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Tres Leches Latte or is it Tre Lattes Latte?I recently made a Tres Leches cake for my blog. For those not familiar with Tres Leches, it is a dense sponge cake that has been soaked in a syrupy mixture of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream, hence the name Tres Leches (three milks). The cake is then topped with whipped cream making it a decadent Latin-American treat. When making this cake it is always assured that you will have left over milk syrup. Instead of dumping it down the sink I thought, "why not make coffee with it?" The result was spectacular!
A Tre Latte Latte! (Italian for Tres Leches Latte)The Tres Leches milk syrup is roughly 2 parts evaporated milk, 2 parts sweetened condensed milk, and 1 part heavy cream. Since you will surely want to share with your friends the easiest recipe is as follows. Stir together:
For my latte I started with 4 oz espresso. Steam: 5 oz milk, 3 oz Tres Leches syrup, and 1/4 tsp vanilla extract. For the really cool layered look first: put the milk in the cup, wait until it's settled and then add the espresso very slowly. It will automatically separate. Don't even try to count the calories! Just enjoy!
Published: May 2009, Last Modified: October 2011 |
