Pastel de Tres Leches(three milk cake)

I will be telling you today why they named it the three milk cake and how to make it. A tres leches cake, is a sponge cake soaked in three types of milks:  Evaporated milk, condensed milk and heavy cream. The cake is very popular in many parts of Latin America. It is similar to the british rum cake. Pastel de Tres Leches or Three Milk's Cake, is one of the most, if not the most popular and sold cake throughout Mexico. If you want to learn more about this cake you can go to tres leches. For now i will give you the recipe so you can try if you would like to at home.

TRES LECHES CAKEServes 10-12

INGREDIENTSFor CAKE
9 eggs, separated1 cup sugar1 tablespoon vanilla extract2 cups all purpose flour
For SAUCE
1 can sweetened condensed milk1 can evaporated milk1 cup milk1 tablespoon vanilla extract
For TOPPING
2 cups heavy whipping cream1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
TO PREPARE
Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Butter a 9 x 13 inch pan, lining the bottom with a piece of parchment paper cut to fit the pan.

Pour the egg whites into the bowl of your mixer and beat on medium-high speed for 4 to 5 minutes, or until they hold soft peaks. Slowly stir in the sugar and continue beating until they hold hard or more stiff peaks. Turn off the mixer and with a spatula, move the egg white mixture onto a large mixing bowl.

Rinse the bowl of the mixer and its whisk. Now pour the egg yolks into the bowl of the mixer and beat on medium-high speed for about 5 to 6 minutes, or until the egg yolks become creamy, puffy and their color has toned down to an almost cream color rather than a loud yellow. Stir in the vanilla and continue beating for another minute. Turn off the mixer.

Pour the egg yolk mixture onto the egg white mixture and with a spatula, in evolving motions, combine them into a homogeneous single batter. Do so gently trying not to lose much volume from the mixture. When fully combined, fold in the flour, scraping the bowl with the spatula so that all the flour is well mixed.

Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and place into the oven for 22 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. It can be a bit moist, but not wet. The top of the cake should be tanned and feel fluffy if you touch it. Remove it from the oven and let it cool.

Once it cools down, turn it onto a platter. Remove the parchment paper and cover the top with an upside down platter and invert again. The platter should be large enough to hold the cake and the vanilla sauce you are about to prepare. Using a fork, or two, poke wholes all over the cake so that it will better absorb the vanilla sauce.

In a mixing bowl, combine the sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, milk, and vanilla extract. Pour the vanilla sauce over the cake.

In the bowl of your mixer, whip up the heavy cream with the confectioners' sugar on medium-high speed until the mixture holds up stiff peaks, about 1 to 2 minutes. Spread the whipped cream all over the already wet cake. Then yum, eat it all up.

Mothers day(a bit late)

Mothers day is the 10th in Mexico so they celebrate it before they do in the USA.  Here are some recipies you could have done mothers day.  This one is made mostly in the USA not as much in Mexico but here is thee recipie.  It is called CHOCOFLAN. (The link goes to a picture of a cake that looks really good of the chocoflan kind and if you look closely you can see the bakery that did it. The website of it is Pasteleria Santa Elena that did that cake.)
Ingredients

•1. box of flour for chocolate cake                         
•1. Tin of evaporated milk (12 fl oz)                
•1. Tin of milk condensed (14 oz.)
•1/2 cup normal milk
•4. eggs
•4. ounces of cream cheese
•1 tablespoon of vanilla.
•Cajeta

Preparation Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a thread with butter and add caramel topping to taste.

PASTEL Prepare the flour as stated on the box.
Drain the mixture to the prepared mold little by little.

Flan To prepare the flan liquefy all the milk along with the cream cheese, eggs and vanilla and mix well.Add the mix over the cake very carefully and despasio,cover with aluminum foil this well it is important that it is not capped off.

In a small bowl to largest oven adds water and placed the mold the cake already prepared this is by that is cooking in water bath,cook for 1hr 1/2 to 2 hours while the cake is baking do not unscrew.
After the time of cosimiento takes the cake from the oven and let cool for 15 to 20 minutes then flip the cake in a Plato
Let it cool and then refrigeralo.serve well cold.

SECRET:so the cake will be smoother and more rich instead of adding water as stated on the box of the pastel agreguenle evaporated milk (same amount) and also a little more oil this will make this even more juicy and if it is your preference agreguenle walnut in very small pieces not in the cake or decorate it with them when you are already ready..
Thanks i hope will be to your liking

Cinco de Mayo ideas(:

Cinco de Mayo is coming up this weekend so here are some ideas of food you guys can do for a Cinco de Mayo party. One of the things you could do is called Pico De Gallo. It is really easy to make all you do is buy some tomates, onions, jalapenos, lemos, and cilantro. Once you have that at home all you simply do is slice every thing into small peices and then put them in a bowl and squirt some lemon on there and mix it everything up.  If you do not want to go through all that trouble you can click on the link that will derect you to Walmart where you can see some store made pico de gallo you can buy.