Tres Leches Cake
 
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Decadent and delicious, Tres Leches Cake that tastes like magic! Perfect for serving to company or for celebrating holidays like Mother's Day or Easter.
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Recipe type: Cake
Cuisine: Mexican
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • For the Cake:
  • 1 yellow cake mix
  • 1 small (3.4 oz) box of instant vanilla pudding
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • ⅔ cup oil, canola or vegetable
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • For the Milk Mixture:
  • 12 ounces evaporated milk
  • 9 ounces of sweet and condensed milk (about ⅔ of a 14 ounce can)
  • ¼ cup whipping cream
  • For the Whipped Cream topping:
  • 1¾ cups whipping cream
  • ½ cup powdered sugar, scant
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • and berries of your choice for topping
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and lightly spray a 9x13 glass baking dish with cooking spray.
  2. Prepare cake by combining the yellow cake mix, pudding, sour cream, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix on medium speed with your hand mixer or in your stand mixer for two minutes or until well combined and smooth. The cake batter will be quite thick. (If you do not have a mixer, you can do this by hand with a whisk.)
  3. Spread the thick cake batter evenly into the prepared glass baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.
  4. Let cake cool for at least 30 minutes.
  5. While cake is cooling combine the milk mixture by whisking together the evaporated milk, sweet and condensed milk, and ¼ cup of whipping cream.
  6. When cake has cooled for at least 30 minutes use a bamboo skewer, chopstick, or anything of a similar size to poke holes all over the cake as pictured above. Once you have the holes poked, pour the milk mixture evenly over the cake. Cover tightly and place in the fridge for at least 6 hours but preferably overnight.
  7. When you are ready to serve the cake, mix up the whipping cream topping by combining the 1¾ cup whipping cream, the powdered sugar, and vanilla. Mix on high with a hand mixer until it turns to cream and holds a peak when you stop mixing.
  8. Spread the whipping cream topping over the cake and top with your favorite berries.
  9. Enjoy!
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/tres-leches-cake/