Who Has The BEST Tres Leches Cake Recipe On Youtube?

cake flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: all-purpose flour

Whole wheat flour adds fiber, while all-purpose flour is more budget-friendly.

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: coconut cream

💰Cheaper: whipped topping

Coconut cream is lower in calories, and whipped topping is often cheaper.

Test five popular tres leches cake recipes from YouTube.

Discuss the three milks used: sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and either milk or heavy cream.

Pour the three milks over a sponge cake that has been poked with a fork to soak.

Top the soaked cake with whipped cream and thinly sliced strawberries.

Rank the recipes from least favorite to favorite based on taste and texture.

For the fifth recipe, use cake flour and sift it with baking powder, then mix with egg yolks, sugar, milk, and vanilla.

Fold in meringue gently, noting that cream of tartar is used but deemed unnecessary.

Bake in a 7-inch square pan, noting that the cake shrinks when cooling and has difficulty soaking up the milk mixture.

Switch to a skewer for poking the cake, as a fork caused tearing.

For the fourth recipe, also use cake flour and whisk egg yolks with sugar until pale before adding dry ingredients.

Struggle with a crumbly batter due to the order of adding milk, which is added later than in other recipes.

Accidentally add all meringue at once, making it tough to fold in, resulting in a funny-looking batter.

Allow the cake to cool for 30 to 60 minutes before pouring the milk mixture over it, then chill overnight.

For the third recipe, use a 10-inch round pan, which is unusual for tres leches cake.

Make an adult de leche sauce that takes over 90 minutes, but it thickens too much and is unusable.

Remove the sauce and proceed with the cake, which looks pretty with strawberries on top but is slightly dry.

For Natasha's Kitchen's recipe, whip egg yolks and sugar until fluffy, then add milk and vanilla to the dry ingredients of all-purpose flour and baking powder.

Whip egg whites and sugar into stiff peaks and fold into the batter before pouring into a buttered casserole dish.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes and use 9 ounces of sweetened condensed milk, a full can of evaporated milk, and heavy cream for the milk syrup.

Make whipped cream with granulated sugar instead of powdered sugar, resulting in a rich, moist cake that is a bit too sweet.

For Preppy Kitchen's recipe, use sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, and whole milk for the milk syrup, achieving a perfect combination.

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