Cinnamon Tres Leches Cake

Tres Leches Cake

Our Cinnamon Tres Leches Cakes is a crowd-pleaser! It’s easy to make, and stores well in the fridge for several days. This cake is a recent discovery of mine. I was asked to make it for an event, and it was delicious! So I modified the recipe to feature our honey butter, and it did not disappoint!

Tres Leches means “three milks” in Spanish, and that’s what this cake is. It’s a sponge cake that is soaked in a mixture of three milks, giving it a yummy, moist consistency.

Let’s talk about it.

The Cake

The cake is a pretty straightforward, though I have a couple tips to make it the best it can be.

Start with creaming our Fresh Churned Cinnamon Brown Sugar Honey Butter and some sugar. Beat these until fluffy– you want to create as many air bubbles as possible, which will help the cake be light and soak up the milk. Next, add eggs and vanilla– again, beat until you’ve got some bubbles.

Then gently fold your dry ingredients in, trying to keep the batter as light and fluffy as possible.

Bake the cake, then poke holes in it as it cools. While it’s cooling, mix together your tres leches: sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream.

Pour this mixture — yes, all of it! — over the cake when it’s totally cooled. Yum!

The Topping

Let the cake sit in the fridge for 30-60 minutes while it soaks up all that moisture. In the meantime, make some basic whipped cream. Beat heavy cream with powdered sugar and vanilla until it forms stiff peaks.

Spread it over the top of the cake– make it look pretty!

Add a dusting of cinnamon, then serve!

Store your cake in the fridge, though it might not last long– it’s that good!

Enjoy!

Cinnamon Tres Leches Cake

Recipe by Chef ShamyCourse: Dessert, Sweets

Servings

12

servings

Prep time

1

hour 

15

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Ingredients

• The Cake:

• 1½ cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• ½ cup Fresh Churned Cinnamon Honey Butter, room temperature

• 1 cup white sugar

• 5 eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• Tres Leches:

• ⅔ cup cream

• 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk

• 12 oz. can evaporated milk

• The Topping:

• 1½ cups heavy whipping cream

• 1 cup powdered sugar

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1/4 tsp cinnamon, to garnish

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350° F.
• In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder. In a separate mixing bowl, cream Honey Butter and sugar together for 2-3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla extract, and mix until light and fluffy.
• Gently fold in dry ingredients.
• Pour batter into a greased 9×13 baking dish, and bake at 350° for 30 minutes.
• Pierce cake many time with wooden skewer or toothpick.
• Allow cake to cool completely.
• To make the milk mixture, mix cream, sweetened condensed milk, and evaporated milk together until fully combined. Pour over the completely cooled cake. Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.
• In the meantime, make the topping. Beat heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla together until it forms stiff peaks.
• Smooth whipped cream over the cake. Garnish with cinnamon.
• Serve. Store in the fridge for 3 days.