Trader Joe's Tres Leches Cake

Trader Joe's takes on the popular Latin American dessert called Tres Leches, or literally three milks. A traditional tres leches cake contains evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream and all of which are present in this little cake.

The taste

A tres leches cake is usually light as air like a sponge cake. You need something airy to hold together all the liquid that this cake gets soaked in.

That is straightforward for a freshly made cake. However, the challenge here is to see whether or not it can be frozen and then thawed into something delicious.

And I'm here to tell you, yes, somehow they managed to accomplish this.

This is a very well-done cake.

I chose to defrost mine on the countertop after I picked this up. In about 2 hours it was ready to slice into and serve.

The packaging is clever to keep all the liquid in without it defrosting into a mess. And diary can get funny in the freezer. Here it doesn't manage to separate or do anything weird.

And more importantly, it isn't soggy. It slices fairly easily yet you know it is evenly soaked. It is very much on the sweet side of things so one small slice was good enough to kill the craving for something sweet.

Other than it being a hair sweeter than I would like, I think this was an exceptionally well-done cake in the freezer section. If you are a fan of tres leches cake, but don't have the time or want to spend the time making it yourself then this is an excellent alternative that holds up well in the freezer.