Tres Leches & Cream Cake

"My sister's favourite cake. This one only took three tries to get everything right, but WOW. A new family favourite that made a splash with its 2007 Christmas dessert table debut. (Note: This is NOT a traditional recipe, this MY interpretation of a traditional recipe. Therefore, this recipe DOES NOT and WILL NOT ever correctly include "goats milk" because I don't like it, and I don't cook with it.)"
 
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Ready In:
2hrs
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Make cakes a few hours ahead, cream sugar and yolks together until light yellow.
  • Add flour and baking powder, stir to combine.
  • Add 8 tablespoons water. Stir.
  • Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, fold into batter.
  • Pour into two 10-inch, greased spring-form pans.
  • Bake at 325°F, until browned on top, about 35 minutes. Do NOT under bake.
  • Allow to cool, remove from pans.
  • Whisk together condensed, evaporated, and whole milk, with vanilla.
  • Put one cake on serving platter, poke holes with fork.
  • Pour 1/2 the milk mixture, slowly, over cake, until absorbed.
  • Dissolve the gelatin in the 2 tablespoons of cold water.
  • Whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form.
  • Microwave gelatin for 7-10 seconds, until warm and fluid.
  • Add to cream, whipping constantly, until stiff peaks form.
  • Frost the soaked cake layer with whipped cream.
  • Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
  • Place the second layer on top of the frosted layer.
  • Pierce with fork, gently pour remaining milk mixture over cake, slowly, until absorbed.
  • Frost cakes with remaining whipped cream.
  • Garnish with cherries.
  • Refrigerate overnight, serve cold.

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Reviews

  1. I've tried the recipe myself and found it deligthful and easy to make. As anyone can see by the name, it's a three milk cake. Feel free to choose your milk, be it goat, sheep, rat, or sperm whale -(Any mammal will do.) There are so many variations in Latin America that one can hardly dismiss the recipe for the lack of goat's milk. Try it yourself before commenting.*** MY taste buds say Yak! I've been a mammalian all my life and am fluent in several animal calls. You should try Yak Milk. :)
     
  2. Just by reading the ingredients.. it's wrong. Yes, tres leches has 3 milks..but you are forgetting an important milk.. the goat's milk. Addendum to the person that made the comment... I did make this AS DIRECTED by the recipe. It didn't taste right. BEFORE I rated the recipe. For fairness! However, I made it again with the goat's milk it makes a HUGE difference with the richness of the recipe. I lived 6 years throughout Central and Southern America and that was how they made it.. yes tres leches means "3 milks" (I do speak 7 dialects of Spanish) but it was not right for MY tastebuds
     
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