Baked a classic Latin American dessert Coffee Tres leches cake for my Hubby's birthday.
While baking this cake my house was full of aroma, had the feeling as if I am at Starbucks
This Tres leches cake starts with a light-and-airy sponge cake that is coffee flavored; the cake is then soaked in a combination of different types of milk and coffee and topped off with fluffy coffee or cocoa cream
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Ingredients:
For the cake:
· All-purpose flour (maida) – 1 ½ cups
· Baking powder – 1 tsp
· Curd – 1 cup
· Baking soda – ½ tsp
· Castor sugar – ¾ cup
· Vegetable 0il – ½ cup ¼ tsp
· Coffee powder – 2 tsp
For Soaking (Coffee Milk):
· Condensed milk – ½ cup
· Fresh cream – ½ cup
· Milk – 1 ½ cup
· Coffee powder – 1 tbsp
For topping:
· Whipping cream
· Cocoa powder
· Chocolate sprinklers (optional)
Method:
· Take curd in a mixing bowl and add baking soda. Give it a good mix and let it rest for 5 minutes. It will turn frothy.
· Take a mixing bowl add sugar and oil, give it a good mix with a balloon whisk. Try to incorporate more air in it.
· Now add the frothy curd mixture, coffee powder and give a good mix.
· Sift in maida along with baking powder.
· Now fold in all the ingredients slowly, but do not overmix it. Mix it until the batter is of a smooth consistency.
· At this stage you may add food colour, but it’s completely optional.
· Now pre heat the oven and pour the above batter in 8*9-inch greased baking tray, lined with a parchment paper.
· Bake the cake at 180 degrees Celsius for 25-30 minutes or until the cake is baked properly. Prick a toothpick to check. It should come out clean.
· Keep the coffee milk ready by mixing the condensed milk, fresh cream, milk and coffee powder to it.
· Once the cake is still warm prick it with a fork all over the cake and pour the coffee milk. The cake will absorb the coffee milk and make the cake very soft. Now refrigerate the cake for 30 minutes.
· Now you can top the cake with whipped cream, again refrigerate again for 30 minutes. Allow the cream to set well.
· Now garnish your cake by dusting cocoa powder on it or use sprinklers of your choice.
· Serve the cake chilled with little coffee milk in the Dessert plate.
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