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Homemade Tres Leches Costa Rica- You'Ll Never Make Anything Else!
Ingredients
  • ADDITIONAL TIME
  • 10 minutes
  • TOTAL TIME
  • 50 minutes
  • subheading: Tres leches cake ingredients:
  • 4 eggs, room temperature and separated yolk from the whites
  • ½ cup milk (whole milk preferred)
  • 1 cup of white granulated sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (in Costa Rica we would use Vainol)
  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • Non-stick cooking spray
  • subheading: Milk Cake sauce ingredients:
  • 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 1 cup sweet cream
  • 1 cup whole milk (optional. I never had seen this ingredient, after all it is TRES leches, but it cuts down on the sweet taste of the sauce if you feel it is too sweet)
  • subheading: Tres leches topping ingredients:
  • (See notes below)
  • 1 pint heavy chipping cream
  • 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla (optional)
  • subheading: Cooking Tools:
  • Hand or stand mixer (the cake really doesn't come out very well if you try to beat it by hand)
  • 9 x 13 inch baking dish
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