Tres Leches Cake
Ready In: 1 hr 45 mins
Serves: 12-16
Yields: 1 cake
Ingredients
Ingredients for Cake
- 1 (18 ounce) package white cake mix
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 2⁄3 cup cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
Filling
- 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 1⁄2 pint whipping cream or 1⁄2 pint heavy cream
Frosting
- 1⁄2 pint whipping cream or 1⁄2 pint heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350F and spray a 13 x 9" cake pan with cooking spray (Pam).
- Mix cake ingredients together and pour into prepared cake pan.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 20 minutes.
- While the cake is baking, mix filling ingredients together and refrigerate.
- For frosting, whip cream until soft peaks form; blend in sugar gradually and add vanilla extract.
- When cake is done, allow to cool; then fill with milk filling.
- You can poke holes in the cake or use a flavor injector.(I use a syringe since I am a nurse).
- Frost with whipped cream and decorate.
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