How To Make Coconut-Lime Tres Leches Cake
As the name implies, this Tres Leches cake recipe uses three kinds of milk: coconut, condensed, and evaporated. This will give it the perfect texture.
Serves:
Ingredients
Cake
- ½ cup butterroom temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- 2eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1tsp.coconut extract
- 1tsp.baking powder
- 1cupall purpose flour
Milk mixture:
- ½cupevaporated milk
- ½ cupcoconut milk
- ½ cupcondensed milk
Chantilly cream:
- 1cupcream
- 1tsp.coconut extract
- 3 ½tsp.sugar
Toppings:
- coconut flaketoasted
- lemon zest
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 338 degrees F.
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In a bowl whip, butter, and super until fluffy.
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Add the milk and the eggs one by one, mixing in between. Then, add the coconut extract and mix well.
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Add the flour and the baking powder. Combine everything together, pour into a pre-greased mold, and bake for 35 minutes.
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Once the cake is baked, poke small holes with a toothpick or fork. Pour the milk mixture on top.
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Let it chill for three hours in the fridge.
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For the cream, simply whip everything until it is fluffy.
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To top the cake, sprinkle coconut and lime zest.
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Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 4685.15kcal
- Fat: 310.57g
- Saturated Fat: 206.93g
- Trans Fat: 7.45g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 72.24g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 10.92g
- Carbohydrates: 440.19g
- Fiber: 0.92g
- Sugar: 409.89g
- Protein: 62.72g
- Cholesterol: 851.06mg
- Sodium: 961.75mg
- Calcium: 2039.89mg
- Potassium: 2887.42mg
- Iron: 10.73mg
- Vitamin A: 2334.11µg
- Vitamin C: 15.39mg
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