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Tres Leches Cake II

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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

Instructions

  1. 1
    Prepare cake mix as directed on the package. Transfer to a greased baking dish or cake pan, and bake per the directions.
  2. 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. 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. 4
    Pour all of the milk mixture on top of the cake.
  5. 5
    Cover the cake, and refrigerate it for 8 hours or overnight.
  6. 6
    Immediately before serving, spread cake with cool whip or as guests prefer.
Category
Desserts
Method
Baking
Cuisine
Mexican

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Tres_Leches_Cake_II