Help!!!!!! Tres Leches With Spectatcular Look-Need Ideas!!!!
Decorating By rhopar33 Updated 6 Feb 2007 , 11:51am by Lazy_Susan
Ok, I just got a request for a tres leches cake for 20 people. It is for a Spanish themed party. Heres my problem:
1) I've never made a tres leches cake
2) The client said it should be spectacular but not too pricey.
Now, hopefully I can lay hands on a good tres leches recipe (I'll take suggestions). But, can you guys help me with an idea for a spanish theme. It only needs to feed 20 people so I don't need to do anything big. Any ideas?
Gracias!
sorry i have a recipe but it's in spanish i can probably translate it for you but decorating depends on what icing you use i hear all they use on these type of cake is whipped cream no bc and you can't decorate much with that sorry i'm not much help but i have that recipe i can translate it if you want
forgot try cake central español a lot of the girl speak english also
there are recipes for it on this site just check the recipe tab and put in what you are looking for. This cake is not very good with regular buttercream. It is usually iced with whipped cream or pastry pride. With the pastry pride you can do some decorating.
I did a bunch of tres leches cakes for a cinco de mayo party last year. I tried out three recipes and asked hubby co-workers which was their favorite. The one I used was from texascooking.com. It's the same as one of the recipes here, but it's half the liquid you pour on top. Half the liquid was plenty and I have a hard time imagining adding much more.
Since I made mine for a potluck party I just baked and brought mine in the disposable aluminum pans. If you want a better presentation you will need something with a rim to hold in the liquid because it will seep out. For icing I used 4 cups of heavy cream with a box of instant pudding mix and whipped that up. It was easy to use and I was able to pipe borders with it. You can mak it stiffer by reducing the cream, but the ratio is pretty good.
Apparently the traditional way tres leches is served is with whipped topping and fresh fruit. I can't get the greatest fresh fruit here in May, but I did manage to find some decent strawberries and kiwis and paired that with some canned mandarin oranges. I did different designs on each cake and they looked great when done, but more importantly once people started eating it and raving about it, it was gone in no time.
Don't know if this is any help but found this on google:
http://es.treklens.com/gallery/North_America/Mexico/photo144127.htm
A tres leches cake is a cake that is so soak in milk it ends up pudding-like, thats why you serve it Pyrex like container.
You can have the flavors of a tres leches by adding just enough of the milk mixture to your regular cake and cover it the same way you always do, or better yet, with a meringue base butter cream, you cant put too much milk or the cake will bleed
Now about the Spanish theme, Im not sure what you mean, tres leches is a desert from Peru, for a Spanish meaning from Spain, as in Matadors and Flamenco, or Spanish meaning from Latino America, meaning decorating with exotic flowers, and bright colors
Hi!
I've never made that kind of cake before but here is a link to a cake I decorated that has whipped cream frosting. Actually it's a White Chocolate Whipped cream frosting with White chocolate shavings on the sides.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Lazy_Susan&cat=0&pos=26
HTH,
Lazy_Susan
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