Tres Leches & Cream Cake
- 8 eggs, separated
- 1 12 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups white flour
- 8 tablespoons cold water
- 1 (8 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 12 maraschino cherries, drained
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 pints heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- Make cakes a few hours ahead, cream sugar and yolks together until light yellow.
- Add flour and baking powder, stir to combine.
- Add 8 tablespoons water.
- Stir.
- Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, fold into batter.
- Pour into two 10-inch, greased spring-form pans.
- Bake at 325F, until browned on top, about 35 minutes.
- Do NOT under bake.
- Allow to cool, remove from pans.
- Whisk together condensed, evaporated, and whole milk, with vanilla.
- Put one cake on serving platter, poke holes with fork.
- Pour 1/2 the milk mixture, slowly, over cake, until absorbed.
- Dissolve the gelatin in the 2 tablespoons of cold water.
- Whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form.
- Microwave gelatin for 7-10 seconds, until warm and fluid.
- Add to cream, whipping constantly, until stiff peaks form.
- Frost the soaked cake layer with whipped cream.
- Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
- Place the second layer on top of the frosted layer.
- Pierce with fork, gently pour remaining milk mixture over cake, slowly, until absorbed.
- Frost cakes with remaining whipped cream.
- Garnish with cherries.
- Refrigerate overnight, serve cold.
eggs, sugar, baking powder, white flour, cold water, condensed milk, milk, milk, vanilla, maraschino cherries, ground cinnamon, cream, unflavored gelatin, cold water
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/tres-leches-cream-cake-274542 (may not work)