If you love Mexican desserts, you’ll also love Fried Ice Cream, Churros, and Flan.
We Love Chocolate!
We love a flavorful cake for celebrations and just because. This chocolate version of classic Tres Leches Cake is a tasty twist on a favorite Mexican dessert! Tres leches is Spanish for “three milks” which are soaked into the cake sponge. Chocolate tres leches cake provides a decadent addition! Why we love it:
Cake mix recipe. This easy cake is made even easier with the use of a cake mix! Texture. There’s no risk of a dry cake here. The 3 milks create a deliciously moist cake. Not your typical sheet cake. This cake can feed a crowd and is a fun twist on classic sheet cakes. It’s especially perfect for fiestas!
Try our Easy Tres Leches Cake (with cake mix) for another quick dessert.
Ingredients
package chocolate cake mix – Follow the directions on the recipe and not the directions on the box. Use a box cake mix between 15-18 oz. Or you can make your own Chocolate Sponge Cake, including gluten-free cake, and then soak it with the tres leches milk mixture chocolate milk canola oil- or vegetable oil eggs sweetened condensed milk half-and-half evaporated milk unsweetened cocoa powder confectioners’ sugar heavy whipping cream chocolate curls – Choose a high-quality chocolate bar. Use milk chocolate, semi-sweet, or dark chocolate.
How to Make CHocolate Tres Leches
Storing Info
Make ahead of time. If you are purposefully making the cake ahead of time, I recommend storing the cake and the whipped cream topping separately. Frost the cake before serving. STORE covered in the fridge for 4-5 days. If the fridge is too cold, the milk mixture may partially freeze and produce a hard cake. Simply let the cake sit at room temperature for a few minutes to soften. FREEZE for up to 3 months. Freeze it with or without the whipped cream topping. Wrap the cake tightly with plastic wrap and again with foil. Thaw in the fridge before serving.
The chocolate bar needs to be at room temperature otherwise it will be too hard to create curls. Peel the short side for short curls or the long side for larger curls.
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title: “Chocolate Tres Leches Cake " ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-19” author: “Lourdes Felten”
Happy Friday!!! Today, It’s a no-savory-allowed kind of day because this cake is so delicious that I won’t need anything else for a while. I just want to face plant in it forever! Okay, It’s official… I have a thing for chocolate! But you can never have too much chocolate…right? I hope not because this cake will get you chocolate wasted. Meanwhile, I try to deal with my chocolate obsession I’m guessing that many of you are getting ready for the big game. We don’t have any big plans. My husband hurt his back a few days ago and barely can move. The doctor said he has a lumbar herniated disc and it will take weeks until he can feel better. So it’ll be a quiet Super Bowl for us, perhaps I’ll make some burgers or sandwiches with salsa and chip. After all, Super Bowl is about food and commercials, isn’t it? But if you’re in celebration- mode this Chocolate Tres Leches cake is a dessert fit for a Super Bowl Party!! And I can tell you, no matter how the big game goes, everyone will remember this piece of heaven. Yes, that good!
If you’re not familiar with tres leches cake, it’s a traditional Latin American cake soaked in three kinds of milk, usually a combination of evaporated milk, condensed milk, and cream. In my recipe, I also add whole milk. The original version is made with white-vanilla cake, but there are other versions such as coconut, coffee, chocolate, etc. I’m not going to lie to you. This cake is uber dense and chocolaty. Downright dreamy. It’s moist yet not at all soggy and absolutely delicious.
This cake is large! It will easily serve 14- 16 people. When the cream topping is set you can go ahead and cut it into 16 equal pieces.
Give it a try…this cake will be your next guilty pleasure, NO DOUBT!
This is not an eggless recipe! This is the recipe that I used to make before my daughter was diagnosed with egg and nuts allergies. If you’re looking for eggless recipes, click here to browse.
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