Tres Leches Cake Recipe [Three Milk Cake] – Mexican Cake/Tres Leches Cake with step by step photos

This Tres Leches Cake is a special Mexican cake, I did for my girl’s birthday as an exotic treat and also to celebrate my 400^th post. I thank each and every one of you to have encouraged me, supported me and helped me reach to this point. Before going into tres leches recipe, I would love to share a few things about this dense, moist, delectable and fantastic cake. Tres Leches Cake is a sponge cake, soaked in three different kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk and heavy cream. This tres leches cake does not use butter, but it is a very light cake, with lots of air bubbles. It has a unique texture, despite of being soaked in the three milk  mixture, it does not have soggy consistency.

Here's how to make Tres Leches Cake with step by step photos....

Ingredients

All-purpose flour/Maida	1 cup
Baking powder	1 ½ tsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Eggs	5
Sugar	¾ cup + 1 ½ tbsp.
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Milk	1/3 cup

Three Milks

Evaporated Milk	1 can [12 ounce]
Sweetened Condensed Milk	1 can [14 ounce]
Heavy cream or Milk	¼ cup

Preparation time: 40 minutes                             Recipe Course: Main Course

Baking time: 35 to 40 minutes                            Recipe Cuisine: Mexican

Serves: 24 -26
Author: Priya Anandakumar

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Method

Preheat the oven to 180 C/350 F. Spray a 9 by 13 inch pan liberally with non-stick spray or line it with parchment paper.

In a wide bowl, sift together flour and baking powder. Add the salt to the flour and mix well.

Separate the egg whites to one bowl and egg yolks to another bowl.

Beat the egg yolks with ¾ cup sugar on high speed until the yolks are pale yellow.

Add the milk and vanilla essence to the egg yolk mixture.

Now add the flour mixture and stir very gently well combined without any lumps.

Beat the egg whites on high speed unil soft peaks form. Now add 1 ½ tbsp. of sugar and beat until the egg whites are stiff but not dry.

Now fold egg white mixture into the batter very gently until combined.

Pour the mixture into the baking pan and spread it evenly.

Bake it for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool.

Meanwhile combine condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream in a bowl. I have used regular milk instead of heavy cream, but still the cake was rich and delicious.

When cake has cooled, pierce the surface of the cake several times with a fork.

Now slowly pour the combined milk over the top of the cake and reserve about ¼ cup of milk to be used when serving the cake. [You can keep the cake in the baking pan and pour the milk, since it was for birthday, I had to transfer the cake to another deep glass square bowl. This is totally optional.]

Allow the cake to absorb the milk mixture for about 45 minutes. You will not believe the cake will drink all the milk and it is so soft, moist and ready. 

Now spread the whipped cream on top of cream. Since it was a birthday cake, I decorated cake and we enjoyed it.

If not slice out a piece of the cake, spoon out some of the reserved milk, spread some whipped cream and serve the delicious, rich and moist cake.

Suggestions:

• I have not used heavy cream when making the milk mixture, I have replaced it with the regular milk.
• The actual recipe uses about 3 tbsp of sugar in the egg white mixture, but I felt it was really sweet. So I used about 1 ½ tbsp. of sugar when whisking the egg white.

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