Revamp Tres Leches Cake With The Help Of Your Favorite Cereal

A confection with complicated origins, tres leches cake is nonetheless a delicious dessert that can be made easily and enjoyed by many. The most prominent ingredient of a tres leches cake recipe is the three different types of milk used, typically a combination of whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. Give your next tres leches cake an upgraded fit for a Saturday morning breakfast by combining the whole milk element with your favorite cereal. Of the many creative ways to use breakfast cereal, making your own infused cereal milk will add an entirely new layer of flavor and fun to your tres leches cake.

Cereal milk is a great addition to a variety of desserts including chess pie recipes and much more. It's easy to make and allows you to pick your favorite flavors for a fully customized version of a tres leches cake. Simply select one of the best breakfast cereals and mix ½ cup of the cereal into your milk mixture. Let it infuse for at least 30 minutes to ensure the flavors are fully integrated before straining out the cereal and proceeding with adding the cereal milk into your tres leches cake batter. With so many cereals to choose from, the only limit is your own imagination.

There are a few different schools of thought when it comes to adding cereal milk to cake. You'll either want to choose a cereal that has a flavor close to that of your cake or one that, while different, is still complementary. Focusing on similar flavors, you can start by infusing your milk with a cinnamon-flavored cereal such as Cinnamon Toast Crunch, which you can buy on Amazon. Going a little further from a standard cinnamon addition, you can pick a cereal like Honey Smacks or Honey Bunches of Oats for an added sweetness that will go well with the rich milky and cinnamon flavors of the cake.

If you feel like your tres leches cake could stand to have a bit more fruit flavor added, you can get creative with Fruity Pebbles or Froot Loops-infused milk. For something even sweeter, try Lucky Charms Just Magical Marshmallows, available on Amazon, which will make an extra sugary addition to your milk. If you'd like to introduce a more chocolate-forward flavor, Count Chocula cereal is especially prevalent around the Halloween season and beyond. However you choose to level up your tres leches cake, it will be more than three times as delightful!