Torta de Tres Leches or Three Milk Cake

Torta de Tres Leches or Three Milks Cake is a popular dessert in Colombia and Latin America. This cake gets the name from the three milks used, condensed milk, evaporated milk and whipping cream and it is what makes this cake so moist and delicious.

Every country has their own version for the frosting and in Colombia the egg white frosting with syrup or Italian meringue  is very traditional. I served cake with strawberry sauce which gives a little sour taste nuance to cake.

Recipe I found from here:
https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/three-milks-cake-torta-de-tres-leches

Cake for 10 person.

Sponge cake::
240 g wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
210 g whole milk
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
85 g butter
340 g sugar
0,5 tsp salt

Three milk sauce
1 tin ca 400 g sweetened condensed milk
1 tin ca 320 g condensed milk without sugar
200 g whipping cream
0,5 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting
2 egg whites
100 g sugar
50 g water
0,5 tsp vanilla extract


Preheat oven to 180 C.
Prepare cake tin. Slightly grease and flour cake tin. 

To make a sponge: In a bowl whisk together the flour, salt and baking powder. In a small pot heat the milk and butter until butter is melted, remove from the heat and set aside. In a large bowl beat the eggs with sugar until you get a strong foam. Add the flour mixture, butter mixture and vanilla extract and mix.
Pour the batter into the baking dish and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the middle comes out clean. Remove cake from the oven and with a fork make holes all over the top of the cake. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes.

When the cake is cooling, make the milk sauce, whisk together sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, heavy cream and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Pour the sauce over the cake until it is all absorbed. Refrigerate for a least 3 hours before frosting.

For the frosting, in a small pot mix the water and sugar, over medium high heat, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks are formed. While beating the egg whites, add sugar syrup and continue beating for 5 more minutes. Add vanilla extract and beat 1 more minute. Spread the frosting over the cake and refrigerate into ready to serve.

For making strawberry sauce take deep freeze strawberries and let these melt a little. Crush strawberries into puree with hand blender. Add sugar to taste and let the strawberry sauce melt totally. Serve sauce with cake. You could also add passion fruit syrup (with seeds) to cake for giving a color. 😊