Costa Rica Tres Leches Recipes

COSTA RICA TRES LECHES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Grease and lightly flour a 9x13 inch rectangular baking dish (pyrex glass baking dish is good), or a round spring form cake pan will also work see note below: Set aside.
• Beat the 6 egg whites until soft peaks form. Add the sugar and self-raising flour, the 6 egg yolks and the ice water.
• Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake in oven at 350ºF for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. (Make the Tres Leches Syrup while cake is baking). Remove cake from oven and place cake (Do NOT remove cake from baking dish) on wire cooling rack.
• Note: I used a round spring form pan did not remove the cake but it took about 45 minutes to cook instead of 25-30.
• To Make The Tres Leches Syrup:
• In a large bowl combine the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and the 2 cups whole milk. Mix well. Stir in a little rum if desired.
• With a fork, toothpick or wooden skewer, poke holes all over top of cake and pour the Tres Leches syrup over the top of cake until completely absorbed.
• Once cake has cooled sufficiently, refrigerate cake in baking dish for at least 3 hours or preferably overnight before frosting with whipped cream
• Makes 9 - 12 servings.

COSTA RICAN TRES LECHES

Steps:

• Beat the white eggs in until merengue, then add little by little the sugar (add it like rain). Then add the yolks. Stop the mixer and star adding the flour and baking powder and salt (previouly mixed together). All ingredients mix with the metalic spoon in a rounding movement and last add the vanilla. Finish up. Set the mix in the pyrex and cook for 25 minutes or golden brown on 350 F. While is baking, mix one can condensed milk, one can evaporated milk and one can of regular milk (use the condensed milk container to mesure it). Put all ingredients in the blender for 2 minutes. Add to the cake inmediately coming out of the oven, and already pinched fork all over the top.

TRES LECHES (3 MILK CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Separate the eggs.
• Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and then add the 3 egg yokes 1 at a time.
• Add the sugarr, baking powder, and flour.
• Bake in a greased 13x9 pan at 350 for 15 minutes.
• Let the cake cool completely in the pan.
• When cool, poke holes in the cake with a fork all over.
• In a blender, lightly mix condensed milk, evaporated milk, and 1 cup of the whipped cream.
• Pour over cake & then top with the other cup of whipped cream.

TRES LECHES PINA COLADA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch cake pan.
• Stir yellow cake mix, eggs, water, and vegetable oil in a bowl until moistened; beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stir in crushed pineapple. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the cake is lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean or with moist crumbs, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove cake from oven.
• Whisk cream of coconut with milk in a bowl until smooth; pour mixture over hot cake. Allow cake to cool thoroughly.
• Whip cream in a mixing bowl with sugar, using an electric mixer, until whipped cream holds soft peaks. Frost top of cake with whipped cream and sprinkle with toasted coconut.