Tres Leches Cake.
You can cook Tres Leches Cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Tres Leches Cake
- You need 1 3/4 cups of All purpose flour -.
- You need 1/2 cups of Butter – room temperature.
- You need 1 tbsp of Baking powder -.
- You need 1/4 tsps of salt -.
- It’s 5 of eggs large -.
- You need 3/4 cup of white sugar -.
- It’s 3/4 cup of milk -.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract -.
- It’s 1/4 cup of Milk – milk.
- You need 1 can of milk Evaporated -.
- You need 1 can of condense milk Sweetened -.
- You need 2 cups of Whipping cream -.
- Prepare 1/3 cups of Sugar -.
Tres Leches Cake step by step
- Pre-heat oven at 350 F(180 degree C).
- Separate egg white and yolk and set that aside.
- Mix baking powder, salt and flour and set that aside..
- Beat egg white until it foams. Slowly add sugar and beat again at high speed until it start thicken – 4 to 5 minutes approximately. Without stopping add egg yolks one by one and beat again for another 4 – 5 minutes until it mix well..
- Mix flour, milk alternately until whole flour mixture is completely mixed without lumps..
- Bake this in a greased cake pan (9X13) for about 25-30 minutes until the tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Baking time varies according to your oven temperature. Let this cake cooled in a wire rack..
- Once the cake has cooled completely poke it with a fork (like poke cakes) and set that aside..
- In a cup mix together evaporated milk, milk and condensed milk. Mix it very well using a whisk or fork (make sure it is mixed very well). Set that aside..
- Make whipping cream with heavy cream and sugar. (you can add vanilla essence to this if you like. I don't like to add because my vanilla is dark in color and so it spoil the icing. I like my icing pure white.) Beat cream and sugar until soft peak form. (The ideal consistency is when you lift your whisk soft peak forms. If you beat more then it start thicken and very difficult to spread. (If you beat even more then it turn into butter) If you stop beating before soft peak appear, then it is di….
- Pour half of the milk mixture to the first half of the cake and let it stand for couple of minutes until the milk is absorbed completely. Then pour the remaining milk mixture on top of the cake and let it absorb(it may take a while. So keep the cake in the refrigerator for around 20 minutes). Once the cake absorb the milk cover the top and sides with cream and decorate..
- Refrigerate the cake atleast for 3-4 hours before serving. This enhance the taste..
