Betty’s Three Milk Cake

Pastel de Tres Leches de Betty

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Preparation info
  • Servings:

    15

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
My South Texas Kitchen: Traditional Recipes And Modern Tips

By Yvette Zuniga Jemison

Published 2022

  • About

My cousin Betty’s Tres Leches cake is our family’s most popular cake. The cake layer is soaked in a sweet milk mixture and coated in a cream cheese frosting. While a milk soaked-cake might sound soggy, you’ll find that this cake has a pudding like texture. Betty makes this often requested cake in a pan that her mother gave her over 38 years ago. Her 11-inch round pan isn’t a standard size, but this recipe can be baked in a 9x13-inch pan. Betty’s shortcut for her ultra-rich cake is to make t