Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tres leches (3 milk cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

This light and fluffy tres leches cake recipe uses four types of milk and is topped with whipped cream, making it extra moist and delicious. This cake is made with three layers: Cake, filling, and topping. You can either serve it that way, or transfer it onto a platter like I did.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tres leches (3 milk cake) using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake):

1. Get Cake Mixture:
2. Prepare 1 cup all-purpose flour
3. Get 1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
4. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
5. Prepare 5 large Eggs, seperated
6. Prepare 1 cup white sugar
7. Prepare 1/3 cup whole milk
8. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
9. Take Tres Leche Mixture:
10. Take 1/2 cup heavy cream
11. Get 1 can evaporated milk
12. Take 1 can sweetened condensed milk
13. Get 1 tsp orange extract
14. Take Whipped Cream Topping:
15. Take 1 pints whipping cream
16. Get 3 tbsp white sugar
17. Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
18. Get Maraschino cherries for garnish

You poke holes into the cake before pouring over the. A traditional three milk cake, known as tres leches – a sweet treat for special occasions. There's a good reason this Tres Leches Recipe (Three-Milk Cake) is impossible to resist and so very popular. There are a couple of bakeries in Santo Domingo famous for their tres leches (three-milk cake).

Steps to make Tres Leches (3 Milk Cake):

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 9×13 inch cake pan. Set aside.
2. Sift all dry ingredients, EXCEPT for the white sugar and set bowl aside.
3. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks with 3/4 cup of sugar on high till pale yellow and almost doubled in volume. Stir in the milk and vanilla extract. Pour wet mixture over dry mixture and stir ever so gently until well combined.
4. Beat the egg whites on high until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and beat until the egg whites are stiff, but not dry.
5. Fold the egg white mixture into the batter very gently until well combined. Pour the batter into the 9×13 pan. Smooth out the batter with an offset spatula.
6. Bake the cake until done, about 30-35 minutes. Remove cake from oven and let cool in pan for about 15 minutes. Turn over onto a rimmed platter. Pierce holes all over the cake with a fork. Be careful not to break the cake while doing this.
7. LECHE MIXTURE: Add all ingredients into a bowl and whisk until well combined. About 5-7 minutes.
8. Pour the leche mixture all over the cake slowly. Being sure that the whole cake gets soaked up with the liquid. Place cake in refrigerator to allow cooling for about 20 minutes while you work on making the whipped topping.
9. WHIPPED ICING: In a stand mixture pour the pint of whipping cream. Beat on low for 3 minutes. Gradually increase the speed and start adding the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Now add the vanilla extract. Beat the whipped topping until firm. Ice the whole cake and garnish with maraschino cherries if desired. Place cake back into refrigerator for atleast 2 hours to firm up. The colder, the better.
10. Enjoy!!

Each version is slightly different, especially their textures and sweetness levels. Tres Leches Cake (Three Milks Cake). Serve it chilled and with whipped cream, melted chocolate, or dulce de leche. Cecilia Velasco, from Mexico City and a former chef at Tres Meridas restaurant in Frisco, Texas, shares her recipe. Tres leches—or "three milks" in Spanish—is just a very moist cake that's enriched with two forms of concentrated milk and rich cream.

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