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Tres Leches Cake Recipe

Tres Leches Cake Recipe

This type of dessert is very popular throughout Latin America (Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador) however in Peru is made with its own style, varying the recipe with the integration of fruits, which makes it even more traditional and with a touch of Peruvian character.

La Tres Leches Cake basically it is a butterless vanilla sponge cake which bathes with three types of milk, such as condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream. In addition, it is filled with small pieces of fresh fruit, especially with strawberries, peaches and blackberries.

This delicious dessert is served in any celebration to celebrate the sweetness of life, as well as to entertain with different flavors to friends, guests and close relatives who are by our side.

Tres Leches Cake Recipe

Tres Leches Cake Recipe
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Tres Leches Cake Recipe

Plateau Dessert
Cooking Peruvian
Preparation time 2 hours
Cooking time 30 minutes
Total time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 8
Calories 375kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 and ½ cup of wheat flour
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • ½ tbsp. of baking powder
  • ½ tbsp. cinnamon powder
  • 1 can of condensed milk
  • 1 can of evaporated milk
  • 2 cans of heavy cream
  • 6 eggs
  • Vanilla essences to taste

Materials or utensils  

  • square or rectangular mold
  • Mixer
  • two bowls
  • Spatula
  • Fridge

Preparation

  • 1 Step: Grease and flour the mold before preparing the biscuit. Once ready, reserve.
  • 2 Step: Heat oven to 250 degrees.  
  • 3 Step: In a bowl, sift the flour along with the baking powder and ground cinnamon
  • 4 Step: Apart, in another container should beat the egg whites to the point of sigh or snow with half of the sugar. Help yourself with the blender and when you get the indicated consistency, turn off the motor and store the mixture in the fridge.  
  • 5 Step: In the next bowl, place the egg yolks (yellow) and the whites already beaten to the point of sighing and stir them thoroughly with a spatula. Add the dry ingredients and continue to integrate everything slowly.
  • 6 Step: Now, pour the mixture into the previously floured source and take it to bake for 30 minutes.
  • 7 Step: To prepare the tres leches cream, bring a saucepan to a simmer and incorporate the three types of milk plus the cinnamon sticks and the vanilla. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Now, strain to get rid of the lumps and so the preparation is clean.
  • 8 Step: When the cake is ready remove from heat and let stand until room temperature.
  • 9 Step: Without removing the cake from the mold, make small holes with the help of a knife or a toothpick and pour the hot milk cream over the entire surface. Let cool and refrigerate for a full day so that the pasta takes on flavor and consistency.
  • 10 Step: To decorate, beat a can of very cold cream together with 60 grams of powdered sugar and vanilla. Mix well until it reaches the point of snow. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
  • 11 Step: Remove the cake from the fridge and place the cream on it. Cover each space well and garnish with shredded strawberries, peaches, blackberries, grapes, or raspberries.  

Tips and recommendations

  •  The biscuit can be placed in a wave tray or that it has a certain height so that when the milk is placed it does not spill and it absorbs all the candy it needs.
  • You can decorate the cake with pieces of raspberry, strawberries or with fruits in amoeba, according to your taste.
  • In the event that you do not want to decorate with the meringue, you can cover with Chantilly cream or whipped cream.
  • You can fill the cake before adding the milk. You will achieve this by splitting it in half and integrating dulce de leche, granola, sliced ​​almonds, raisins, plums, strawberries or drops of white, milk or bitter chocolate.

Nutritional Contribution

Speaking of a dessert the last thing we imagine is how healthy it will be when we eat it. However, many of these treats can bring us more than just a touch of sweetness to our lives.

Given this, today we present the nutrient count What do we take into our body? through this rich preparation:

Evaporated milk:

  • Calories: 8 gr
  • Total fat: 4.6 gr
  • Saturated fatty acids: 29mg
  • Iron: 0,2 gr
  • Vitamins B2: 61 gr
  • Calcium: 0,1 gr
  • Vitamins B: 624 gr

Milk cream:

  • Calories: 402 gr
  • Total Fats: 21 gr
  • Saturated fatty acids: 105 gr
  • Cholesterol: 621 mg
  • Sodium: 98 mg
  • Potassium: 1-3 g
  • Carbohydrates: 0,5 gr
  • Sugars: 25 gr

Eggs:

  • Calcium: 0,9 mg
  • Iron: 19,7 mg
  • Sodium: 155 gr
  • Carbohydrate: 56 gr
  • Sugar: 1.2 mg
  • Iron:  0.1 gr
  • Vitamina B: 610 mg

Wheat flour:

  • Fat: 0.2 gr
  • Sodium: 35 mg
  • Sugar: 2.7 gr
  • Proteins: 0.2 gr
  • Iron: 0.1 gr
  • Vitamin B6: 12 gr
  • Magnesium: 10 mg

Sugar  

  • This is a carbohydrate that contains a lot of energy. Each grain has an approximate 4 calories, on the other hand, a teaspoon of sugar has about 20 calories.

Fun facts

  • Currently the origin of the Tres Leches Cake but some historians believe it was in Mexico where it was truly created for the first time; others think it was in El Salvador. However, what does coincide is that the first data about this dessert are described around the XNUMXth century, during the intercultural transition of Europe and the Americas.
  • la Tres Leches Cake It is a popular dessert from Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other countries of Central America like Nicaragua and Honduras.
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