Best Cooks Country Tres Leches Cake Wstrawberries Recipes
STRAWBERRY TRES LECHES CAKE
Lasheeda Perry has cranked out thousands of Valentine's Day desserts over the years. She was a pastry chef at the Four Seasons for nearly a decade, she has her own Long Beach, CA, culinary company (Queen of Flavor), and she appears regularly on the Food Network Kitchen app, whipping up fun sweets like hand pies and blondies. "After being in the industry for 16-plus years, I feel like I need to switch it up on Valentine's Day," she says. And by that she means no more molten chocolate cakes. For this dessert, she went for unexpected flavors - a riff on a recipe she created for the book Toques in Black: A Celebration of Black Chefs. "I wanted to try a strawberry version because who doesn't love strawberry milk? It's so nostalgic!" she says. -Kate Trombly O'Brien for Food Network Magazine
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 2h40m
Yield 8 slices of cake
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Coat a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Sift the flour and salt together into a medium bowl. Beat the eggs and granulated sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until thick like cake batter and pale yellow in color, about 3 minutes. Add the vanilla. Gently but quickly fold in the flour mixture with a rubber spatula until combined. Pour the batter into the baking dish and spread evenly.
- Bake the cake until it springs back when gently pressed, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool 30 minutes.
- Make the strawberry sauce: Combine the strawberry milk, heavy cream, condensed milk and strawberry concentrate in a large bowl and mix very well. Pierce the cake all over with a fork, then slowly drizzle with the strawberry sauce. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Make the whipped cream: Grind the freeze-dried strawberries in a food processor until powdery. Beat the heavy cream, confectioners' sugar and strawberry powder in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until medium peaks form, about 2 minutes. Fold in the lemon extract.
- Spread the whipped cream over the cake and garnish with strawberries. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
COOK'S COUNTRY TRES LECHES CAKE W/STRAWBERRIES
I got this recipe from Cooks Country & made a few minor changes for my taste. This is one of the desserts I made for Easter 2014 dinner. I used Vanilla Bean Paste instead of Extract, & also added Butter flavored Extract. This was my first time making a 3 milk cake, & wanted to use a tried & true recipe. My husband fell in love with it. I did use White Lily Flour, a much softer & lighter AP flour. I also added Fresh sliced strawberries, which we thought added extra texture & flavor. We loved it,& I will be making it again real soon. My hubby complimented it without me asking so it was good.
Provided by Rose Mary Mogan @cookinginillinois
Categories Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 21
Steps:
- Please note I am listing what I used in this recipe as well as the baking time. The suggested time for baking was 35 minutes, but mine took 51 minutes before the center was no longer wiggly in the center. My oven is a Maytag. So baking times may vary. POSITION RACK TO CENTER OF OVEN AND PREHEAT OVEN TO 325 DEGREES F.
- Pour can of condensed milk into a medium size microwaveable bowl, then cover tightly with saran wrap. Set microwave to low setting, I set mine on #4, then microwave for 3-5 minutes, remove saran wrap, stir, and cover tightly again with a new piece of wrap.(This prevents moisture from forming on the inside of the bowl. Return to oven on low for another 3 -5 minutes. Remove wrap, and stir, if need be ,add a third wrap of saran and continue to cook over low another 3 minutes or so until milk mixture becomes thick and caramel color, a total of 9 to 15 minutes. Mine took 9 minutes. Remove from microwave.
- Slowly whisk in evaporated milk, whipping cream and vanilla bean paste or extract into the thickened condensed milk, till blended. Set aside till needed.
- Spray a 13X9 inch baking dish with Bakers Joy (my choice, or grease dish with butter and dust with flour. Set aside till needed.
- Add flour, salt & cinnamon to a medium size bowl, & whisk to blend together. Set aside till needed. Heat the butter & milk in a small sauce pan over medium low heat until butter is melted; then set aside away from heat. Crack eggs into separate bowl, and gradually add sugar while beating the eggs till well blended and lemon colored, and mixture becomes glossy about 5-7 minutes.
- Reduce the mixer speed and slowly add the cooled milk and butter mixture, all the while beating to blend. Then add the vanilla bean paste, & butter extract, then blend together.
- Slowly add the flour mixture in 3 intervals, beating well after each addition, scrape down sides of bowl as needed.
- Now pour into prepared baking dish. I chose to use a glass dish. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean about 35 minutes, (mine took 51 minutes total before center was no longer giggly. I added additional time in 5 to 7 minutes intervals checking after each time lapse.
- Allow cake to cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. Then poke holes into cake in half inch increments till the entire cake has been punched.
- Slowly pour the 3 milk mixture over cake allowing milk to seep into cake.
- Allow to sit out at Room temperature about 15 minutes. Then cover with saran wrap & refrigerate at least 3 hours or preferably over night.
- For the FROSTING: Remove cake about 1/2 hour before you are ready to serve. To a medium size bowl add the whipping cream corn syrup and vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste, and beat until soft peaks form, then spread over top of cake. Add fresh fruit if desired. I used fresh sliced strawberries.
- Cut serve and enjoy.
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