Maybe this is a young cook, and is just learning about this type of cake. I was in my 50s and my Latina neighbor brought me this WONDERFUL cake, and this has been my fav cake EVER!
@@unaluna3546 who's the real dodo? Us, who are making a point clear, or the woman in the video, who should have made that point clear since the beginning? You gringos think you are the best thing in the world, always "discovering" things that have existed like forever in other parts of the world. It's not the first time. And that trick is not new either, I learned it like 10 years ago, SUPER DODO 😂
Latinos been making 3 Leches since the beginning of Time LOL! Yes combine all 3 together and vanilla and mix well and then pour it will taste better when it's all incorporated!!!
Ma’am please mix the three leches (milks) together FIRST as well as vanilla extract and then pour it over the cake. For an adults only cake add rum to the three milk mixture 🤤
@@marketatomlinson2144 tres leches is wet but if the cake is done correctly, it should not end up falling apart and soggy! In my opinion, the wetter, the better 🤤
@@kandykane2160 Most if not all people who make that cake poke holes in them. Myself included. Unless the hack is using the straws to poke the holes 🤷🏻♀️
Thank God she explained what she was doing for every piece of fruit she laid down, because otherwise I never would have known she was placing a blueberry.
I make tres leches with coconut milk (condensed, regular and cream) and add pineapple juice from canned pineapple chunks. Omg, it tastes so tropical, it’s become my family’s favorite!
@@shellieraw10 Absolutely! Cake: I buy the Betty Crocker vanilla boxed cake but make it differently than the instructions: 1. Separate the egg whites and egg yolks. I beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until it forms stiff peaks. Set aside. This step adds “air” into the cake mixture and will give it a more sponge-like consistency so it can absorb the coconut milk, which is thicker than regular milk 2. Mix the wet ingredients for the cake (yolks, water, vegetable oil) with the mixer until creamy. Add the cake mix little by little. Once completely mixed. Set mixer aside and use a flat spatula to fold in the egg whites. Once everything is mixed. Cook in the oven according to the box instructions. For the tres leches mixture: -1 can of coconut condensed milk -1 250ml box on the A-ROY D coconut milk (this one I super creamy and acts like the “cream” in the tres leches mix) this brand is available in most Asian stores or Amazon if there’s no Asian store nearby -1 can of the “Thai kitchen” brand coconut lite milk (this is more liquidity and acts like the evaporated milk in the mix) this you can find in most supermarkets -1/4 cup of pineapple juice from the “Dole no sugar added” pineapple can. Lightly mix all milks and pineapple juice with a whisk. Do it gently as whisking too harshly will cause the fats in the coconut milks to emulsify and get thick, then it won’t absorb into the cake. Another tip is to only let the cake cool to only room temperature, if you put it in the fridge, it gets too cold and the cold temperature makes the coconut milk mixture thicken since fats harden in cold temperatures, then it won’t absorb either. Do not remove the cake from the mold, poke holes all along the cake with a fork. Then pour the tres leches mix uniformly all over the cake. Then you can let it cool in the fridge and serve it chilled!! I like to make a coconut whipped cream to go on top: 1 L box of coconut cream (I like the A-ROY D brand, comes in a white box) About 1/2 cup of powder sugar (or more to taste) Let the coconut cream chill in the fridge for about two days. Once chilled take out of the fridge but do not shake. After being in the fridge, the coconut cream will separate. All the cream and fat will float to the top and the bottom will have a coconut water type of liquid. This part can get messy but cut the top of the box to ensure you can get the top fat and take it out and pour over a chilled glass bowl (I put a bowl in the freezer for 15-20 minutes before getting started). Then beat the coconut cream with an electric mixer and add the powder sugar little by little. If it’s too thick you can add some of the liquid that stayed at the bottom, but do it little by little as there is no turning back if you add too much lol. There are tons of tutorials on RUclips that I followed when I wanted to learn how to make coconut whipped cream. Hope you enjoy and let me know if you end up making it!
For those saying it's the straw "hack," my mom was using wooden spoon handles for cakes back in the 70s. Those were the Jello soaked cakes. Still nothing new. Instead of milks, use flavored Jello. Then, also flavor the whip topping with jello for the icing. Was always so pretty.
@@anthonythorp7291 wowww… you are just blowing my soul with all of this useless obvious knowledge! Thanks for putting on your crusty cape captain obvious 🙄. What would the world do without those 10 tiny brain cells running amok in your obvious dome? ? We may NEVER know…😂
@@Gibbzalicious lol. I guess people dont mind loose stools. It is a side effect on so many pharmaceuticals, maybe people even love diarrhea. Wont stop them from eating anything!
This has convinced me finally that literally anything gets called a hack by some content creators. I can't wait to see someone make an omlette and call it a hack 🙃
@@sumayarafaali237 oh yeah... flat tacos. I forgot that. It was one of my mom's favorites. Flat heated corn tortilla, some fresh refried beans on top, cheese, lettuce, pico, salsa. Let's see... what did she call it? Oh yeah... A tostada!
Depends on the cake. Normally I only use butter, but I have a citrus tea ring (made in a bundt pan) that uses oil and it's amazing, so moist and not oily at all. Also, the chocolate cake recipe printed right on the Hershey cocoa tin is the best chocolate cake I know, and it's made with vegetable oil. People always ask me for the recipe and never believe me when I tell them the cocoa container.
My hispanic and latinos are “its not a hack its tres leches” hahaha its like that one video where latinas/hispanic mom critique rachel ray so called mexican dishes hahha 😂
@yogabbagabbs2026 THAT PART! THEY DONT KNOW THO & my Ma & cousins always used toothpicks. I knew how to make this cake by the time I was probably 5yrs old.
Always mix the milks together BEFORE dumping them on the cake. It gives the cake a way more unified taste, the sweetened condensed milk when mixed with the other two becomes a bit thinner and keeps you from ending up with gloppy pieces of cake. I'd also suggest cooking the cake a little less, this is a bit dark. Lastly, but possibly most importantly, ALWAYS sift your flour BEFORE measuring it out. You will get a far more accurate measurement, keep the cake from falling in the middle and being too dense. (You want a nice light, fluffy cake! Hence cooking it less than this one!) Once your flour is sifted and measured, sift the rest of your dry ingredients (in this case, flour, sugar, baking powder) sifting all of your dry ingredients guarantees they're more evenly distributed which is going to produce a better consistency and overall better baked good. Enjoy! Oh! And sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top!
@@leeniekat117 If I write out my whole recipe we'll be here all day, BUT, this recipe below is super close, I usually add a bit more vanilla, like two teaspoons, because vanilla makes cake delicious lol I also sift my ingredients like I mention above, and I REALLY watch my cake. You don't want it getting super brown, just so a toothpick comes out clean, or mostly clean with no wet cake batter on it. Let it cool completely! Just leave it on the counter for a couple of hours. Mix the milks together before dumping them on top. And make sure you poke holes in the corners and near the edges. When you pour the milk mixture, pour some on the sides too, where the cake meets the pan. When you make the whipped cream you can follow this recipe OR, find a recipe that tells you how to make whipped cream with vanilla syrup, (vanilla syrup is super easy to make, it's just sugar, water and vanilla). The vanilla is subtle in a whipped cream but I love it! I hope it turns out well for you!! tastesbetterfromscratch.com/tres-leches-cake/
THANK YOU! For years I have tried different recipes, and I am definitely going to give this a try! I'm 76 and it's about I'm I get one of these Tres Leche cakes really good! I love the way you did the fruit placement! It's o beautiful!
I think it spreads better and more eventually this way because of the thickness of the evaporated milk don't know if that the case but I believe that's ones of the reasons why
@@barefootkid592.0it’s not meant to be soggy. True tres leches cake is made with an extremely dry dough. The milks should be condensed milk, evaporated milk ( or rehydrated milk powder) and rice milk. The cake is so dry that when it takes in the milk, it soaks and remoists. It should be creamy, not running through with the milks spilling and being sloppy. I’m old school I remember eating tres leches cakes in Harlem in the 90s and they were not wet or soggy at all. It was magical!
@@barefootkid592.0 if all you’ve ever had is soggy tres leches cake, I can see why you wouldn’t like it. I’ve had soggy and dry tres leches cake and both were a real disappointment. A well made tres leches cake isn’t soggy at all. It has a creamy texture and tastes heavenly. If you have any Mexican friends, get them to take you to a Mexican restaurant with a good tres leches cake. Or even better, to their mom or grandma’s house to try theirs. It will change your view entirely.
@@falischika6221 So black people also make a dense cake which they pour the different kinds of milk and call it poke cake? I'm not black, and I call cakes with holes poked in it for pudding or jello poke cakes. If it's a dense cake with 3 kinds of milk poured on top, it's a tres leches cake.
@@MargaritaOnTheRox Yes. Also this style of making the cake is popular with Arabs and I’ve never heard them calling it tres leches. People can make the same dishes but have different names for it.
My granny taught me too. She called it a poke cake and only used evaporated/condensed milk. I’m excited to try it the traditional Latino way, Tres Leches. I never knew about it until I read the comment section here.
My grandma taught me to make choc icing and pull it off ,so it's like a thick chocolate syrup and we always poked holes in the cake it goes in the cake over the cake , it's Sooo good
Do this same step with putting holes in a yellow cake (btw my Mom and i did this back in the 1970's😂)... Instead of the milk.... You can use Cherry Jellow (fallow the directions on the package) to pour over the cake and then refridgerate over night. Add on the topping and A can of Cherry Pie filling on top. She also made it with Chocolate Pudding. Both were so good!
My mom did Jello poke cakes growing up... Funfetti or vanilla cake and strawberry jello topped with cool whip and kept I. The fridge was Soo Good in the summer ❤
My mom makes this but instead of fruit she smashes Hershey's Symphony chocolate bars up and sprinkles that all over the top. It's been my birthday cake since I was a little girl and I STILL have her make it for me in my 40s lol
@@christeef6840@christeef6840 you won't be disappointed! My mom used a German chocolate cake mix. Condensed milk and caramel sauce poured all over after you poke the holes. Then whipped cream (or cool whip? I think?) And the smashed up candy bar on top! You'll never be able to eat a regular cake ever again lol! It's that good 😊
Churrascos restaurant in Houston has the platinum standard Tres Leches cake. I've sampled lots of them, and no one comes close to theirs. They used to publish a cook book with the recipe in it. Cordúa: Foods of the Americas
Back in the 80’s (?), there was a pudding commercial where they poured the pudding over the top of the holes, then refrigerated it. When the pudding set up, you’d add frosting. It was a very good and moist cake.
Really? Hmmm. I didn't think she acted like that at all? All I got from this is showing us a different way of a yellow cake for something different. Gotta admit- you don't hear much about the Tres Leche cake recipe being "ALL THE RAGE" OR "TRENDING CAKE RECIPE" OR "THE VIRAL CAKE SENSATION YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF!" She didn't present the cake as if she invented the wheel?! So maybe? Cut her some slack...? Ya gotta say the all that yummy fruit really makes the cake look even more beautiful, not to mention SCRUMPTIOUS! 🥝🍓🫐 I'll take it that way over canned icing anyday! 😉 Anyway...just my humble opinion...I just TRY to live my life NOT constantly judging or critiquing others...Don't we ALL need a little grace & kindness every now & then? Well...I mean tbh we all could use them more than every now & then (at least I know I could!) But seems more & more the people of today's world could never be nice & complimentary all the time! THO THEY expect to be treated in that manner, but rarely would they treat others the same way they themselves expect to be treated. And these very same people will complain that it's nothing like it used to be.... And on that they are 110% correct. Back in days of old, people were kind to one another, they helped one another out, women built up other women, they didn't constantly tear them down. Wish I could've experienced that world....those ways. How refreshing it must've been. Such a shame too, bc that's EXACTLY what this world needs, AND what our children need to learn. But they'll never learn it from most of the people nowadays. They're our future...and what's gonna happen when all they know is to nitpick, judge & criticize everyone? And know nothing about a kind word, a helping hand, or just a smile can make serious changes? We'll be leaving them a world that's even more of a cold, rude, hostile AND a lonely place...THAT'S NOT the legacy we should be passing down to our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren....so on & so forth....but again...just my humble opinion. 😊 Be Blessed! ❤
How is everyone *not* over everything being a "hack" yet?? I never thought anything would be worse than the *"EXTREME!"* phase, but all of these people claiming nearly everything they do is a "hack" have proven me wrong. 😖
Wait wait wait... made I'm new to baking excellent cakes, lol . regular box cake gal over here. 😌 Do you mind telling me more about this chocolate cake mouth watering dessert? Please and thanks 🙏🏿
I concur with the others who recommended the RUclips channel “Garden Answer”. Laura & Aaron are wonderfully talented & have a gorgeous home & garden. I think you would really relate with their family values & work ethics.
*gasp!* it’s a tres leches cake! And it’s beeeeeutiful! The family from Guatemala I used to live with used to serve this, never saw it made. It’s lovely!
We black folk call that a poke cake. But instead of three types of milk, we use jello and fruit juice or pudding and either a white or caramel glaze on top. But this looks good too! I think every ethnicity has a version of this. Would be cool to see what each could literally bring to a table.
I grew up eating it...with jello inside.. snd dream whip ...aka cool whip.. mixed with pudding on top..but I refuse to eat tres leches..soggy and gag inducing
That's the idea. Its Tres Leche. It tastes like ice cream and cake mixed together, but with ice cream completely melted. Its great. You should try it if you like ice cream with your cake.
It’s better if u mix all the wet liquids together first cus it makes it a little difficult for the light weight liquids to get through condensed milk. Hope that helps
Ngl I would've just taken the whole tray of fruits and just dumped them over onto the cake and let them be wherever they fall. 2 types of people in the world.
Forr lactose intolerant folks, u can use lactaid, non-dairy dry milk (rehydrate as directed, add powdered sugar and bring to a boil to make condensed milk, if its not as thick as reg condensed, mix equal parts corn starch and water together and add bit by bit til the right consistency is achieved) almond and or oat milk!
@@DeborahHudgens how? The recipe i use is literally for lactose intolerant folk.. my stomach don't bubble at all with this and all it takes is 2 bites of anything with regular milk in it to make me look 7 months pregnant and projectile vomit...
She didn't let YOU see it? She let all the rest of us see. Maybe she's mad at you or doesn't like you so she didn't let you see the rest. She even let the rest of us taste a sample, it was yummy.
In the 80s, after we poked holes in a sheetcake, we'd poor Jell-O over the cake, cover it with pudding, then cover that with whipped cream and fruit. I played with flavors and settled on cherry jello, then juicy pineapple slices, then vanilla pudding and whipped cream. 😋 Thanks for the tip with the condensed milk! A new way to play. 😊👍 ✌️💜💚❤️💡
No. It's a tres leches cake, not a poke cake. You can't just use a regular cake recipe or it's not going to come out good. You'll have to look up a tres leches recipe to make a cake that will hold up to milk.
@@MargaritaOnTheRoxlots of countries will have similar dishes with the names varying from country to country. Hispanics call this cake tres leches, black peoples call it poke cake. Like how Indians call their bread naan, Caribbeans will call it Roti, and East Africans will call it Chapati.
People are claiming the "hack" is poking holes with a straw, but if it was, she shouldve structured the video *_way_* differently. She makes it seem like the cake is the hack when she never brings up the straw or holes again. This is just a recipe for tres leches
Forget all that milk stuff, shoot some pudding, chocolate or vanilla your choice, into the holes, layer the rest on top, than put a layer of whipped cream on top the pudding, chill about a 4hrs or over night for dessert the next day, when serving your choice as is or drizzle warm fudge over a piece and enjoy.... It tastes great and not soggy like it comes out using all those milk products....
@tanicatonnie7944 I know sweetie and my grandchildren love it, I personally rather have it with pudding, perfectly moist and flavorful 👍 to each their own taste....
Its not a hack. Its tres leches
LMAO, this is not a new hack. It's a traditional Mexican treat.
@@TheresaG21 Correction: Latin American.
Maybe this is a young cook, and is just learning about this type of cake. I was in my 50s and my Latina neighbor brought me this WONDERFUL cake, and this has been my fav cake EVER!
SHE WAS TALKIN ABOUT THE STRAW TECHNIQUE DODO
@@unaluna3546 who's the real dodo? Us, who are making a point clear, or the woman in the video, who should have made that point clear since the beginning? You gringos think you are the best thing in the world, always "discovering" things that have existed like forever in other parts of the world. It's not the first time. And that trick is not new either, I learned it like 10 years ago, SUPER DODO 😂
Latinos been making 3 Leches since the beginning of Time LOL! Yes combine all 3 together and vanilla and mix well and then pour it will taste better when it's all incorporated!!!
By my count, this is a 4 leche cake: condensed milk, evaporated milk, 2% milk, and whipped cream. Yum.
I like your idea. Thanks!
Yes! Pouring separately the cake will absorb unevenly. 🫤 Some areas will be too sweet others not sweet enough.
I was like what's the hack 😂
I am British and fell in love with Tres leches cake when I was in Texas...It is now my idea of the best cake ever.
This isn't a cake "hack" - this is the glorious tres leches cake from our Latino/a friends! Delicioso! ❤
The hack was using a straw to saturate the cake .
@@lilosnow1759it makes no difference you would have to suck the cake out the straw
The black community called it the poke cake because of how moist it is
Are you 75? No one younger than that should be so dense as to think she doesn't know that. It's called CLICKBAIT FOR ENGAGEMENT.
@@projectionv.accountability1010 more like somebody who doesnt know this cake is already a thing and has been made for centuries youknow but its both
You’re suppose to mix the milk together and then pour it on the cake . It’s not a hack , it’s literally a Mexican dessert .
Ooo
Yummmmy
Puerto Rican dessert
Does it turn out soggy?
@@kathyhyams5757 it's a wet cake for sure.
😋 Delicious
Ma’am please mix the three leches (milks) together FIRST as well as vanilla extract and then pour it over the cake.
For an adults only cake add rum to the three milk mixture 🤤
Now I would try that.
It looks good but is it wet? Just curious
@@marketatomlinson2144 tres leches is wet but if the cake is done correctly, it should not end up falling apart and soggy! In my opinion, the wetter, the better 🤤
@@lolacookie453 oh okay, thanks for answering
@@marketatomlinson2144 you’re welcome! 😊
Woah! That’s a great hack! You should name it a tres leches cuz you put 3 kinds of milk in it!!
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I think the "hack" is poking holes in the cake.
@@kandykane2160 Most if not all people who make that cake poke holes in them. Myself included. Unless the hack is using the straws to poke the holes 🤷🏻♀️
MIX the milks first and add vanilla GIRL!😂😂😂 Use Mexican vanilla. It’s better.
Not if it's the fake ass Mexican.vanilla that most bakers use.
Why is Mexican vanilla better?? Just curious. 🤷🏽♀️
@@Bobbylk100 it’s just better tasting and it’s a real vanilla it’s delicious.
@@Bobbylk100Madagascar Vanilla is better tbh..and the best.
@Bobbylk100 it isn't. The most common "mexican vanilla" is not even real Vanilla, it's a brand called "Molina" and its immitation vanilla.
Thank God she explained what she was doing for every piece of fruit she laid down, because otherwise I never would have known she was placing a blueberry.
😂😂😂 I was thinking the same thing
IKR
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Right!
Hilarious.
These "hacks" are getting annoying 🙄🤦 it's a tres leches cake...
You must be new to this channel. Do yourself a favor and don’t scroll back on previous videos💀
As I was watching, I was like OK so she's making thres leches, odd she wouldn't say it, you'd figure it would help her algorithm.
Thank you
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Agreed
I make tres leches with coconut milk (condensed, regular and cream) and add pineapple juice from canned pineapple chunks. Omg, it tastes so tropical, it’s become my family’s favorite!
Could you please share the exact recipe with your ingredients and what you cook down ? Ty in advance 😊
How do you make golden cake looks delish
Taste like pina colada❤
@@shellieraw10 Absolutely!
Cake:
I buy the Betty Crocker vanilla boxed cake but make it differently than the instructions:
1. Separate the egg whites and egg yolks. I beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until it forms stiff peaks. Set aside. This step adds “air” into the cake mixture and will give it a more sponge-like consistency so it can absorb the coconut milk, which is thicker than regular milk
2. Mix the wet ingredients for the cake (yolks, water, vegetable oil) with the mixer until creamy. Add the cake mix little by little. Once completely mixed. Set mixer aside and use a flat spatula to fold in the egg whites. Once everything is mixed. Cook in the oven according to the box instructions.
For the tres leches mixture:
-1 can of coconut condensed milk
-1 250ml box on the A-ROY D coconut milk (this one I super creamy and acts like the “cream” in the tres leches mix) this brand is available in most Asian stores or Amazon if there’s no Asian store nearby
-1 can of the “Thai kitchen” brand coconut lite milk (this is more liquidity and acts like the evaporated milk in the mix) this you can find in most supermarkets
-1/4 cup of pineapple juice from the “Dole no sugar added” pineapple can.
Lightly mix all milks and pineapple juice with a whisk. Do it gently as whisking too harshly will cause the fats in the coconut milks to emulsify and get thick, then it won’t absorb into the cake.
Another tip is to only let the cake cool to only room temperature, if you put it in the fridge, it gets too cold and the cold temperature makes the coconut milk mixture thicken since fats harden in cold temperatures, then it won’t absorb either.
Do not remove the cake from the mold, poke holes all along the cake with a fork. Then pour the tres leches mix uniformly all over the cake. Then you can let it cool in the fridge and serve it chilled!!
I like to make a coconut whipped cream to go on top:
1 L box of coconut cream (I like the A-ROY D brand, comes in a white box)
About 1/2 cup of powder sugar (or more to taste)
Let the coconut cream chill in the fridge for about two days. Once chilled take out of the fridge but do not shake.
After being in the fridge, the coconut cream will separate. All the cream and fat will float to the top and the bottom will have a coconut water type of liquid.
This part can get messy but cut the top of the box to ensure you can get the top fat and take it out and pour over a chilled glass bowl (I put a bowl in the freezer for 15-20 minutes before getting started). Then beat the coconut cream with an electric mixer and add the powder sugar little by little. If it’s too thick you can add some of the liquid that stayed at the bottom, but do it little by little as there is no turning back if you add too much lol. There are tons of tutorials on RUclips that I followed when I wanted to learn how to make coconut whipped cream.
Hope you enjoy and let me know if you end up making it!
@@eh1126Yumm. Do you adopt Grammaw’s ?? 🥰
My Latino friends taught me to mix all milks then pour it over. Tres leches is one of my favorite cakes ever
For those saying it's the straw "hack," my mom was using wooden spoon handles for cakes back in the 70s. Those were the Jello soaked cakes. Still nothing new. Instead of milks, use flavored Jello. Then, also flavor the whip topping with jello for the icing. Was always so pretty.
Jello poke cakes are my favorite!
Yep, Jello, pudding, or kool-aid.
@@LeahMoonbeam don't eat it, problem solved.
@@anthonythorp7291 wowww… you are just blowing my soul with all of this useless obvious knowledge! Thanks for putting on your crusty cape captain obvious 🙄. What would the world do without those 10 tiny brain cells running amok in your obvious dome? ?
We may NEVER know…😂
Yep. We called it poke cake.
For the third milk you can use coconut milk and top with toasted coconut flakes
Great idea
Thank you cause I’m lactose Bebe 😂😂😂❤❤❤
That is still too much dairy for some people! This cake will give some people terrible diarrhea!!
Worth it
@@Gibbzalicious lol. I guess people dont mind loose stools. It is a side effect on so many pharmaceuticals, maybe people even love diarrhea. Wont stop them from eating anything!
Yes mix the milks together then pour in cake! A dash of cinnamon really brings it together
This has convinced me finally that literally anything gets called a hack by some content creators. I can't wait to see someone make an omlette and call it a hack 🙃
Or viral
Ummm, ignorance is still content, I guess 🥴🙄. Just like the "hack of a flat taco"🙄🥴🤓... Ok I'll stop...smh
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@@sumayarafaali237 oh yeah... flat tacos. I forgot that. It was one of my mom's favorites. Flat heated corn tortilla, some fresh refried beans on top, cheese, lettuce, pico, salsa. Let's see... what did she call it? Oh yeah... A tostada!
I feel like people no longer understand the meaning of hack. It is very annoying.
Use butter instead of vegetable/olive oil when baking a cake or cupcakes. So much more moist & delicious!
Depends on the cake. Normally I only use butter, but I have a citrus tea ring (made in a bundt pan) that uses oil and it's amazing, so moist and not oily at all. Also, the chocolate cake recipe printed right on the Hershey cocoa tin is the best chocolate cake I know, and it's made with vegetable oil. People always ask me for the recipe and never believe me when I tell them the cocoa container.
My hispanic and latinos are “its not a hack its tres leches” hahaha its like that one video where latinas/hispanic mom critique rachel ray so called mexican dishes hahha 😂
You talkin bout mamah!
Don't say that. This Hispanic knows she's talking about the straw technique being the hack. Yall just slow AF
@yogabbagabbs2026 THAT PART! THEY DONT KNOW THO & my Ma & cousins always used toothpicks.
I knew how to make this cake by the time I was probably 5yrs old.
Mexicans don’t own recipes
Gurl... I'm Irish and I'm sitting here with a confused look on my face saying "that's not a hack, that's tres leches."
Love this internet trend of taking something that’s been around forever and calling it a “hack” like it’s a new discovery
thank you!!
I think she’s talking about using a straw to do it.
Right! 🤣🤣🤦♀️🤯
It’s called poke cake 😂😂
@@jerseylionesses maybe to white people but to the Latinos who invented it it’s called tres leches cake
Always mix the milks together BEFORE dumping them on the cake. It gives the cake a way more unified taste, the sweetened condensed milk when mixed with the other two becomes a bit thinner and keeps you from ending up with gloppy pieces of cake. I'd also suggest cooking the cake a little less, this is a bit dark. Lastly, but possibly most importantly, ALWAYS sift your flour BEFORE measuring it out. You will get a far more accurate measurement, keep the cake from falling in the middle and being too dense. (You want a nice light, fluffy cake! Hence cooking it less than this one!) Once your flour is sifted and measured, sift the rest of your dry ingredients (in this case, flour, sugar, baking powder) sifting all of your dry ingredients guarantees they're more evenly distributed which is going to produce a better consistency and overall better baked good.
Enjoy! Oh! And sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top!
I'm sure she used a box cake. She said, "Golden cake" which is a boxed cake flavor 😊
Thank you for posting and sharing your suggestions for this "POKE CAKE"😊🌹
Ok I need your recipe start to finish!
@@leeniekat117 If I write out my whole recipe we'll be here all day, BUT, this recipe below is super close, I usually add a bit more vanilla, like two teaspoons, because vanilla makes cake delicious lol I also sift my ingredients like I mention above, and I REALLY watch my cake. You don't want it getting super brown, just so a toothpick comes out clean, or mostly clean with no wet cake batter on it. Let it cool completely! Just leave it on the counter for a couple of hours. Mix the milks together before dumping them on top. And make sure you poke holes in the corners and near the edges. When you pour the milk mixture, pour some on the sides too, where the cake meets the pan.
When you make the whipped cream you can follow this recipe OR, find a recipe that tells you how to make whipped cream with vanilla syrup, (vanilla syrup is super easy to make, it's just sugar, water and vanilla). The vanilla is subtle in a whipped cream but I love it! I hope it turns out well for you!!
tastesbetterfromscratch.com/tres-leches-cake/
@@Queenofthegingers YOU ARE AMAZING 💙💙💙
THANK YOU! For years I have tried different recipes, and I am definitely going to give this a try! I'm 76 and it's about I'm I get one of these Tres Leche cakes really good! I love the way you did the fruit placement! It's o beautiful!
Ma'am please pay homage. Stop presenting this as a hack just because you poked holes in it. Tres Leches has been in the culture for ages. NOT A HACK🙄🧐
That’s what they do, steal lol since the beginning 😂
@@bzetu101 it's just a ""wording
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 SHE DIDN'T CLAIM IT SHE'S ONLY SHARING WHAT SHE'S SEEN BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@lotusmystichaven😂💯
@@lotusmystichavenwho is they
Why not mix the three milks together and pour all at once? It would distribute easier. Just a thought.
That's how you're supposed to make tres leches
I think it spreads better and more eventually this way because of the thickness of the evaporated milk don't know if that the case but I believe that's ones of the reasons why
Right seem like too much milk to me anyway
A good thought
@@scottjones7689I agree. One milk would be plenty.
I make the same thing, but I mix the milks together with vanilla, a pinch of sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg! So delicious!!!
OMG, that sounds amazing!
I add cinnamon too !!! It’s the best ❤❤❤
Oh, you Spicy with it!!! 😂 ❤❤❤
It’s a Latin staple called Tres Leches Cake, literally means 3 milks.
What kinds of different milk is this? 😊
You didn't show the finished product long enough! Really wanted to see the cut slice for a few seconds longer, looks delicious
She couldn't wait to eat it😂😂😂
She inhaled it!😂
I'm Puerto Rican.This is howca Tres Leche cake is made.❤
ok, so.... what is tres leche? What do the holes do? Is the milk to soften or add flavor? Do you freeze each layer poured before pouring the next one?
@@emo516Tre leche means 3 milks in Spanish yes it makes cake moist and sweet
Noooo, I'm Puerto Rican too and the 3 types of milk have to be mixed first... Mi abuela is rolling in her grave rn!!!
Turned out to be beautiful. Those fruits looked so pretty. Like a Mosaic look.
I love Tres Leches cake when it’s done well. It has the creamiest texture of any cake I’ve ever eaten!
I will never understand why people like soggy cake 🤮
@@barefootkid592.0it’s not meant to be soggy. True tres leches cake is made with an extremely dry dough. The milks should be condensed milk, evaporated milk ( or rehydrated milk powder) and rice milk. The cake is so dry that when it takes in the milk, it soaks and remoists. It should be creamy, not running through with the milks spilling and being sloppy.
I’m old school I remember eating tres leches cakes in Harlem in the 90s and they were not wet or soggy at all. It was magical!
@@barefootkid592.0 if all you’ve ever had is soggy tres leches cake, I can see why you wouldn’t like it. I’ve had soggy and dry tres leches cake and both were a real disappointment. A well made tres leches cake isn’t soggy at all. It has a creamy texture and tastes heavenly. If you have any Mexican friends, get them to take you to a Mexican restaurant with a good tres leches cake. Or even better, to their mom or grandma’s house to try theirs. It will change your view entirely.
1. Gorgeous nails!
2. Thank you for pronouncing fruit correctly!
Love Tres Leches cake and this looks amazing ❤
Always had these at old school black churches as a child. Usually a granny from the Mother's board would make poke cakes ❤❤❤
That’s the name ! Thank you, couldn’t think of the name.
It's tres leches. That's why she said "for our third milk...."
@@MargaritaOnTheRoxyou call it tres leches, Blacks call it poke cake.
@@falischika6221 So black people also make a dense cake which they pour the different kinds of milk and call it poke cake?
I'm not black, and I call cakes with holes poked in it for pudding or jello poke cakes. If it's a dense cake with 3 kinds of milk poured on top, it's a tres leches cake.
@@MargaritaOnTheRox Yes. Also this style of making the cake is popular with Arabs and I’ve never heard them calling it tres leches.
People can make the same dishes but have different names for it.
Always poke holes if you're pouring anything on the cake other than icing! My grandma taught me that lonnng ago! 💕 miss her so much 😢
My granny taught me too. She called it a poke cake and only used evaporated/condensed milk. I’m excited to try it the traditional Latino way, Tres Leches. I never knew about it until I read the comment section here.
Send your love she’ll receive it ❤ and wish for her to be well and free :) and be happy too, knowing she isn’t gone ☺️
My grandma taught me to make choc icing and pull it off ,so it's like a thick chocolate syrup and we always poked holes in the cake it goes in the cake over the cake , it's Sooo good
Do this same step with putting holes in a yellow cake (btw my Mom and i did this back in the 1970's😂)...
Instead of the milk....
You can use Cherry Jellow (fallow the directions on the package) to pour over the cake and then refridgerate over night. Add on the topping and A can of Cherry Pie filling on top.
She also made it with Chocolate Pudding. Both were so good!
Yes this cake is called Tres Leches cake. One of my favorite cakes ever . It's a Spanish cake recipe. ❤❤❤❤
And I thought that Yanks liked sugar,thank heaven for some fruit.
What is the cake made with?
uh...Mexican cake
It's A Mexican dessert, Spanish is Spain 🤦♀️😂🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@teridumbrigue7643 i grew up eating it in Chile in the 60s-early 70s.
Tres leches is one of my favorite cakes. Thank you for this recipe.
Three milkshakes 🥛 is a Latin recipe for years , and I don’t like fruit a lot 😅
Omg I had tres leches cake for the first time yesterday without the fruit tho !!! It was sooooo moist and yummmm
This is a “Tres Leches” cake and normally doesn’t have fruits over. Sometimes you can put powdered cinnamon (a little bit)
Seriously? She's calling Tre leches a new school hack? Lady, Lady, lady...why?!!!😩😩😩 The lack of respect
This 🎉😂
She's talking about using a straw to poke holes in the cake.
It's called CLICKBAIT.
Well it's new to must of us and it is a hack to make box cake better
Give her some credit for the beautiful fruit art which is a more unique touch.
My Mom made Poke Cakes all the time. She would use pudding to cover it and it was so good!! Yellow cake with chocolate pudding was My Favorite!! 😍
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My mom did Jello poke cakes growing up... Funfetti or vanilla cake and strawberry jello topped with cool whip and kept I. The fridge was Soo Good in the summer ❤
Jello Gelitan was another poke cake filler It's really good too.😋
@@vnette9777that was my favorite cake growing up. Would ask for it each year on my birthday. 😍
Tres leches is the way to go!
My mom makes this but instead of fruit she smashes Hershey's Symphony chocolate bars up and sprinkles that all over the top. It's been my birthday cake since I was a little girl and I STILL have her make it for me in my 40s lol
Whaaattt?! I love this candy bar!! Now I have to try this. Lol 😍
@@christeef6840@christeef6840 you won't be disappointed! My mom used a German chocolate cake mix. Condensed milk and caramel sauce poured all over after you poke the holes. Then whipped cream (or cool whip? I think?) And the smashed up candy bar on top! You'll never be able to eat a regular cake ever again lol! It's that good 😊
@@abbyroach205 Abby, that cake sounds like heaven! The sort of thing that you wouldn't mind actually turning another year older for!!
Ok girl! U need to have your mom upload a video on tiktok or Instagram becauuuuuussse as a chocolate lover this sounds amazing! 🤤
@@jameswalker68I like your thinking! This just might replace my chocolate french silk pie.
Yummy this so delicious 🤤😋
This is my favorite cake! I didnt know tres leches was so easy to make.
Churrascos restaurant in Houston has the platinum standard Tres Leches cake. I've sampled lots of them, and no one comes close to theirs. They used to publish a cook book with the recipe in it. Cordúa: Foods of the Americas
@modsquad8u Okay!
Back in the 80’s (?), there was a pudding commercial where they poured the pudding over the top of the holes, then refrigerated it. When the pudding set up, you’d add frosting. It was a very good and moist cake.
It's called a poke cake
Now they just add a cup of pudding in the cake mix.
It's not the same as pouring pudding into poked holes.
@@AdmiringFlamingoBirds-bc7np It's better
I still make it especially in the summer we always call it jello cake
YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL BAKER!!
Three types of milk used...just that you need to mix all three prior pouring it over the cake. So congratulations you just made Tres Leches
Exactly 💯 🎉
Thank you 😊 she acts like she invented something new
Really? Hmmm. I didn't think she acted like that at all? All I got from this is showing us a different way of a yellow cake for something different. Gotta admit- you don't hear much about the Tres Leche cake recipe being "ALL THE RAGE" OR "TRENDING CAKE RECIPE" OR "THE VIRAL CAKE SENSATION YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF!" She didn't present the cake as if she invented the wheel?! So maybe? Cut her some slack...? Ya gotta say the all that yummy fruit really makes the cake look even more beautiful, not to mention SCRUMPTIOUS!
🥝🍓🫐 I'll take it that way over canned icing anyday! 😉 Anyway...just my humble opinion...I just TRY to live my life NOT constantly judging or critiquing others...Don't we ALL need a little grace & kindness every now & then? Well...I mean tbh we all could use them more than every now & then (at least I know I could!) But seems more & more the people of today's world could never be nice & complimentary all the time! THO THEY expect to be treated in that manner, but rarely would they treat others the same way they themselves expect to be treated. And these very same people will complain that it's nothing like it used to be.... And on that they are 110% correct. Back in days of old, people were kind to one another, they helped one another out, women built up other women, they didn't constantly tear them down.
Wish I could've experienced that world....those ways. How refreshing it must've been. Such a shame too, bc that's EXACTLY what this world needs, AND what our children need to learn. But they'll never learn it from most of the people nowadays. They're our future...and what's gonna happen when all they know is to nitpick, judge & criticize everyone? And know nothing about a kind word, a helping hand, or just a smile can make serious changes? We'll be leaving them a world that's even more of a cold, rude, hostile AND a lonely place...THAT'S NOT the legacy we should be passing down to our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren....so on & so forth....but again...just my humble opinion. 😊
Be Blessed! ❤
@@dragonflyy000… I’m not reading this whole thing but hey, I’m happy for you!
My favorite cake ❤ I love tres leches
How is everyone *not* over everything being a "hack" yet?? I never thought anything would be worse than the *"EXTREME!"* phase, but all of these people claiming nearly everything they do is a "hack" have proven me wrong. 😖
Looks like a bunch of mexicans Tryin to give their self airs to me. 😂😂😂😂😂 ( also looks like one Soggy “cake” too)
Lol,right tres leches at every Mexican party I've been to.
Tres leche. Best cake ever
OH my God that looks so good I didn't know whether to eat it or hang it on a wall as a work of art
Every Hispanic/Spanish person loves this cake. 3 leches. Fire
Not true.
@@olgahernandez6792 pretty accurate.
@@olgahernandez6792agreed wet cake 🤮
Chocolate cake, condensed milk, caramel then whipped cream frosting. To die for!
OHHH MYY GODD!!❤❤❤DEFINITELY TRYING THIS!!
Yes! Best poke cake ever!
Wait wait wait... made I'm new to baking excellent cakes, lol . regular box cake gal over here. 😌
Do you mind telling me more about this chocolate cake mouth watering dessert? Please and thanks 🙏🏿
Too much sugr
@@DebbieOguin-t2g so don’t make it 🤷🏻♀️
I concur with the others who recommended the RUclips channel “Garden Answer”. Laura & Aaron are wonderfully talented & have a gorgeous home & garden. I think you would really relate with their family values & work ethics.
*gasp!* it’s a tres leches cake! And it’s beeeeeutiful! The family from Guatemala I used to live with used to serve this, never saw it made. It’s lovely!
We black folk call that a poke cake. But instead of three types of milk, we use jello and fruit juice or pudding and either a white or caramel glaze on top. But this looks good too! I think every ethnicity has a version of this. Would be cool to see what each could literally bring to a table.
Right. So basically, she made a tres leche poke cake 😂
Agree! But this is certainly Tres Leches cakes.
❤ I was thinking the same thing.
I grew up eating it...with jello inside.. snd dream whip ...aka cool whip.. mixed with pudding on top..but I refuse to eat tres leches..soggy and gag inducing
Sounds nasty! Sorry
I just don't understand how that cake cannot be just soggy, but it's amazing how it works.
That's the idea. Its Tres Leche. It tastes like ice cream and cake mixed together, but with ice cream completely melted. Its great. You should try it if you like ice cream with your cake.
@@Duchesscarml I was wondering the same thing. Thank you for your response! I will try it.
I thought the same, looks soggy city but my sweet Columbia mother in law could make the heck out of it!!
It’s not soggy… it moist!!
Looks increfibly fattening😮
Wow! U made that cake beautiful and delicious!
It’s better if u mix all the wet liquids together first cus it makes it a little difficult for the light weight liquids to get through condensed milk. Hope that helps
Thxs 😇🥰
. Nip
OK, the decorations on the cake with the fruit was superior. Good job.
Ngl I would've just taken the whole tray of fruits and just dumped them over onto the cake and let them be wherever they fall. 2 types of people in the world.
Tres Leches is my favorite! ❤
Ive been eating this yummy cake for as long as I can remember.
I'm 61 & I still love eating it. 😋
Beautiful
FK! THAT LOOKS SO FREAKING BOMB!!!!
Forr lactose intolerant folks, u can use lactaid, non-dairy dry milk (rehydrate as directed, add powdered sugar and bring to a boil to make condensed milk, if its not as thick as reg condensed, mix equal parts corn starch and water together and add bit by bit til the right consistency is achieved) almond and or oat milk!
Love this!
@@tashabanks4080 n.p.. gotta look out 4 us Lactose intolerant baddies lol 👌🏻
My stomach bubblin 😢
@@DeborahHudgens how? The recipe i use is literally for lactose intolerant folk.. my stomach don't bubble at all with this and all it takes is 2 bites of anything with regular milk in it to make me look 7 months pregnant and projectile vomit...
Coconut milk 😻
Love this tres leche cake!
Baby this is just tres leches, the staple of every Hispanic kids birthday when they just wanted chocolate 😂
LOL
Beautiful colors! 👍🏽👍🏽
Love Tres Leche!!! Big hugs from Belinda Greene
I love this cake! And you made it look beautiful ❤️
Made in Italy since forever. Called rag top cake
Mexicans make it better!
Lol I'm not even Mexican, I just wanna start some shit 😁
That looks delicious!!! Thank you!!! 😋😋😋
I could imagine losing patience and just dumping the fruit on top, bet it would still get eaten. But this looks LOVELY
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😂😂😂...agreed
That looks so delicious 😋🤤
You didn't even let me see the end results. you didn't even let me see the cake long enough after u finished.
It’s because it’s not a hack. This is a recipe called Tres Leches
try hitting the pause button
Soggy maybe
She didn't let YOU see it? She let all the rest of us see.
Maybe she's mad at you or doesn't like you so she didn't let you see the rest. She even let the rest of us taste a sample, it was yummy.
Looks light & beautiful 😍
This looks good. Unfortunately, i cant have sugar without bad consequences, but I had Tres Leches cake and from what i rememt, its amazing.
Use Allulose and make your own cake.
@@Cindy-gu3jvwhat about the sugar in the milks?
Very artistic...looks good!
Everybody's so creative!
😂
I love how she describe each fruits as she places them one by one. ❤
It's just tres leches. Congratulations on discovering fire 😔👌✨
😂😂😂
Brilliant... definitely like a work of art ❤
Looks delicious and good decoration for the topping.
Nice! I never knew how to make it. Looks good!
And my lactose intolerance would blow that cake into the next room 😂
In the 80s, after we poked holes in a sheetcake, we'd poor Jell-O over the cake, cover it with pudding, then cover that with whipped cream and fruit.
I played with flavors and settled on cherry jello, then juicy pineapple slices, then vanilla pudding and whipped cream. 😋
Thanks for the tip with the condensed milk! A new way to play. 😊👍
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No. It's a tres leches cake, not a poke cake. You can't just use a regular cake recipe or it's not going to come out good. You'll have to look up a tres leches recipe to make a cake that will hold up to milk.
@@MargaritaOnTheRox Good to know. Thanks.
@@MargaritaOnTheRoxlots of countries will have similar dishes with the names varying from country to country. Hispanics call this cake tres leches, black peoples call it poke cake. Like how Indians call their bread naan, Caribbeans will call it Roti, and East Africans will call it Chapati.
I grew up eating it the way you did..but this version is not new..its literally tres leches cake...I cant stand it
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Soggy and wet ..cringe
Looks beautiful and yummy
WOW that's awesome ❤❤❤❤❤ Yummy 🤤😋 !!!!!!!!!!
Pretty. I like plain glaze, but I'll have try tres leche.
Original hack, keep em coming just made my 53rd cake
Looks amazing!!
that looks good
This is actually cuatro leches since it has whipped cream. The original recipe has turron (meringue) on top.
We know what it is.. she’s provoking us to engage in her channel. Good or bad, it is good for her channel
I've seen similar for 4th of July, except red, white and blue. I'll have to give this a try. Thank you
It's not a usa cake it's Latino or Hispanic... as long as you know who to give the credit too we good...
@@feliciaturman2849 I do now and I will definitely do that.
LOL give credit while making a cake ? Touch grass
❤❤❤looks very pretty with the fruit and looks yummy
People are claiming the "hack" is poking holes with a straw, but if it was, she shouldve structured the video *_way_* differently. She makes it seem like the cake is the hack when she never brings up the straw or holes again. This is just a recipe for tres leches
Yummy yummy yummy It looks delicious and yummy and delicious and yummy 😋 😊 😍 😜 😀 ❤️ 😋 😊 😍 😜 😀 ❤️
OmG! A diabetics DREAM before going to HEAVEN! 😊
My thoughts Exactly!!!!!
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Such a pretty cake! ❤
Forget all that milk stuff, shoot some pudding, chocolate or vanilla your choice, into the holes, layer the rest on top, than put a layer of whipped cream on top the pudding, chill about a 4hrs or over night for dessert the next day, when serving your choice as is or drizzle warm fudge over a piece and enjoy.... It tastes great and not soggy like it comes out using all those milk products....
It’s supposed to be soggy … this is a tres leches cake… a very popular dessert in the Latin community
@tanicatonnie7944 I know sweetie and my grandchildren love it, I personally rather have it with pudding, perfectly moist and flavorful 👍 to each their own taste....
Yeah, I've had some soggy wet cake...yuck,!! I prefer pudding or you can use jello
Haha ... You can tell the difference of opinion by description. Soggy vs moist and RICH! The Latina in me goes with the authentic description. 😉
Yes...Tres Leche...❤
Beautiful Masterpiece 🎉 and Delicious 😋
Her “ WOW” convinced me to make this 😂😂😂😂😂