Tres Leches Cake

Name: Tres Leches Cake
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: South American, Latin American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 7 larges eggs, separated; 340 grams evaporated milk; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 16 servings Garnish: grated lemon rind; 237 milliliters milk; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 397 grams sweetened condensed milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 177 milliliters whipping cream

Tres Leches Cake is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 355 calories, 9g of protein, and 16g of fat. A mixture of milk, butter, condensed milk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It is a very affordable recipe for fans of South American food. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 50 minutes.

Instructions

Beat egg yolks, butter, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 minutes or until mixture is creamy.

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Egg Yolk

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Add to egg yolk mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.

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Egg Yolk

Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Beat egg whites until stiff; fold gently into batter.

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Egg Whites

Pour batter into a greased and floured 13- x 9-inch pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Oven

Let stand 10 minutes.

Pierce top of cake several times with a small wooden skewer. Stir together condensed milk, evaporated milk, and cream; gradually pour and spread over warm cake. (

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Sweetened Condensed Milk

Spread

Cream

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Skewers

Pour about 1/4 cup at a time, allowing mixture to soak into cake before pouring more.)

Let stand 2 hours; cover and chill overnight, if desired.

Spread top of cake with Fluffy Frosting before serving.

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Frosting

Spread

Garnish, if desired.

Tricks to Perfect Tres Leches: Use tips from Test Kitchens Director Lyda Jones Burnette to make this cake turn out perfectly.

Let the cake cool in the pan 10 minutes after removing it from the oven.

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Frying Pan

* While it's still warm, poke holes in the cake with a wooden pick or skewer.

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Skewers

* Slowly pour the milk mixture over the cake--about 1/4 cup at a time--and smooth it in with a spatula or the back of a large spoon. You want most of the liquid to be absorbed by the cake, which will make it extremely moist.

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Milk

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Spatula