Coconut Tres Leches Cake (Which Really Has More Than Tres Leches)
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Photo: Beth Kirby
Elizabeth Evelyn Kirby, also known as Beth, also known as Kirby, brings us today’s beautiful cake. Her blog, Local Milk, won a 2014 Saveur Best Blog Award for photography, and you can see why with a quick scroll through her portfolio. (Want to learn to take photos like Kirby? You can sign up for her upcoming retreats in Australia and Lisbon.) The native Tennessean has traveled extensively—see her “wander" section—and after living in the Netherlands and in San Diego, California, she has returned to Chattanooga, calling herself “some strange breed of Southern.”
Back to the cake: Kirby’s tres leches cake isn’t really made of three milks, it’s made of many milks. “I don’t think a lot of people go looking for a ‘siete leches cake,’” she writes. “But, if you’re here, that’s what you’ve found. It contains no less than 7 permutations of milk: powdered milk, evaporated milk, whole milk, condensed milk, coconut milk, buttermilk, and heavy cream. All of the milks. So in celebration of all these things, I give you the dadgum milkiest cake I could dream up.” Appropriate for a blog called Local Milk, we think. Check out Kirby’s site for more beautiful photos and stories.
Get this recipe: Coconut Tres Leches Cake
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