Cereal Milk Tres Leches Cake
I wish I could have gotten this cereal milk tres leches cake up yesterday for you, but I got it up before Cinco de Mayo tomorrow! If you start this tonight or tomorrow morning, you can eat this for dessert tomorrow!
I’m not a big cereal eater but I do love the cereal milk! I was brainstorming flavors for a new tres leches cake and this one popped into my head and I couldn’t get it out. It’s super delicious and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal is the perfect cereal for a tres leches cake!
Because I love adding tid bits of life in Finland, Cinnamon Toast Crunch in Finland is called Cini Minis. This is what my kids call it and it’s still weird to me that it’s the same logo, same box look, same taste, but has a different name.
I have 3 other tres leches cakes on my blog. Try them all– Original, Chocolate, and Coconut.
PrintCereal Milk Tres Leches
All the loveliness of a tres leches cake with the flavor enhanced with cereal milk. A super light cake soaked in a delicious cereal milk mixture and topped with fresh whipped cream. acupofcream.com
- Prep Time: 20 minutes plus 2 hours inactive
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
- Yield: Serves about 12 1x
Ingredients
Cake base-
1 cup flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
5 large egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
1/3 cup whole milk
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
5 large egg whites
¼ cup sugar
3 milks-
1, 12 oz can evaporated milk
1/3 cup whole milk
2 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
1, 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
Whipped Cream-
1 2/3 cups heaving whipping cream
1 cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping-
2 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
Instructions
Cake Base-
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Separate the eggs into separate bowls- egg whites in a stand mixer bowl (or large mixing bowl), and egg yolks in a small mixing bowl. (You can’t have any yolk at all in the egg whites or they won’t make stiff peaks!)
Add ¾ cup sugar to the egg yolks and whisk by hand, pretty fast, till the yolks are a pale yellow. Add 1/3 cup whole milk and vanilla and mix. Pour the egg yolk mixture over the flour and mix till almost combined.
Attach a whisk attachment to the stand mixer or use an electric hand mixer and mix on high speed. Gradually add the ¼ cup of sugar and beat till stiff peaks. Gently fold the egg whites into the batter, trying not to deflate the air in the egg whites.
Pour the batter into a 9×13 cake pan and spread evenly. Don’t grease pan.
Cook the cake till it’s golden brown on top and a toothpick comes out clean, about 22-30 minutes. *see note
Remove from oven and let cool completely.
3 milks-
In a medium mixing bowl combine the evaporated milk and the whole milk. Add the Cereal and let soak for 30 minutes. Put the milk and cereal in a blender and blend for about 5 seconds till cereal is in small pieces. Strain through a fine mesh strainer, pushing gently on the cereal to help release more milk. Don’t press too hard, you don’t want the actual cereal to go through. Add the sweetened condensed milk into the cereal milk mixture and mix to combine.
Poke holes with a chop stick or a fork all over the cake, as many as you can do without the cake starting to fall apart.
Pour the milks over the cake, as evenly as possible. Refrigerate the cakes for at least 2 hours, or as much as 2 days before serving. *see note
Whipped Cream-
Add the cream and cereal to a bowl and let sit for 15-20 minutes. Strain cereal out (don’t blend this time) and add cream to the bowl and whip till stiff peaks. Spread evenly over the cake just before serving.
Topping-
In a food processor pulse the cereal till small crumbs in size. You can also put the cereal in a gallon zip lock and smack with a rolling pin as well. Sprinkle cereal over the whipped cream before serving.
Notes
This is the only cake I can think of that I’m okay to bake till toothpick comes out clean. Usually if you bake a cake till a toothpick comes out clean it means you’ve over cooked it and it will be dry. But, because you’re going to be pouring milk over this, it’s better to have it be a bit dry so it can soak up even more milk.
I’d recommend making and adding the whipped cream over the cake just before serving instead of right after pouring the milk over the cake.
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