Tres leches cake - wikipedia Tres leches cake This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2013 ) Tres leches cake A decorated slice of tres leches cake Alternative names Torta de tres leches, pan tres leches, bizcocho de tres leches Type Sponge cake ( or butter cake ) Main ingredients Cake base ; evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy cream Cookbook : Tres leches cake Media : Tres leches cake A tres leches cake ( Spanish : pastel de tres leches, torta de tres leches or bizcocho de tres leches ), also known as pan tres leches ( `` three milks bread '' ), is a sponge cake -- in some recipes, a butter cake -- soaked in three kinds of milk : evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream. When butter is not used, the Tres Leches is a very light cake, with many air bubbles. This distinct texture is why it does not have a soggy consistency, despite being soaked in a mixture of three types of milk. Popularity and origins The idea for creating a cake soaked in a liquid is likely of Medieval European origin, as similar cakes, such as British Trifle and rum cake, and tiramisu from Italy, use this method. Recipes for soaked - cake desserts were seen in Mexico as early as the 19th century, likely a result of the large cross-cultural transfer which took place between Europe and the Americas. Recipes appeared on Nestlé condensed milk can labels in the 1940s, which may explain the cake 's widely disseminated popularity throughout Latin America as the company had created subsidiaries in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela in the 1930s. The cake is popular in Central and South America, North America and many parts of the Caribbean, Canary Islands, as well as in Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and some other parts of Europe. In recent years its popularity has increased in Turkey under the name of Trileçe. Variations A variety of tres leches known as trileçe has recently become popular in Turkey. One theory is that the popularity of Brazilian soap operas in Albania led local chefs to reverse - engineer the dessert, which then spread to Turkey. The Albanian / Turkish version is sometimes made literally with three milks : cow 's, goat 's and water buffalo 's, though more commonly a mixture of cow 's milk and cream is used. Notes ^ Jump up to : Pack, MM ( 13 February 2004 ). `` Got Milk ? On the trail of pastel de tres leches ''. Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 19 January 2014. Jump up ^ Nestlé S.A. http://www.company-histories.com/Nestle-SA-Company-History.html Retrieved 19 February 2014 Jump up ^ Higuera McMahon, Jacqueline ( 8 August 2007 ). `` Tres Leches cake goes one better ''. SFGate. Retrieved 19 January 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` Trileçe kazan dünya kepçe ''. Hürriyet. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015. Jump up ^ Dan Nosowitz / ( November 12, 2015 ). `` How a South American Soap Opera Created a Turkish Dessert Craze ''. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved November 13, 2015. 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Question: what types of milk are in tres leches
Answer: evaporated milk