Tres leches Cake for Cinco de Mayo

Posted: May 4, 2009 
Filed under: Bomb Monday, Bomb Recipes, Cake, Dessert, Foods, Mexican, The Daily Bomb
Tagged: butter cake, condensed milk, evaporated milk, sour cream, sponge cake, Tres leches
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For inquiring minds….

A Tres leches cake, or Pastel de Tres leches (Spanish, “Three milk cake”), is a sponge cake,—in some recipes, a butter cake—soaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and sour cream. When butter is not used, the tres leches is a very light cake, with many air bubbles. This distinct texture is why it does not have a soggy consistency, despite being soaked in a mixture of three types of milk.
I didn’t use sour cream, but I did use whipping cream.

Lauren Meacham