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!!!
@@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 🤷🏻♀️
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 and salt, unless you're using salted butter which I do, then you can skip adding salt or just add a pinch) 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!
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
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.
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. 😖
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 🤤
@@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!
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.
For the folks complaining this isn't a "hack"? She's talking about the straw, which is hollow, and the fruit on top. Honestly, people will complain about ANYTHING!
My mom did this all the time when I was a kid. I’ve been making my cakes this way. The only thing we don’t do is add the whipped cream or fruit. We just poke holes and do the condensed milk right on top. Love these types of cakes!!
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
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! ❤
@@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!
@@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.
Ma'am please pay homage. Stop presenting this as a revolutionary hack just because you threw a kiwi on top. Tres Leches has been in the culture for a very long time with berries as ganish. NOT A HACK🙄🧐🤷
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 😊
‼️😡Hack?!?! Not gonna lie I WAS TRIGGER! Give the props to the Latin American cuisine where it originated!!! 💡This is a Tres Leches Cake with fruit on top. It is a permanent fixture in all of Latin American cuisine since the beginning of time. While there is some lively debate on whether Nicaragua is the birthplace of this milky cake, the general consensus is that Mexico holds the strongest claim to that honor.💝
There are people saying really bad things about her so I want to clarify two things. The hack is the straw part, and traditional tres leches is not made by poking holes with a straw. And for other saying, she claims she invented this technique, the title literally says she just learned implying that she did not invent it, but learned it from somewhere else. If you already knew this, but she is saying she learned it and a lot of other people don’t know this as well so she is showing it for the people who don’t know.
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 ❤
Hint: She knows it's tres leches. It's called CLICKBAIT. Still not sure what that means? She puts a dumb title and everyone comments to "correct" her. I can't believe people still fall for this.
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
Me reading the comments thinking 🤔 😅😂! I thought it was a nice hack but thanks y’all for letting us know it’s a Latino recipe, I appreciate culture and its foods and I see why every comment it’s calling her out. She might as well given the props to the Latina community 😂 I will make sure to tell my kids I made a Latina cake 🎂 😋🇬🇧🫰🏾
I wish videos like this would actually show you the finished product. Been noticing a lot of that lately. They dont ever let you actually see the finished product. I need more than a quarter of a second to see what was made at the end. 😢
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...
This is why gate keeping is important. There’s no way she just randomly put all these things together at the correct proportions by accident. But what do I know.
Pretty Cake 😍 I want that for my next birthday. Every year I get a Tres Leches cake from the supermarket but there are so many weird extra ingredients now, so my sis said she would make it from scratch next time. Pina Colada ice-cream goes well with it, too.
These people in the comments saying she called it the wrong thing, would probably be crying “appropriation” had she called it what you wanted her too. Why can’t people just share how they make their food without being ripped apart in the comments. Y’all don’t gotta eat it, so why complain. 🙄😅
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.
*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!
Take some strawberries and macerate them with some sugar. Poke your holes however you like, add your milks but with the evaporated milk mix the juice from the macerated strawberries. Layer the drained berries with banana slices and top with the whipped cream. Put some cherries and crushed peanuts on top. Banana split tres leches cake, my local HEB used to sell fresh made 😊
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.
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....
It’s better if all 3 milks are incorporated well; especially because of the viscosity of the condensed milk. Some vanilla would be great as well. Also, the holes on the pound cake do NOT have to be that big at all. Lastly, a hack for the fastest ways is to sart with a SareLee (or any store-bought pound cake)
That isn't a hack that's tres leches cake and you are supposed to cool the cake completely, poke holes in the cake with a fork, use whole milk, mix the milks before pouring over the cake making sure the edges get enough, chill in the fridge for at least an hour for the cake to soak up the milk before finally topping with whipped cream and fruit
For some reason I thought she was going to put it bake into the oven to let all that milk evaporate into the cake but the cake is already done. It looks great after the whipped topping and fruit was put on it but I bet the cake is soggy and mushy
Soo this is a variation on a cake I make for my birthday, a "hot fudge cake" aka a chocolate poke cake. 1. Bake a German Chocolate cake mix per instructions on the box. When it is out of the oven and slightly cooled, use a wooden spoon to poke holes like she did. 3. Poor a can of sweetened condensed milk And a can of hot fudge. 4. Generous layer of coolwhip on top. Put in the fridge to chill slightly before serving so it doesn't fall apart. That is where I stop but I've seen people drizzle things on the top like more fudge and/or caramel. Or crush oreos on top. It's whatever you like really. The "Summer" version is more what she did. A yellow cake except I just use strawberries. Poor the crushed strawberries like you use for strawberry short cake into the holes, layer with coolwhip and add fresh cut on top!! :)
Hacks 😐🫢. Ma'am Latinos have been making this for a very long time! Also, you need to warm up the milks & condense milk as well, so that they blend well. It's called Tres leche. 3 milk. The audacity to ruin other cultures' foods & not warm up the thing that needed to be heated
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
I'm so sick of people calling everyday deserts hacks🙄 I'm black and from Texas. I know a Tres Leches Cake when I see one. Shout out to the Latino's that bake these beautiful tasty cakes.
I was happy when I came to the comments and others were saying this was a tres leches. But along with the others, mix the three milks! Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and have a good time.
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 🙃
Three milks. 1.-2% fat 2.-Condensed milk(usually sweetened) 3.-Evaporated milsuperset. sweet. Because a lot of water is removed from it, it is naturally thicker. Has body.)
She knows it’s tres leches. She just gave the video a vague, clickbaity title in hopes that people would be annoyed enough to flood the comments section. So, ya’ll are just giving her what she wants.
OMG!! That's NOT how you are supposed to make it!! 😱😱😱😭 Latinos getting offended in 3..2...1!! Tres leches cake is much more than that, the process is much more elaborated.
