Tres Leches Recipe #11619
Tres Leches Cake is a very moist cake filled with a mixture of "milks." It is a favorite Mexican and South American Dessert. I got the recipe from Chela, my housekeeper who is from Mexico. The Cake preparation includes 3 parts: the cake, the filling, and the frosting.
by Dawn
1¾ hours | 1 hour prep
SERVES 12 , 1 cake
Ingredients for Cake
- 1 package white cake mix
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
Filling
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1 can condensed milk (14 oz.)
- 1/2 pint whipping cream
Frosting
- 1/2 pint whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Mix cake ingredients together and place in a rectangular cake pan (spray with non stick cooking oil) Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 20 minutes.
- Mix together milk filling together and refrigerate while cake is cooking.
- Mix Frosting together as cake cools.
- Mix well until whipped cream peaks.
- When cake is done allow to cool, then fill with milk filling.
- You can poke holes in the cake or use a flavor injector.
- I use a syringe since I am a nurse.
- Frost and decorate.
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