TRES LECHES
3 MILK CAKE RECIPE
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Tres Leches Cake – aka known as 3 Milk Cake. This is a simple and delightful cake. It’s a Spanish dessert of sponge cake soaked in milk bath, unique, one of its kind, very delicious. It’s very easy if you already known my soft cotton sponge cake, just a slight difference in the recipe. It has completely no oil in the recipe, and well balanced with the 3 milks that it soaked, it brings the cake a different way to another level. Hope you’re inspired. Enjoy!
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Ingredients:
I am using 7x7x3 square pan
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Sponge Cake
4 yolks
30g (2 tbsp) fine sugar
140g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) milk
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
120g (1 cup + 1 tbsp) cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 egg whites
50g (1/4 cup) fine sugar
½ tsp cream of tartar (or lemon juice)
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3 Milk Bath
80g (1/3 cup) evaporated milk
80g (1/3 cup) whole milk
75g (1/4 cup) sweetened condensed milk
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Frosting
240g (1 cup) whipping cream
(if you like more sweetness, you can add 2 tbsp of powdered sugar. I don’t like too sweet, I skipped)
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Garnish/ deco
Strawberries​
Instructions:
Sponge Cake
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Preheat oven at 160°C / 320°F. Grease and line the pan with parchment paper on the bottom.
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In 2 large bowls, separate the egg yolks and whites.
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In the bowl of yolks, add sugar. Whisk well until cream and pale. Then add the milk and whisk to incorporate. Add salt and vanilla extract, and whisk to combine.
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Sift in the dry ingredients in a few batches. Mix only until the flour disappear. Do not over mix. Continue sifting the flour and mix.
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In the other bowl of egg whites, add the cream of tartar. You can also substitute with same amount of lemon juice. Use a hand mixer to mix until bubbly before adding in the sugar. Add in the sugar little by little. Continue mixing until stiff peaks form.
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Fold in the white mixture into the yellow batter in a few batches. Just fold until the white disappear. Again, do not over mix. However, make sure there is no lumps.
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Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Use a skewer to do the action as shown in the video to release any trapped air bubbles. Tap the pan few times on the table to further release the air bubbles.
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Bake in preheated oven at 160°C / 320°F for about 20-25 min. Make sure the inserted skewer comes out clean.
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Let it cool while doing the next step.
3 Milk Bath
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In a cup, add all the 3 milks and give it a quick whisk.
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On the cake, use a fork to poke holes all over the surface. This is so that the milk will sip into the cake.
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Pour the milk onto the cake.
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Let it rest for 30 min to 1 hour or until the milks are sipped into the cake.
Frosting
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In another bowl, whip the whipping cream until stiff peaks form.
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Add the cream onto the surface of the cake. Use an offset spatula to level and smoothened the surface.
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Chill the cake for about 1 hour before cutting, OR you can serve immediately by cutting from the glass tray.
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Cake is ready to serve. Pipe some simple deco and garnish with any fruits you desire. In this case, I like strawberries to bring out the colors of the cake.
