Week 12, Tres Leches
Recipe from: http://pieceofcakeblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/no-para-la-lactosa-intolerante.html
http://pieceofcakeblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/great-all-american-sponge-cake.html
So super delicioso!
Remember, I'm a sucker for textures: I would put sweetened condensed milk in my coffee everyday if I could. Heck, I'd eat it by the spoonful. The mixture of milks and light sponge cake topped with freshly whipped cream makes this cake something that I'd always wanted to learn how to make. I searched far and wide for recipes and found one on a blog that was actually a rip off of the recipe cited above. Piece of cake is now one of my favorites- she's so happy about colors and tastes and textures. She runs and she wants to yell at people who don't take care of their fruit trees--she's good people.
The sponge cake recipe seemed simple enough. Whisk dry ingredients. Separate eggs. Add some sugar to the eggs and beat...
and beat and beat.
Warm some milk and vanilla and add to the mixture and beat some more.
Add the flour and beat...
And then, the magic: egg whites!
No cream of tartar- no tricks up my sleeves, just lots of beating.
Look at those peaks! Now for some folding. I'm not sure that I have the hang of that yet...
On the way to the oven...
OH no! It's sinking!
Now the tricky part is adding the milk-- I set aside the mandatory cup per cake, but it was insane how much liquid seemed to need to go into these cakes! I added it in three additions, leaving 20-30 minutes between additions as I tooled around the kitchen- cleaning, etc.
The cakes are still soaking. Notice, there's more to go in waiting in the beige bowl and they're anticipating the whipped cream frosting.
The finished products- frosting really covers all sorts of sins!
A good week for cake. I will figure out the sponge- and I'm trying something new on the breakfast nook- an old cake stand with cordial glasses from Italy- mom doesn't like it. What do you think?
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