Tres Leches - the "Daniel" Recipe

THE CAKE

You'll need:

1 cup of milk
2 cups of sugar
2 cups of plain flour
4 eggs
2 coffeespoons of baking powder
a bit of salt
a bit of lemon rind

Mix the 1 cups of milk hot (almost boiling) in a bowl with the 2 cups of sugar whilst stirring it with a timber spoon. Always maintaining the stirring pace, when the mix gets cooler, add the 4 egg yolks, one by one and immediately after add the 2 cups of plain four and 2 coffeespoons of baking powder. Once the mix become a thick and homogenous, then add a bit of salt and the lemon rind. On another container whip the egg whites until getting a meringue texture and add it to the rest of the mix. Line the container with butter and flour and pour the mix into the container. Bake it for 45 minutes. NOTES: 24-12-2009: Beat the egg whites until it makes "picos" - but don't mix it with the cake in the blender, you need to mix it in manually in folding movements Best to use glass cookware (Pyrex) for the cake, not metal! Cook for 40-45 minutes @ 160 degrees. (Less than 40 and the cake will deflate!) 12-12-2021: I used 7 egg whites for the merigue instead of 4 (and saved the 3 yolks for the milks), used LIGHTHOUSE Cake Sponge and Steamed Bun flour (same brand we use for pizza) and left in over for 45 minutes.

THE MILKS!

You'll need:

1 can of condensed milk (plus add half of 'light' condensed milk)
1 can of evaporated milk (plus add half of 'light' evaporated milk)
1 can of cream (plus add half of 'light' cream)
3 eggs (yolks, take the whites to the meringue above!)
vanilla - a little. Or none. Up to you.
rum (up to you and... the audience)

Blend the three cans with the 3 egg yolks in a blender

COVER THE CAKE?

With the egg whites create a meringue to cover the cake. This is mostly for decorative purposes, you can meringue with sugar, but... I USE NONE. I DON'T COVER THE CAKE - I use the meringue for better purposes. There, I said it.