3 Milk Cake or Tres Leches

Servings:

With all the liquid in this 3 milk (or tres leches) cake, you would think it could not work, but it does. It is a typical Spanish recipe and the most delicious cake you've ever tasted — obviously, it's the moistest.

Prep
25 min
Cook
27 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
  2. 2 Beat egg whites in a large glass, metal, or ceramic bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually beat in sugar until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in flour, then beat in milk, egg yolks, melted butter, 4 teaspoons vanilla extract, and baking powder, thoroughly beating in each ingredient before adding the next. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan.
  3. 3 Bake in the preheated oven until browned and crusty on top, no more than 30 minutes. Cool cake in the pan for 10 minutes; gently remove from the pan to finish cooling.
  4. 4 Whisk sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and half-and-half together in a bowl; pour half into a pan deeper and longer than cake. Lay cooled cake in milk mixture; score deep lines in cake top using a fork. Pour remaining milk mixture over cake, allowing mixture to soak in.
  5. 5 Beat cream cheese and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and fluffy; gradually beat in heavy cream until frosting is thick and spreadable. Spread over cake.

Nutrition per serving

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