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How to Make Homemade Tres Leches Cake

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Marian Fleming

Tres Leches Cake
Tres Leches Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Tres Leches Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tres Leches Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Combine the whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk together. Pour over the top of the cooled cake. Spread over the top of cake. A classic and easy Tres Leches Cake goes far beyond your average cake recipe.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
  1. Take Cake
  2. Take 6 3/4 oz cake flour
  3. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
  4. Get 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  5. Get 4 oz unsalted butter, room temperature
  6. Get 8 oz sugar
  7. Take 5 whole eggs
  8. Take 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Take Glaze
  10. Take 1 can (12-oz.) evaporated milk
  11. Make ready 1 can (14-oz.) sweetened condensed milk
  12. Prepare 1 cup half-and-half
  13. Get Topping
  14. Make ready 2 cup heavy cream
  15. Prepare 4 oz sugar
  16. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Pour egg yolk mixture over the flour mixture and stir very gently until combined. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Loosen edge of cake with knife before removing side of pan.

Steps to make Tres Leches Cake:
  1. FOR THE CAKE: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly oil and flour a 13x9-inch metal pan and set aside.
  2. Whisk together the cake flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl and set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter until fluffy. Continue mixing while gradually adding sugar over 1 minute.
  4. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and mix to thoroughly combine.
  5. Add the vanilla extract and mix to combine.
  6. Add the flour mixture to the batter in 3 batches and mix just until combined.
  7. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and spread evenly. This will appear to be a very small amount of batter. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until the cake is lightly golden and reaches an internal temperature of 200°F.
  8. Remove the cake pan to a cooling rack and allow to cool for 30 minutes. Poke the top of the cake all over with a skewer or fork. Allow the cake to cool completely and then prepare the glaze.
  9. FOR THE GLAZE: Whisk together the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and the half-and-half in a 1-quart measuring cup. Once combined, pour the glaze over the cake. Refrigerate the cake overnight.
  10. FOR THE TOPPING: Place the heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl and whisk together on low until stiff peaks are formed. Then whisk faster until thick. Spread the topping over the cake and allow to chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Loosen edge of cake with knife before removing side of pan. Cool cake completely on a wire rack. Place cooled cake on a deep serving plate. Use a two-pronged meat fork or a cake tester to pierce the surface of cake.

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