Tres Leches Cake

Ingredients

• Cake
• 1 1/2 cups (200g) cake flour* (scoop and level to measure)
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar**
• 5 large eggs, at room temperature*
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• Milk mixture
• 1 1/4 cups (295ml) milk (anything but skim)
• 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream
• 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 (12 oz) can evaporated milk
• Topping
• 2 cups (473ml) heavy cream
• 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• Fresh sliced strawberries or cinnamon, for garnish

Instructions

• For the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 13 by 9-inch or 12 by 8-inch baking dish, set aside. 
• Sift cake flour into a medium mixing bowl. Add in baking powder and salt and whisk 20 seconds, set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream together butter and sugar until very pale and fluffy.
• Mix in eggs one at a time, blending until well combined after each addition. Mix in vanilla. 
• Add in flour in 3 additions mixing just until combined after each addition. Remove mixing bowl from stand mixer and scape down sides and bottom of bowl and fold until evenly incorporated. 
• Pour batter into prepared baking dish and spread into an even layer (it will seem like a thin layer).
• Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 24 – 28 minutes. 
• Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack, about 45 minutes. Once cool pierce cake many times all over with a long-pronged fork.
• For the milk mixture: In a large mixing bowl whisk together milk, 1/2 cup heavy cream, the sweetened condensed milk and the evaporated milk until blended.
• Pour evenly over cake then cover and chill at least 6 hours*** or up to 3 days.
• For the topping: In a large mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer (or using the stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment) whip heavy cream until soft peaks form. 
• Add in sugar and vanilla and whip until stiff peaks form. Spread over chilled cake. 
• Cut cake into slices and serve cold garnished with strawberries or dust with cinnamon if desired. Store cake in refrigerator.