: pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches) is a sponge cake—in some recipes, a butter cake—soaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream. When butter is not used, the tres leches cake is very light with many air bubbles. This distinct texture is why it does not have.

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