Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches Cake. I love Tres Leches cake but this is not the best recipe. The eggs need to be separated, and the whites beaten prior to adding them to the batter. I have done it both ways, and despite the extra work.

The BEST authentic homemade Tres Leches Cake. An ultra light cake soaked in a sweet milk mixture and topped with fresh whipped cream and cinnamon. Tres leches is a moist and subtly sweet cake made with sponge cake and three different kinds of milk. You can have Tres Leches Cake using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tres Leches Cake

1. You need 1 box of Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Cake Mix (prepare box directions).
2. Prepare 1 can of Condensed Milk.
3. You need 1 can of Evaporated Milk.
4. You need 1/4 cup of Dulce de Leche/ Leche Quemada.
5. It's 1 of Cool Whip.
6. It's 1 cup of chopped pecans (optional).

Tres Leches Cake a must try Mexican dessert! It's a deliciously rich and moist, milk-soaked cake that always gets compliments every time it's served. This Tres Leches Cake recipe is the perfect light and airy dessert and a Latin American favorite. Tres Leches means "three milks" and is a sponge cake that contains three different types of milks.

Tres Leches Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven per cake box directions in a 13×9 inch baking pan.
2. In a separate bowl add condensed milk, evaporated milk, and Dulce de Leche and mix well. Refrigerate..
3. Prepare butter recipe cake mix per box directions and ingredients..
4. Grease a 13x9 inch baking pan.
5. Bake cake per box directions..
6. Remove cake from oven when done and poke holes all over the cake. Be sure they are large enough for liquid to seep in..
7. Refrigerate cake until thoroughly cooled..
8. When cake is cooled remove cake and milk mixture from the fridge..
9. Stir the milk mixture thoroughly until well incorporated. Pour the milk mixture into the cake holes..
10. Top with the whipped topping and add nuts on top for garnish. I also like to drizzle the dulce de leche on top as garnish as well..
11. Refrigerate for at least an hour. Its best if it sets over night. Enjoy!.

Tres Leches literally translates in english as "three milks." Tres Leches is a cake that derives from Nicaragua. A lot of different countries have slightly different iterations and. To celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, let's make a cake, one that's associated with birthday parties, graduations, baptisms, and all kind of celebrations (I guess we. I first made Tres Leches cake about five years ago, when my baby was still a baby and I was trying to find something yummy to make for my friend Ana for her birthday. Ana's from Mexico and taught me.