Recipe: Perfect Dark Chocolate Tres Leche Cake

Dark Chocolate Tres Leche Cake. Place one of the cake halves on a serving plate, cut side up. Spread whipped cream over the top of the cake layer, and then top with the second cake half. Frost the top and the sides of the cake with the remaining whipped cream.

Each component of this recipe — the cake, the tres leches and the whipped cream — are all adapted from. If you haven't tried a tres leches cake, you haven't lived. This Chocolate Tres Leches Cake has the most amazing flavor ever! You can cook Dark Chocolate Tres Leche Cake using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Dark Chocolate Tres Leche Cake

1. It's 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 2 large of eggs.
4. It's 1 1/2 cup of flour (all-puropose).
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of dark chocolate cocoa powder.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of instant dry coffee.
10. It's 1/2 cup of milk.
11. You need 1/2 cup of water.
12. You need of tres leche mixture.
13. Prepare 1 can of Nestle Media Creame.
14. You need 1 can of sweetened condensed milk.
15. Prepare 1/2 cup of whole milk.
16. You need of Topping.
17. Prepare 2 can of Whipped Cream (Extra Creamy).

Made with three milks, this cake is a crowd pleaser. Served at birthday parties and major holidays, this is cake is sure to become a tradition. There is something about the taste of a Chocolate Tres Leches Cake. Use a fine-quality dark chocolate, not baking chocolate, for the garnish.

Dark Chocolate Tres Leche Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven 350°F.
2. Mix flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda and baking powder well in a bowl. Set aside..
3. Mix water, milk and instant coffee in a measuring cup. Set aside..
4. In a large mixing bowl cream butter and super for at least 5 minutes..
5. Add one egg at at time until both are incorporated..
6. Slowly add dry ingredients. Alternating dry, milk mixture, dry, milk mixture, until all are incorporated well..
7. Pour batter into 2- 9 in round baking pans or cupcake pans with liners..
8. Bake cupcakes 18-20 minutes at 350° or 2- 9 in round cake pans for 22-28 minutes at 350°.
9. While baking, mix Media Creame, condensed milk and whole milk in large measuring cup. Place in fridge till needed..
10. Let cake cool completely. Poke multiple holes in cake from top to bottom using a tooth pick or butter knife..
11. Pour cold 3 milk mixture over entire cake or 1 1/2 tsp per cupcake. Let soak to bottom..
12. Put whipped cream topping on entire cake or each cupcake. Refrigerate until needed or enjoy right then!.

Or substitute milk or white chocolate, if you prefer. Have an extra mason jar or two on hand, in case you have enough cake rounds or scraps and filling to make more servings. Use a cooler to transport the cakes to a potluck or other gathering. This chocolate tres leches cake though. First off, it makes it much easier to slice and hold it's shape.