Tres Leches Cake (Three Milks Cake)

I found this cake on Allrecipes.com (posted by Stephanie) made this cake a few days ago to serve to a group we were having over that evening.  It was a perfect ending to our Mexican food feast!

Very good!

I laughed because it is called TRES, which means THREE, but the recipe actually has four types of milk in it....unless cream isn't considered a milk "officially" or maybe since the cream is only used as a topping, it's not counted.  Anyway.....made us laugh!

Cake:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup white sugar
5 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Filling:
2 cups whole milk
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk

Topping:
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Garnish:
Cinnamon - sprinkled as desired

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch baking pan. Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside. Cream butter or margarine and the 1 cup sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs and the 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract; beat well. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture 2 tablespoons at a time; mix until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes. Pierce cake several times with a fork.

Combine the whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk together. Pour over the top of the cooled cake.

Whip whipping cream, the remaining 1 cup of the sugar, and the remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla together until thick. Spread over the top of cake.

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