Mexican Tres leches Bundt Cake
Fluffy, light, and soaked with sweet milk, the popular Mexican tres leches cake just melts in your mouth!

- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1+1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1+1/2 cup sugar
- 6 Eggs
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 3 cup flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 1/4 cup milk
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- 2
Lightly grease a bundt cake pan and set aside.
- 3
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until it lightens in color.
- 4
Add 3 eggs to the mixture and continue beating until fully incorporated into the batter.
- 5
Add ½ cup flour and the baking powder and beat on medium speed until fully absorbed and incorporated.
- 6
Repeat the process, adding the 3 remaining eggs and beating until fully incorporated.
- 7
Then add another ½ cup flour and mix until combined.
- 8
Add the vanilla extract and ½ cup milk. Once mixed add 1 cup flour. Repeat the process with the remaining milk and flour and mix until the batter is fluffy.
- 9
Scoop the batter into the prepared bundt cake pan and put in the oven.
- 10
Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until done.
- 11
Remove from the oven and gently loosen the edges with a spatula. Turn the pan over onto a cooling rack and let it cool down for around 30 minutes.
- 12
Remove the pan and set aside.
- 13
With the help of a skewer, poke holes over the whole surface of the cake. This will allow the tres leches mixture to sink into the cake.
- 14
In a small bowl combine the sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and milk.
- 15
Slowly pour ¾ of the tres leches mixture over the cake. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- 16
Serve sliced with a drizzle of the remaining tres leches mixture.