Cuatro Leches Vanilla Mantecado Cake, anyone have the recipe?!
Vanilla Mantecada Cake
Vanilla Mantecada Cake
Ingredients
3 cups all purpose flour
1 ? teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk
8" parchment paper liner
8” cake pan
Procedure
Preheat the oven to 350F
1. Sift baking powder, flour and salt.
Cream butter in the mixer with the
paddle attachment until very fluffy.
2. Add the sugar gradually until is
all incorporated. Add one egg at
a time, until blended using speed
#1. Continue to mix, add vanilla
extract, add 1/3 of flour mixture into
the batter.
3. Add ? cup of milk, then half of
the left over flour mix, then the rest
of milk, then the remaining flour until
fully incorporated for about 1
minute or less, do not over mix
4. Pour batter into an 8” buttered
cake pan mold lined with
parchment paper
5. Place in lower 3rd rack of heated
oven and bake for 55 to 70 minutes
until the center of the cake springs
back when touched and the sides
come apart from the mold. It will
smell done, when ready.
Dulce De Leche
(Arequipe, Manjar Blanco)
Ingredients
1 Can of Eagle
Condensed Milk
Procedure
1. Boil the unopened can in a water
bath inside a large cylinder strainer for
2 hours at medium high fire.
2. Carefully flip the can upside down
every 45 minutes, while boiling.
3. Remove can from water, allow to
cool off then open
Make sure you always maintain the
can at least 2/3 covered with water
or it may explode.
Caramelized Meringue
Ingredients
2 cups of Sugar
1 Tablespoon of Lemon juice
1 cup egg whites
? teaspoon of vanilla extract
4 oz of water
Blow torch assembly
Procedure
1. In small sauce pan, with a candy
thermometer, bring water and sugar
to softball level. Temperature 240 F.
2. In a electric mixer bowl beat the
egg whites until soft peaks form,
using the whip attachment.
3. Add the sugar syrup slowly at
medium speed. Once is all
incorporated, bring the speed up to
high, add lemon juice and vanilla,
then mix well until hard peaks form.
3 Leches Sauce
Ingredients
2 cups evaporated milk
2 cups condensed milk
2 cups whipping cream
Procedure
Whisk all ingredients
together and refrigerate
Arequipe Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup dulce de leche
1/2 cup warmed whole milk
Procedure
Whisk all ingredients
together and refrigerate
Cake Assembly
Ingredients
1 8” baked and cooled
mantecada cake
1 cup of 3 leches sauce
3/4 cup Arequipe Sauce
1 recipe of Meringue
Powder sugar for dusting
Blow torch, knife, sifter,
spatula, cake card board,
cake platter
Procedure
1. Turn cake onto a card board
and remove parchment paper
2. Slice cake upside down in 3
even layers, use toothpicks to
guide your knife
3. Pierce each layer with a fork
4. Brush 6 oz. of 3 leches sauce
per layer, as you top the layers
and reassemble the cake
5. Ice cake with meringue using
a spatula, make sure to create
a
1/2 inch thick cover all around
the cake and finish with peaks
6. Torch the meringue until
golden brown, make sure not to
burn it
7. Drizzle Arequipe sauce and
dust with powder sugar
hope this helps. good luck and enjoy.
Answers: Cuatro Leches
Vanilla Mantecada Cake
Vanilla Mantecada Cake
Ingredients
3 cups all purpose flour
1 ? teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk
8" parchment paper liner
8” cake pan
Procedure
Preheat the oven to 350F
1. Sift baking powder, flour and salt.
Cream butter in the mixer with the
paddle attachment until very fluffy.
2. Add the sugar gradually until is
all incorporated. Add one egg at
a time, until blended using speed
#1. Continue to mix, add vanilla
extract, add 1/3 of flour mixture into
the batter.
3. Add ? cup of milk, then half of
the left over flour mix, then the rest
of milk, then the remaining flour until
fully incorporated for about 1
minute or less, do not over mix
4. Pour batter into an 8” buttered
cake pan mold lined with
parchment paper
5. Place in lower 3rd rack of heated
oven and bake for 55 to 70 minutes
until the center of the cake springs
back when touched and the sides
come apart from the mold. It will
smell done, when ready.
Dulce De Leche
(Arequipe, Manjar Blanco)
Ingredients
1 Can of Eagle
Condensed Milk
Procedure
1. Boil the unopened can in a water
bath inside a large cylinder strainer for
2 hours at medium high fire.
2. Carefully flip the can upside down
every 45 minutes, while boiling.
3. Remove can from water, allow to
cool off then open
Make sure you always maintain the
can at least 2/3 covered with water
or it may explode.
Caramelized Meringue
Ingredients
2 cups of Sugar
1 Tablespoon of Lemon juice
1 cup egg whites
? teaspoon of vanilla extract
4 oz of water
Blow torch assembly
Procedure
1. In small sauce pan, with a candy
thermometer, bring water and sugar
to softball level. Temperature 240 F.
2. In a electric mixer bowl beat the
egg whites until soft peaks form,
using the whip attachment.
3. Add the sugar syrup slowly at
medium speed. Once is all
incorporated, bring the speed up to
high, add lemon juice and vanilla,
then mix well until hard peaks form.
3 Leches Sauce
Ingredients
2 cups evaporated milk
2 cups condensed milk
2 cups whipping cream
Procedure
Whisk all ingredients
together and refrigerate
Arequipe Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup dulce de leche
1/2 cup warmed whole milk
Procedure
Whisk all ingredients
together and refrigerate
Cake Assembly
Ingredients
1 8” baked and cooled
mantecada cake
1 cup of 3 leches sauce
3/4 cup Arequipe Sauce
1 recipe of Meringue
Powder sugar for dusting
Blow torch, knife, sifter,
spatula, cake card board,
cake platter
Procedure
1. Turn cake onto a card board
and remove parchment paper
2. Slice cake upside down in 3
even layers, use toothpicks to
guide your knife
3. Pierce each layer with a fork
4. Brush 6 oz. of 3 leches sauce
per layer, as you top the layers
and reassemble the cake
5. Ice cake with meringue using
a spatula, make sure to create
a
1/2 inch thick cover all around
the cake and finish with peaks
6. Torch the meringue until
golden brown, make sure not to
burn it
7. Drizzle Arequipe sauce and
dust with powder sugar
hope this helps. good luck and enjoy.