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Tres Leches

Tres Leches: what it is and where to eat it

A sponge cake soaked in a mixture of three types of milk, often topped with whipped cream.

12 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
Latin American

Typical ingredients

  • sponge cake
  • evaporated milk
  • condensed milk
  • heavy cream

History of the dish

Nicaragua · 19th century

tres leches cake
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Origin
Nicaragua
Dates from
19th century
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A tres leches cake (lit. 'three-milk cake'; Spanish: pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches), also known as dulce de tres leches (lit. 'three-milk sweet'), pan tres leches (lit. 'three-milk bread') or simply tres leches (lit. 'three milks'), is a Latin American sponge cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and whole milk.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Tres leches cake” · version used · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources: Wikidata (CC0) · Wikipedia

Where to eat it

London

Geneva

Genoa

Barcelona

Málaga

Seville

Bratislava

Vienna

Zadar

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