Eggless Chocolate Tres Leches Cake | 3 Milk Cake Recipe | with step by step photos and video. A tres leches cake, “a Dominican delight”, also known as pan tres leches, is a sponge cake in some recipes, a butter cake soaked in three kinds of milk. When butter is not used, the Tres Leches is a very light cake, with many air bubbles.
A spongy chocolate cake drenched in a moist layer of three types of sweetened milk and finished off with decadent mousse layer. A perfect chilled dessert for summer. every chocolate lover’s dream cake.
What is a Tres Leches Cake anyway?
Also known as pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches in Spanish. Moreover, it is actually a chocolate sponge cake soaked in three types of milk:
- Heavy Cream
- Evaporated Milk
- Condensed Milk
How to make Eggless Chocolate Tres Leches Cake?
Eggless Chocolate Tres Leches Cake | 3 Milk Cake Recipe | with step by step photos and video. In this recipe an eggless cake will be soaked in 3 types of milk (whole milk, condensed milk and heavy cream) and the special addition will be Chocolate frosting. To simplify the process of making this amazing cake let us see the different steps involved in the process of making:
- PREPARE THE CHOCOLATE CAKE
- PREPARING THE 3 MILK LAYER
- MAKE WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING
TOP TIPS TO MAKE THIS CAKE:
- Do not over-whip the cream that goes on top or else it would separate and turn into butter.
- Chill the cake every time to ensure that the cake has time to absorb the milk and also the cream on top has got time to set.
- Never over-mix the cake batter.
- Poking the cake ensures that the cake absorbs all the milk that you add.
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Eggless Chocolate Tres Leches Cake
Course: Dessert, CakeCuisine: InternationalDifficulty: Medium1
Kg40
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minutesEggless Chocolate Tres Leches Cake | 3 Milk Cake Recipe | with step by step photos and video. A spongy chocolate cake drenched in a moist layer of three types of sweetened milk and finished off with decadent mousse layer.
Ingredients
- For Cake
11/2 cup All Purpose Flour/Maida
6 tbsp Cocoa Powder
2 tbsp or 25 gms Milk Powder
1/2 tsp Instant Coffee Powder (optional)
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
11/2 cup Powdered Sugar
6 tbsp Vegetable oil
1 cup + 2 tbsp Lukewarm Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 tsp Vinegar
- For Preparing Milk Mix
1/4 cup or 40 gm Chocolate
1/4 tsp Instant Coffee Powder (optional)
1/4 tsp Vanilla Essence
1/2 cup Full Fat Milk or Evaporated Milk
5 tbsp Heavy Cream
5 tbsp Condensed Milk
- For Frosting
50 gm Chocolate
1 cup Whipping Cream
5 tbsp Icing Sugar
- For Garnishing
Grated Chocolates
Directions
- Step 1: Making Chocolate Cake
- Firstly, let us prepare the cake tin. Use a 7 or 8 inch round or square tin of your choice. Brush some oil and place a baking sheet in a 7 inch size cake mold. Keep it aside.
- Now, start preparing the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, by adding 11/2 cup All Purpose Flour/Maida, 6 tbsp Cocoa Powder, 25 gms Milk Powder, 1/2 tsp Instant Coffee Powder (optional), 1 tsp Baking Powder, and 1/2 tsp Baking Soda.
- Mix well and sieve it 2 times and keep it aside.
- In another bowl, add 11/2 cup of powdered sugar, 6 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 cup of lukewarm milk and 1 tsp vanilla essence. Whisk it well, until sugar dissolves.
- Now sieve through the dry ingredients gradually and fold the batter.
- If you feel the batter is too thick add 1 to 2 tbsp milk and fold the batter. Now the consistency of batter is like the flowable ribbon like consistency.
- Add 1 tsp vinegar and again mix the batter. Now our chocolate cake batter is ready.
- Pour the batter in to the prepared cake mold. Tap and level it.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 180 degree or 350F for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Once the cake is baked allow it to cool down completely.
- Upon cooling, cut a thin layer on the top of the cake to give an even surface.
- Place the cake in a glass or steel or a plastic bowl for setting the cake.
- Step 2: Preparing the Milk Mix
- Add 1/4 cup of chocolate chips or dark compound, 1/4 tsp instant coffee powder, and 1/4 tsp vanilla essence in a bowl.
- Firstly, add 1/2 cup of hot full fat milk gradually. Adding hot milk helps to melt the chocolate.
- Once chocolate is melted add 5 tbsp heavy cream and 5 tbsp condensed milk.
- Mix until everything is well combined. Now, milk mix is ready.
- Make pores on the cake completely using a tooth pick.
- Pour the prepared milk mix all over the cake.
- Cover the cake using a cling film and allow it to cool in the fridge for atleast 1hr.
- Step 3: Prepare the Frosting for the Cake
- For preparing the frosting, firstly, double boil 50 gms of chocolate chips or dark compound and 11/2 tbsp whipping cream.
- Mix well until the chocolate is melted. Once the chocolate is melted keep it aside and allow it to cool completely.
- In a mixing bowl add 1 cup whipping cream and start beating the cream using a beater.
- Once the cream starts to foam add 5 tbsp icing sugar gradually and beat until it forms stiff peaks.
- I am planning to add another top layer for frosting, so I am dividing the frosting into 2 halves.
- On one half of the frosting add the prepared chocolate mix and mix it well. Keep it in fridge for some time before frosting the cake.
- To the other half of the cream add red gel colour and mix it.
- Take the cake from the fridge. Apply the frosting layers and place the grated chocolates over the cake as per your desires.
- Slice and serve the cool tres leches cake as a dessert.
Recipe Video
Notes
- Poke the cake using a tooth pic so that the cake can absorb all the milk you add.
- Do not over-whip the cream that goes on top or else it would separate and turn into butter.
- Chill the cake every time to ensure that the cake has time to absorb the milk and also the cream on top has got time to set.
- Never over-mix the cake batter.
