Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tres leches cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tres Leches Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Tres Leches Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tres leches cake using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Make ready Cake Base
- Get 1 cup all-purpose flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get Pinch salt
- Get 5 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar (divided into 3/4 and 1/4 cup)
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/3 cup milk
- Prepare Cake syrup
- Make ready 12 oz evaporated milk
- Make ready 14 oz condensed milk
- Prepare Little more than 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Prepare Whipped Cream Frosting
- Make ready 1 cup heavy cream
- Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
Steps to make Tres Leches Cake:
- Preheat oven at 350 F. Grease the pan (Baking pan or pyrex) with butter. Keep 3 mixing bowls ready.
- Separate egg white and yolks.
- Sift all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt to a mixing bowl and keep aside
- Beat egg yolks along with 3/4 cup sugar at high speed using hand mixer until it becomes pale yellow in color. Add in milk and vanilla extract. Beat at low speed until it gets mixed.
- Add in the flour mixture and beat once at low speed, so that everything gets mixed. Keep aside.
- Clean the beater, whisk and mixing bowl and dry them well. If it is wet, egg whites cannot be beaten into desired consistency.
- Beat egg whites on high speed until you get foam consistency. Add in 1/4 cup sugar little at a time and continue to beat at high speed until you get a stiff peak.
- Add the white mixture on top of yolk mixture and gently fold in until it gets mixed well. Do not mix it vigorously.
- Transfer it to the greased pan or pyrex and bake it in the preheated oven for 20 mins.
- While it’s baking, prepare cake syrup by mixing condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. Keep it refrigerated.
- Also prepare whipped cream frosting by beating heavy cream along with sugar and vanilla extract.
- Once the cake is ready cool it and invert it. Make holes all over the cake using a fork. Slowly pour the syrup and wait for 30 mins or until the cake absorbs the syrup.
- Spread the whipped cream frosting on top of the cake. Decorate with strawberries
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