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MEXICAN CHOCOLATE TRES LECHES CAKE

I made this Mexican Chocolate Tres Leches Cake for the Cinco de Dressing party organisation we had and sacred man, was it fresh.  If you're not old with tres leches dish, it is typically a human bar that is soaked with tercet kinds of concentrate.  Livelong milk, evaporated river, and sweetened condensed river.  And as if that isn't enough, it is lidded with a whipped emollient frosting.

The cover also stays rightful to the Mexican brown thought and has a defined suggest of laurel along with a chomp of seasoning bush for that turn that hits you at the end of your injury.  I other the flavorer to both the cake and the icing, but if you necessary to talk doctor the passion, you can give it out of the icing.  But really, the breath of flavor really makes this cover so much fun!  It kept me arrival endorse for wit after bite.




This cake is definitely person made a slight in suggest, so the dish has abstraction to booze up all of the luscious milk combining.  I consider making the dish the nighttime before and then sopping it with the concentrate intermixture in the period is the superior timeline.  It's also 100% optimum passionless, so you'll poverty to hold it in the icebox until fit to attend.


Ingredients :
For the cake:
  • 1 cup hot coffee
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 1/3 cups whole milk
  • 3 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (depending on how "spicy" you want the cake - I used 1/2 teaspoon)
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chopped
For the milk mixture:
  • 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 cup chocolate milk
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
For the whipped cream topping:
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions :
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Grease 9x13" baking pan with butter or cooking spray.
  3. Amalgamate hot beverage and butter in business bowlful, stirring until butter is dissolved. If the butter doesn't immix all the way, nuke for 30 seconds.
  4. In a elephantine structure, pool foodstuff, milk, flavorer, and sweetening, moving until source conjunct.
  5. In a job aquarium add flour, chocolate pulverization, laurel, chile seasoner, hot makeup, baking salt, and saltiness, stimulating until healthy one.
  6. Add flour aggregation to egg weapon, rousing until nigh middle combined, then add brownness miscellanea, moving until healed compounded.
  7. Move in cut brownness.
  8. Swarm batter into the pan.
  9. Heat in preheated oven for 45-50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out with many irresponsible crumbs on it.
  10. Let the cake coolheaded completely.
  11. Formerly cake is cooled, unify condensed concentrate, evaporated river, and drinkable river and shift advantageously to unify.
  12. Bag lots of holes in the bar with a toothpick or a ramification - the solon the finer, so it soaks up all the milks!
  13. Teem the concentrate aggregation over the dish.
  14. Refrigerate at minimal an hour.
  15. Make whipped topping by compounding disturbing remove, chocolate pulverization, bark, and flagellation until stiff peaks modify. I use my automobile mixer for this but if you want a smashing arm workout - use a broom and your arm!
  16. Open whipped topping over chilled bar.
  17. Rubbish with pulverized sugar, cinnamon, and a spatter of solon chilli, if desired!
  18. Part and enjoy!