Tres leches is one of the richest and delicious cake I ever tried. Tres leches means three milk. In this spongy butter cake is soaked in sweetened three type of milk such heavy cream, condensed milk and evaporated milk. It is then topped with whipped cream.
In this recipe, we tried butter cake with wheat flour and sweetened with raw sugar. Simple singer cake is made by placing doll and Mike. Lets move on to the recipe.
INGREDIENTS
Cake
Whole wheat flour - 1 Cup - 1Tbsp
Corn flour - 1 Tbsp
Egg - 3
Butter - 1/4 Cup
Raw sugar - 1/2 - 3/4 Cup
Baking powder - 1 Tsp
Baking soda - 1/4 Tsp
Salt - 1 Tsp
Milk - 1 Cup
Frosting
Heavy cream - 1 Cup
Unbleached sugar - 3 Tsp
Corn flour - 1 Tsp
Color
Saffron - a pinch
Hot water - few drops
Tres leches sauce
Evaporated milk - 12 Oz
Condensed milk sweetened - 9 oz
Heavy cream - 1/3 Cup
PROCEDURE
Cake Preparation
1. Preheat the oven at 350F, all the ingredients for cake making should be in room temperature.
2. In a large bowl, take butter (room temp) and raw sugar and whisk until the butter and sugar blend together.
3. Then add yellow yolk of eggs and whisk well until it forms creamy texture.
4. Then add room temperature milk and fold together and keep aside.
5. In another bowl, sieve twice all the solid ingredients such as whole wheat flour, corn flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
6. Now add the flour mixture little by little to the egg mixture and mix by folding method.
7. Then whisk the egg white until it reaches peak consistency.
8. Then mix the foamy egg white to the cake batter gently by folding method.
8. If you think the cake batter is thick , add little more milk and combine together.
9. Batter consistence should flow like a ribbon.
10. Pour the cake batter in greased deep cake pan or glass pan.
11. Now place the cake pan in long tray filled with water to keep the moisture of the cake.
12. Bake the cake for 30- 35 minutes or until the tooth pick comes out clean.
13. Once the cake is done, allow them to cool down to room temperature.
Tres leches Sauce preparation:
1.In a large beaker or vessel with spout , add in the measured three milk mixture and mix well.
2. Once the cake cool down to room temperature, punch lots of hole using fork which helps in the easy absorption of sauce.
3.Pour the sauce gently over all the surface of cake.{ If you want, you can trim the upper brown layer of the cake and then pour the sauce for easy absorption.( I did without trimming the cake )}
4. Allow the cake to soak in the sauce for half an hour, if needed add some more sauce.
5. Then keep refrigerated for 2 hr to overnight. ( I kept it over night)
Whipping cream preparation
1. On next day, Freeze bowl , whisk for around 1 hr.
2. Grind corn flour and sugar to a fine powder.
3. Add in the heavy cream, sugar mixture and beat with electric whisk until the peak formation .
4. The cream should not off from bowl, when we invert the bowl that is the consistency.
5. Avoid over whisking, it will start form butter.
6. Now whipped cream is ready.
7. Just spread the cream over the tres leches cake, as much we need.
Whipped cream with saffron
1. In mortar and pestle, add a pinch of saffron and grind to powder.
2. Add in very little hot water and soak for around 15- 20 minutes.
3. Now the yellow color is ready.
4. Add few drops of the color and whisk with whipped cream to get the yellow color cream for decoration.
Singer Mike
1. Using normal chapati dough , make a thin cylinderial Mike stand supported with tooth pick.
2. Make oval shape for mike head ,then make thin on the back side and rounded on front side. Then attach to the stand .
3. Spread some yellow cream .
4. Simple homemade Mike is ready.
5. Just poke the Mike in front of yellow color doll since yellow is our theme.
Decorations
Decorate as per the wish, using fruits such as strawberry, raspberry, black berries etc.
I used homegrown strawberries and piped some yellow cream flowers . ( I forget to keep the yellow cream in fridge while making Mike arrangement, so I lost the consistency of the cream)😟
So make sure to place whipped cream always in the fridge.
Homemade whole wheat Tres leches singer cake is ready for the party 🥳
Remaining tres leches sauce (three milk mixture) can be used to make yummy popsicle.
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