Individual Tres Leches Cakes with Cognac and Dark Chocolate

Name: Individual Tres Leches Cakes with Cognac and Dark Chocolate
Prep time: 4 h 30 min
Cook time: 4 h 30 min
Total time: 4 h 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters cognac; 113 grams dark chocolate, coarsely chopped; 5 eggs; 340 grams can evaporated milk; 237 milliliters granulated sugar; 8 half-pint mason jars with lids; 8 Bing or maraschino cherries with stems; 3 Tbsps powdered sugar; 397 grams can sweetened condensed milk; 355 milliliters Gold unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 237 milliliters whipping cream; 414 milliliters very cold whipping cream

Individual Tres Leches Cakes with Cognac and Dark Chocolate is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains approximately 16g of protein, 47g of fat, and a total of 844 calories. If you have whipping cream, chocolate, powdered sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350F. Grease 13x9-inch pan with shortening or cooking spray; line bottom of pan with cooking parchment paper.

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Cooking Spray

Shortening

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Baking Paper

Oven

Frying Pan

In large bowl, beat eggs and granulated sugar with electric mixer on medium-high speed at least 10 minutes or until mixture is fluffy and pale yellow and triples in volume. With spatula, gently but quickly incorporate flour, in 3 to 4 additions, into egg mixture.

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Granulated Sugar

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Spatula

Bowl

Pour batter into pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake about 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Poke entire cake with fork; cool in pan on cooling rack. With 2-inch round cutter, cut cake into rounds; reserve scraps.

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Wire Rack

Toothpicks

Oven

Frying Pan

In medium bowl, mix filling ingredients with whisk until well blended.

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Whisk

Bowl

To assemble, place 1 cake round in bottom of each mason jar. Top each with 1/4 cup filling and about 1 tablespoon chopped chocolate. Repeat layers once. Cover jars with lids. Refrigerate at least 3 hours but not longer than 24 hours.

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Chocolate

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Canning Jar

In chilled medium bowl, beat 1 3/4 cups whipping cream, the powdered sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form. Top each cake with whipped cream and 1 cherry.

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Powdered Sugar