It took some fiddling with a recipe that I found in one of my old aunty cooking classes cookbooks, you know the hand written and photocopied kind to get to this one. The cake was perfect as written but the liquid was tricky. Too little and it became a what leches cake and too much and it was a sopping mess. At this amount it is just right (if I do say so myself).
The Components of a Tres Leches Cake
The Tres Leches Cake is made of three parts. The first is a sponge cake which is made without any fat so that the cake is light and airy, perfect for soaking up all that milk. The second part is the three milk filling. The milk filling is a combination of whole milk, evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk. This mixture gets poured onto the cake. The final element is whipped cream. Traditionally the whipped cream is topped with a dusting of cinnamon. Since I usually use fruit I tend to skip it.
Variations on the Tres Leches Cake
Here are some fun ideas for mixing it up with this Round Tres Leches Cake:
Instead of condensed milk whisk dulce de leche into the filling, top with a caramel crunch / praline.Top with ganache and toasted coconut Top with sliced peaches or mangos and a little drizzle of honey with a scattering of pistachios
I would be remiss if I didn’t take this time to say that when I was putting my strawberries onto the cake I was heavily inspired by this image I saw on Pinterest from. Her strawberry cake looks delicious and I hope to try it one day! Without further ado here is the recipe for a Round Tres Leches Cake. Hope you love it as much as we do!
