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Tres Leches Cake II Recipe

Mexico

Tres leches cake is a popular Latin American dessert using 3 types of milk.

Ingredients

  • 1 box of white cake mix, preferably with pudding in the mix
  • 1 can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 can of evaporated milk
  • 1 cup of heavy whipping cream or half and half
  • 1 container of cool whip

Procedure

  1. Prepare cake mix as directed on the package. Transfer to a greased baking dish or cake pan, and bake per the directions.
  2. While the cake is baking, combine the sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heaving whipping cream to make the milk mixture. Mix well.
  3. When the cake is finished baking, remove from the oven and poke holes all over the top of the cake with a fork.
  4. Pour all of the milk mixture on top of the cake.
  5. Cover the cake, and refrigerate it for 8 hours or overnight.
  6. Immediately before serving, spread cake with cool whip or as guests prefer.

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook · Cookbook:Tres Leches Cake II, CC BY-SA 3.0.