A Cozy Christmas with Carnation
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Mexican
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Serves: 8
 
Traditional tres leches cake (three milks cake)
Ingredients
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ unsalted butter
  • 1 cup milk for batter, 1 cup milk for tres leches
  • 2 ¼ cups flour
  • 1 Carnation tetra pack evaporated milk or 2 cans
  • 14oz La Lechera sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 cups milk
  • For the frosting:
  • 8oz tub Cool Whip
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • Optional: Strawberries, pineapples, other fresh fruits, caramel sauce, or pecans for decorating
Instructions
  1. Pass the flour through a large mesh strainer 3 times. This will create a very fine flour that feels like silk when passed through your hands.
  2. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together then set aside.
  3. Using an electric mixer (a hand mixer or a very strong arm is just fine) beat the butter until smooth and creamy.
  4. Add the sugar into the mixer until the butter is light and smooth.
  5. Gently add one egg at a time into the mixer to create the batter.
  6. Slowly add in half the amount of flour and half the milk mixing on low. Once that is well absorbed add in the other half of the flour and milk. Mix until you only have a small amount of lumps, but do not overmix.
  7. Evenly fill the glass pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Poke holes throughout the cake using chopsticks or something similar in size. Set on the counter until cool to the touch, approximately a couple hours.
  8. In a large bowl or blender, mix evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and milk until combined. --Little by little pour the tres leches over the holes you created in the cake, until it pools at the top, and save the leftovers in the fridge in case you need to add more the next day. Cover the cake and keep refrigerated overnight. This step is a must to ensure a perfectly moist cake!
  9. The next day make the frosting by combining the Cool Whip and the powdered sugar until peaks form. This lighter frosting goes perfectly with the density of the tres leches cake. You will notice that your cake has tripled in weight and that is normal. Add more of your tres leches until it pools at the top again and then frost immediately.
  10. Garnish with fresh fruits or pecans and enjoy immediately! Refrigerate leftovers.
Recipe by shewillsay at https://www.shewillsay.com/a-cozy-christmas-with-carnation/