Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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.
Tres Leches Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tres Leches Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Get Cake Base
- Get 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Take 5 eggs
- Prepare 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/3 cup milk
- Make ready Cake syrup
- Take 12 oz evaporated milk
- Get 14 oz condensed milk
- Get Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Make ready Whipped Cream Frosting
- Get 1 cup heavy cream
- Make ready 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the tres leches: Combine the heavy cream, evaporated milk and condensed milk in a small pitcher. Pierce the surface of the cake with a fork several times. Drizzle the milk mixture over the top and. Tres Leches Cake a must try Mexican dessert!
Steps to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Preheat oven at 350 F. Grease the pan (Baking pan or upyrex) with butter. Keep 3 mixing bowls ready.
- Separate egg white and yolks.
- Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt to a mixing bowl and keep aside
- 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.
- Add in the flour mixture and beat once at low speed, so that everything gets mixed. Keep aside.
- Clean the beater, whisk and mixing bowl and dry them well. If it is wet, egg whites cannot be beaten into desired consistency.
- 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.
- Add the white mixture on top of yolk mixture and gently fold in until it gets mixed well. Do not mix it vigorously.
- Transfer it to the greased pan or pyrex and bake it in the preheated oven for 20 mins.
- While it’s baking, prepare cake syrup by mixing condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. Keep it refrigerated.
- Also prepare whipped cream frosting by beating heavy cream along with sugar and vanilla extract.
- 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.
- Spread the whipped cream frosting on top of the cake. Decorate with strawberries
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