Recipe - Pastel Tres Leches Aldaco

Three fourths cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half cup Plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 pn Salt
3 lg Eggs
One half cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

MILK MIX
1 cn Evaporated milk; (12ounce)
1 cn Sweetened condensed milk;
(14ounce)
1 cn Whole milk; (use empty
condensed milk can)
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teaspoon Rum; optional (1 to 2)
Chopped pecans; or cinnamon
to sprinkle on top

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9inch round cake pan. Mix
together flour, baking powder sugar and pinch of salt in medium bowl. In
another bowl, stir together the eggs, milk and vanilla lightly. Mix with
the dry ingredients and stir well. Scrape into the cake pan and bake for
about 20 minutes or until the top is light golden and springs back when
touched in the center. Take cake out, cool 15 minutes, then remove from pan
so cake doesn't stick. Let cool completely. When cake is cooled, cut it in
half horizontally with a longbladed knife. To make the milk mixture: put
the evaporated, condensed and whole milk, vanilla and rum, if desired, into
a large mixing bowl or blender and blend well. Lift the top half of the
cake off and set aside. Put the bottom half of the cake onto a larger
serving dish with a rim (to catch any excess milk). Slowly pour enough of
the milk mixture onto the bottom half of the cake to saturate it well.
Replace the top half over the soaked bottom half and carefully pour more of
the milk mixture over the top. This procedure should be performed slowly
and you may have to wait a bit for the milk to soak into the top half, then
pour some more. The cake should be allowed to soak and chill for at least 2
hours in the refrigerator. (It is even better left to soak in the milk
overnight.)Cut into pieshaped wedges and garnish the top of each serving
with chopped pecans or a sprinkle of cinnamon. If there is milk left over
that the cake didn't soak up, pour into a small pitcher and serve alongside
the dessert.

NOTES : Here is another Mexican dessert recipe, from Aldaco's restaurant in
San Antonio, Texas. Absolutely delicious!
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Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #767 by louiseh@juno.com on Aug 30, 1997