Name: Reseña de Tres Leches Cake por hurkanakbiyik en Şerifoğlu Café & Patisserie, Amsterdam, Países Bajos
Item: Tres Leches Cake
Rating: 3.4
Author: hurkanakbiyik

Tres leches cake is a Latin American sponge soaked after baking in a mixture of three milks, evaporated, sweetened condensed and whole milk or cream, until it is saturated and cold, then topped with whipped cream or meringue and often a few strawberries or a dusting of cinnamon. Mexico and Nicaragua both claim it and neither can prove it; the dish spread across the region in the mid-twentieth century along with canned milk, and recipes printed on the labels of evaporated and condensed milk tins did much of the work. It belongs to the same family as the trifle and the European milk-soaked cakes, but the three-milk soak and the fact that the cake is served chilled are its own. It is the standard birthday and celebration cake across Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, sold by the slice in bakeries and by the whole tray for parties.

The sponge has to be built to take liquid without collapsing: a génoise-style cake of whisked eggs, sugar and flour with little or no butter, baked in a shallow rectangular tin, cooled, and pricked all over with a fork or skewer. The milk mixture is roughly equal parts of the three, sometimes with a spoon of rum or vanilla, poured slowly over the cake in stages so that it absorbs rather than pools; a 23 by 33 centimetre cake takes around 600 to 700 millilitres. It then rests in the fridge for at least four hours and better overnight, which is when the cake stops being wet and becomes uniformly moist. The topping goes on cold: lightly sweetened whipped cream in Mexico and the north, an Italian or Swiss meringue in Nicaragua and much of Central America, where the cake is also sometimes finished with a layer of dulce de leche.

Cut a slice and press it: it should be heavy, cold and moist right through, with a little milk weeping onto the plate but no pool, and the crumb should hold together instead of dissolving into pudding. The top should be lighter than the cake, and the sweetness, which is considerable, should come with the dairy richness of the evaporated milk rather than just sugar. Mark down a dry band in the centre where the soak did not reach, a cake so wet it falls apart on the fork, a sponge that has gone gummy from too much flour or butter, canned whipped topping instead of cream, and a serving at room temperature, which turns the whole thing cloying. Cinnamon and fruit are decoration; the cake itself should be judged without them.

Tres Leches Cake

Netherlands

Şerifoğlu Café & Patisserie

This is simple yet still a quite good dessert for me. There are multiple versions of it. 

At this day I ate the ones with pistachios. The cake was normal and nothing special. Pistachios were fresh.

I recommend it if you want something niced not too sugary. The cream next to it was necessary at all.

Reseña de Tres Leches Cake por hurkanakbiyik en Şerifoğlu Café & Patisserie, Amsterdam, Países Bajos

Tres Leches Cake

Şerifoğlu Café & Patisserie

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