My birthday cake of choice for those of us that love moist, dairy-rich cakes! This Tres Leches Cake is perfect for a crowd made in a 9x13-inch pan, but I also have directions for scaling it down to a 6-inch cake pan to serve 2-4 people.Tres leches cake recipeYou’re looking at my birthday cake of choice: the lovely, tender sponge cake soaked in 3 different dairy milks and topped with whipped cream, also known as Tres Leches Cake.Tres leches in Spanish translates to ‘three milks,’ if you didn’t know.Tres leches is a basic sponge cake, with a sweet creamy mixture of 3 milks poured on top.The milks seep into the lovely air bubbles of the cake and make it so moist and delicious.

The icing on top of the cake is really just more freshly whipped cream. Save This Recipe FormΔ Want to save this recipe? Enter your email below & we'll send it straight to your inbox.Plus you’ll get more great recipes and tips from us each week!Send It! This cake is light, fluffy, dense, creamy, and unctuous all at once.Yes, I just said unctuous, and I mean it in the best way possible.What is a sponge cake?First, let’s talk about sponge cake.

A sponge cake is when the eggs of the cake are separated and the whites are whipped separately in order to create lots of air bubbles and pockets in a cake.The air bubbles keep the cake light and airy (naturally), but they also give a place for the milk mixture to reside. So, for this cake, we’re going to separate the e

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