Tres leches, Mexican milk pie

Step 1

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees

Step 2

Grease the springform, do not use baking paper!

Step 3

Sift flour and baking powder in a bowl

Step 4

Seperate the eggs

Step 5

Beat the egg whites to soft peaks

Step 6

Add the sugar, bit by bit until the mixture is thick and shining

Step 7

Now add the yolks 1 by 1, while you continue beating

Step 8

Stop beating and carefully fold 1/3 of the flour into the mix

Step 9

Now add half of the (normal) milk, then another 1/3 of the flour, the rest of the milk, and finally the last 1/3 of the flour. Keep gently folding, do not stir!

Step 10

Add the seeds of the vanilla pod

Step 11

Put in the springform and put in the oven for 30 minutes. The cake is ready when you insert a fork and it comes out clean

Step 12

Leave to cool for 10 minutes or so, meanwhile stir the condensed milk, the cream and the evaporated milk together

Step 13

Take a fork or a cocktail pick and prick holes all over the surface of the cake

Step 14

Slowly pour the milk mixture over the top, give it a chance to be absorbed before adding more

Step 15

You can pour everything over, or you can keep a bit of the mixture aside to serve with the cake