Tres Leches Cake

The Trest Leches Cake is a sponge cake soaked in 3 kinds of milks (evaporated milk, condensed milk and heavy cream).  

What you need:

Step I

Cake: 

1 cup of all purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

5 large eggs

3/4 cup of sugar (for one part)
1/4 cup sugar (for second part)

1/3 cup of milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (preferably dominican vanilla extract)

Add your all purpose flour in a mixing bowl

Add your baking powder to the mixing bowl

Add Salt to the mixing bowl

Mix dried ingredients and set aside

In another mixing bowl (in the mixer) add your egg yolks and 3/4 cup of sugar

Turn mixer on medium to high speed until you have a sort of pasty look to the eggs and sugar

Turn off mixer and add milk in the mixer

Add vanilla extract

Turn mixer on again on medium to high speed

Once it's all mixed, add to the dry mix of flour that you just set aside

Wisk and set aside

In another mixing bowl (or you can just wash the one you just used for the egg yolks like I did) add your egg white and the remaining sugar (1/4 cup) to the mixing bowl.

Turn mixer on high

Mix on high until you get a fluffy look to the mix

Combine both batters and mix together

Pre - heat oven to 350 degrees

I use a 9inch round baking non stick pan

Pour batter into baking pan

Bake for 35-40 minutes

Once cake is done, let it sit and cool for about 20-30 minutes.

In the meantime... get started on this: 

Step II

Tres Leches Mix: 

1/4 cup of heavy cream

1 can of condensed milk 14oz

1 can of evaporated milk

Mix all the ingredients and set aside for use once the cake has cooled down.

Step III

Icing: 

3 tablespoons of sugar

1 teaspoon of dominican vanilla

1 pint of whipping heavy cream

1 tablespoon of confections sugar

Pour the confections sugar in a mixing bowl

Add other ingredients to the mixer

Turn mixer on high

Icing should look like the below

Step III - soaking the cake

Remove the cake from the bake pan

Pour the tres leeches liquid right on top of the cake so that it can absorb in the cake

Let it sit for about 1/2 hour until it is soaked in; some of the liquid will be on the pan, that's ok

Step IV

Put your icing on refrigerate and serve cold... Enjoy the sweetness