
Tres Leches Cake
A sponge cake soaked in a mixture of three types of milk.
A milk-soaked sponge cake made in the tres leches style.
Like a very moist milk cake.
Ingredients
- 8 eggs Eggs
- 1 tea glass Erythritol sweetener
- 2 tea glasses Sugar
- 1 tbsp Vanilla
- 1 tbsp Orange zest
- 2¼ cups / 250 g Flour
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- 2 litres Milk
- 200 g Cooking cream
- 200 g Ashta (clotted cream)
- Sugar or honey may be added to taste Sugar or honey for soaking
- 150 g Chantilly cream powder
- 200 ml / the amount of 1 drinking glass Ice-cold water
- Juice of 5 large oranges Orange juice
- 1.5 Cornstarch
- 1 tbsp Erythritol sweetener for the orange sauce
- ½ tea glass Sugar for the orange sauce
- Baking paper Baking paper
- For greasing the Pyrex dish Butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C with top and bottom heat.
- Beat the eggs in a bowl until airy.
- Add the sugar or erythritol to the bowl with the eggs and beat well.
- Add the vanilla to the bowl.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder into the bowl in batches.
- After adding the dry ingredients, stir the mixture by hand in the bowl until the flour disappears.
- Grease the Pyrex dish with butter, then line it with baking paper.
- Pour the cake batter into the Pyrex dish.
- Tap the Pyrex dish lightly on the table so the batter spreads out and the bubbles rise out.
- Place the Pyrex dish on the middle rack of the oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Leave the cake in the oven for 5 minutes after turning the oven off.
- Remove the cake from the oven and leave it to cool.
- Mix the milk with the cooking cream or ashta in a bowl or blender.
- Prick the surface of the cake with a fork while it is in the Pyrex dish.
- Pour the milk mixture over the cooled cake until it is absorbed.
- Whip the Chantilly cream powder with the ice-cold water in a bowl until a ready cream forms.
- Spread a layer of Chantilly cream over the surface of the cake.
- Place the cake in the refrigerator until the sauce layer is ready.
- Juice the oranges and strain the juice into a blender or bowl.
- Mix the orange juice with the cornstarch and the sugar or erythritol in a frying pan or saucepan.
- Place the orange mixture over low heat in the pan until it thickens.
- Leave the orange sauce to cool.
- Pour the cooled orange sauce over the cream layer.
- Drag a wooden stick across the surface to create decorative lines.
- Place the cake in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 hours or in the freezer for 1 hour before serving.