Tres Leches Cake

3 Milks cake-Condensed milk, evaporated milk & heavy cream. Did I mention there's condensed milk. MmmMm so yummy. Back to the recipe. I received a request to make a Tres Leches cake for a friend's little sister's birthday. She's turning the big 2-1. Naturally when I heard of it I researched a ton of recipes. My main source of research is always from Lovin' From The Oven. Kim rocks :) She in turn obtained her recipe from the Pionner Woman. I followed the link to Ms. Ree's page. Her whole site is pretty awesome. So here's her recipe:

Ingredients
Cake
1 cup All-purpose Flour
1-½ teaspoon Baking Powder
¼ teaspoons Salt
5 whole Eggs
1 cup Sugar, Divided
1 teaspoon Vanilla
⅓ cups Milk

Leches
1 can Evaporated Milk
1 can Sweetened, Condensed Milk
¼ cups Heavy Cream

Icing
2 cups Heavy Cream, For Whipping
3 T Sugar

Baking
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan liberally until coated. You can use whatever pan you like. I tried (3) 6" pans
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl
- Separate eggs
- Beat egg yolks with 3/4 cup sugar on high speed until yolks are pale yellow
- Stir in milk and vanilla
- Pour egg yolk mixture over the flour mixture and stir very gently until combined.
- Whip egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. With the mixer on, pour in remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat until egg whites are stiff but not dry.
- Fold egg white mixture into the batter very gently until just combined.
- Pour into prepared pan and spread to even out the surface.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes depending on the pan, I did 20mins or until a toothpick comes out clean.

- Turn cake out onto a rimmed platter and allow to cool.
- Combine condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream in a small pitcher.
- When cake is cool, pierce the surface with a fork several times
- Slowly drizzle all but about 1 cup of the milk mixture—try to get as much around the edges of the cake as you can.
- Allow the cake to absorb the milk mixture for 30 minutes

- To ice the cake, whip 2 cups heavy cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar until thick and spreadable.
- Spread over the surface of the cake.
- Decorate cake with whole or chopped maraschino cherries.

Meet Sergio, my new silicone spatula from Crate & Barrel. My other one fell apart :(

Uno, dos, tres leches

MmMM Condensed milk!

I didn't take that many pictures because I was getting so anxious to make it :) BUT I also have someone else I'd like you to meet. As I was prepping the strawberries I met him:


This is Doug. He has awesome hair.

I wanted to give him eyes but he looked waaay scary.

Good thing this was just an experiment run, because there would be NO WAY I'd give this to anyone.

I cut the bf and I a slice before it had a chance to set. I told you I was anxious, didn't I? :) Anyways I let the cake sit in the fridge for a few hours and when I went to check on it one side of it was flopped over. :( talk about bummmmmer. In the rush to fix the problem I didn't capture my motedness on camera. So you'll just have to imagine this pseudo-pretty cake as a complete disaster. Nonetheless it was DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEElicious! Love love love it!

Until next time...

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