Tres Leches (Milk Cake)

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This delicious tres leches cake has a moist sponge cake layer that soaks up a sweet milk mixture made with three types of milk: whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. Top the cake with whipped cream to make a decadent Mexican dessert that's excellent for milk lovers!

Prep
24 min
Cook
50 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Gather the ingredients.
  2. 2 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
  3. 3 Sift flour and baking powder together; set aside.
  4. 4 Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until lighter in color and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture, about 1/2 cup at a time, mixing until well blended.
  5. 5 Pour batter into the prepared pan.
  6. 6 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Pierce cake all over with a fork; let cool to room temperature.
  7. 7 Mix whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk together in a bowl.
  8. 8 Pour the whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk mixture over the top of the cooled cake and allow to soak in.
  9. 9 Whip cream, remaining 1 cup of sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in a chilled glass or metal bowl with an electric mixer until thick.
  10. 10 When milk mixture has soaked in, spread cream on top of the cake.
  11. 11 Keep cake refrigerated until ready to serve. Sprinkle ground cinnamon over top of the cake before slicing. Enjoy!

Nutrition per serving

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