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Tres Leches Cupcakes

4.38 from 8 votes
Did you know that these are also known as three milk cupcakes? In fact, “Tres Leches” means three milk in Spanish! This is a dense, wet cupcake that’s best eaten with a fork.
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for Cupcakes:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ cup salted butter slightly softened
  • 1 ¾ cups white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 egg whites
  • ⅔ cup heavy whipping cream
  • ⅔ cup milk
  • Muffin Cups
3 Milk Ingredients:
  • ½ cup heavy whipping cream
  • ½ cup evaporated milk
  • ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
  • ½ cup strawberry preserves
Frosting Ingredients:
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
  • Used Wilton Tip 32

Method
 

How to Make the Cupcakes:
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Line muffin tin with paper or foil muffin cups.
  3. In a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda. Set aside
  4. In a mixing bowl, beat butter for about 30 seconds. Add sugar and vanilla and beat well.
  5. Add egg whites and beat well on high speed.
  6. Alternate dry flour mixture with cream and milk, beating on low speed just until combined.
  7. Spoon batter into prepared cupcake pan.
  8. Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  9. Allow cupcakes to cool before frosting.
Directions for Topping:
  1. In a large bowl whisk the heavy whipping cream, evaporated milk and condensed milk ingredients together.
  2. Next, poke holes into the cupcakes with a fork. Slowly pour milk onto each cupcake until it’s almost to the top and completely absorbed by the cake.
  3. Now, spoon a small amount of preserves onto the top of the cupcake.
  4. Next, in a mixing bowl, beat together heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar until stiff. Place into a piping bag with a star tip and pipe onto prepared cupcakes.
  5. Your cupcakes are now ready to serve!

Notes

Because this recipe contains milk, you must refrigerate any leftover cupcakes.