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TRES LECHES CAKE Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
6 eggs, separated
1 ¼ c. sugar
1 ¾ c. flour
2 Tbsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
Whisk together flour and baking powder in small bowl. Put egg yolks, 1 cup of sugar and vanilla in another medium bowl. Put egg whites in a large bowl and beat them until soft peaks form. Add ¼ c. sugar gradually, and continue beating until stiff peaks form. Then beat egg yolks, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. Fold egg yolk mixture into egg whites, then fold in the flour mixture.
Spray 9 or 10 inch spring form cake pan with cooking spray. Line the bottom with parchment paper, then spray again. (Or just grease and flour pan). Pour batter into pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes.

Soak:
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1 (12 oz.) can pet milk
1/3 c. whipping cream

After cake has cooled for 15 minutes, poke little holes all in it. Then pour the soaking mixture over the cake. (Be sure the wire rack is over a pan in case the cake pan leaks a little of the milk mixture). Let cake soak overnight in refrigerator. Frost cake the next day.

Icing:
2 egg whites
1 c. sugar
¼ tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. vanilla

Put this in a medium size bowl over a small pan half full of simmering water. Beat until fluffy and stiff. (this takes approx. 7-10 minutes, maybe longer). Beat until it looks like it will stay on the sides of the cake, however long that takes. Frost the cake, then refrigerate.

 

 

 

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