Tres Leches Cake

Name: Tres Leches Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Central & South American
Ingredients: 1 , (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk; 1 , (12-ounce) can evaporated milk; 1 cup, heavy cream; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, salt; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 8 tablespoons (1 stick), unsalted butter; 1 cup, whole milk; 4 , large eggs, room temperature; 2 cups (14 ounces), sugar; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 3 tablespoons, light corn syrup; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2007, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Central & South American

Cakes

This cake gets its name from the mixture of three milks it gets soaked with.

SERVES12

TIME2 hours, plus 3 hours chilling and 30 minutes tempering

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UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more failproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in July of 2021. For this recipe we use a metal baking pan, not a glass baking dish as shown in t...

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