# How do you make tres leches cake?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-tres-leches-cake/264508 "2004-09-15T04:19:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-tres-leches-cake/264508/1 "2004-09-15T04:19:50Z")

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Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you go to a hip little Spanish restaurant on vacay in Dallas, and for dessert they have something you’ve never heard of mixed in with the tiramisu and the creme brulee: tres leches, spongy cake with sweet milky sauce on it. And it’s fantastic. I mean, really really good. I should know, it happened to me.

And I can’t find it in my mother’s vast trove of cookbooks. Does anyone know a recipe? I’m guessing it’s not Spanish, either, so where is it from? Thanks, y’all.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-tres-leches-cake/264508/2 "2004-09-15T04:24:04Z")

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> **[Tres Leches Cake: Mystery Solved](https://www.texascooking.com/features/sept2002treslechescakerecipe.htm)**
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> How to make a Tres Leches Cake, a popular Mexican cake with step-by-step recipe instructions.

[http://www.world-recipes.info/mexico-mexican/tres\_leches\_cake.html](http://www.world-recipes.info/mexico-mexican/tres_leches_cake.html)  
[http://icuban.com/food/tres\_leches\_cake2.html](http://icuban.com/food/tres_leches_cake2.html)