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Tres Leches Cake

Name: Tres Leches Cake
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Mexico
Ingredients: 150g All-purpose flour; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 4 Egg; 150g Sugar; 150ml Evaporated Milk; 150ml Sweetened Condensed Milk; 200ml Heavy Cream; A pinch Cinnamon powder

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A sponge cake soaked in three kinds of milk — moist, rich, and much loved in Mexico.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pastel de tres leches means 'three milks cake.' It's loved throughout Latin America and especially popular in Mexico. A sponge cake is soaked with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and cream, making it astonishingly moist and rich. It's a classic birthday cake.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a birthday party, candles go into a moist tres leches cake and everyone sings.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 150g
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Egg 4
Sugar 150g
Evaporated Milk 150ml
Sweetened Condensed Milk 150ml
Heavy Cream 200ml
Cinnamon powder A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thick.
Sift in the flour and baking powder, fold gently, and pour into a pan.
Bake at 180°C for 25–30 minutes and let cool.
Mix the evaporated milk, condensed milk, and 100ml cream and slowly soak it into the cooled cake in several additions.
Whip the remaining cream, spread on top, and sprinkle with cinnamon.

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