Tres Leches Cake Recipe with step by step pictures. Popular mexican dessert cake recipe made with a sponge cake which is soaked in a three milk concotion.
Preheat oven to 160 degree C. Grease a 20 cm square cake pan with oil and set aside.
Take flour, baking powder, salt in a sifter and sieve well.
Take cold water, vanilla in a jug and mix well. Set aside.
Take eggs in a bowl and use a hand blender to whip it up. Once it is well whipped. add in sugar slowly and keep whipping.
Once the eggs turn fluffy, add in half of the flour mix and whip, add in the cold water mix and the remaining flour and mix well.
Pour this into the cake pan and bake for 30 to 35 mins. Insert a toothpick to check whether the cake is done. If it comes out clean then the cake is baked.
While the cake is cooling, take the three milk in a jug and mix well.
Take the warm cake and poke holes all over it using a fork. Now pour the milk mix over it and keep pouring and pouring. Leave it for few minutes so the cake absorbs the liquid. Now pour again, i poured ¾ of the milk mix in. Covered it with plastic wrap and popped it in fridge for couple of hours.
Now i took out and poured some more milk mix in.
Cut the cake into pieces and garnish with whipped cream and cherries.