Quattro Leches Cake

Trace means three. I'm getting this

Don't you love that audience? It does bring up the energy. Jamie and I are here with our friends Albert and Dee Dee Pujols

Albert is over there sitting next to Jamie. Dee Dee's up here with me

I'm Jamie. I'm Elijah. People get us confused all the time. Yes, I can see why

So we have a segment here on the Paula Deen Network that we call Sinful Mondays

And, you know, at our house, we try to eat right during the week

and on the weekends, we'll kind of blow it out. And sometimes Mondays, it's hard to get back up on that horse

and do what you're supposed to do. And sometimes I'll just say, to heck with it

and we're just going to call it Sinful Mondays. So this is Dee Dee's recipe

and I can't say none of the words up there where the recipe's hanging

The only word that I can pronounce is the last word is cake

So Dee Dee, take it away. And I'm here to help you and do whatever you tell me to do

Okay. Can you teach my husband how to say that? That I'll do whatever you want me to do

Okay. Albert. Albert. I will do... I will do... Whatever Dee Dee tells me to do

I don't know. How about that? All right. So the original recipe is from Albert's aunt, Cynthia

And it's tres leche cake, which is a very common dessert. Oh, yeah

But this recipe calls for four milks, so we're going to call it cuatro leche

Does tres that word did I say it right Uh Tres Ustedes cuono tres What is it Uno dos tres Uno dos tres

I think that was Portuguese or something. I knew it was something like that. Yeah, we really don't have time for a Spanish lesson here today

Trace means three. I'm getting this. This is making sense. Now can you say tres? Tres

There you go. See? But forget tres. Forget tres. It's cuatro. Now it's a cuatro

It's a four-milk cake. So cuatro. Cuatro. It ain't tres no more

I took Spanish one and I failed it. I know you find that hard to believe

I do. I can't believe it. Well, you're kind of hit and miss on English lots of days

You're steeped in Southern language. Yes, I speak Southern. And that's good enough for you

But today, with our friends here, we're going to enjoy Albert's Ant's cake

I'm going to speak Spanish, yes. Ooh, this is going to be... Albert's Ant's Tres Leche cake

Cuatro. Cuatro. Cuatro cake. I tell you what, I'm going to go over there and sit where Jamie is

and I'm going to get Jamie to come up here where I am. That would be my pleasure. Because I'm going to sit over here

and I'm going to fondle your husband. Well, you let me know how that goes

Don't be scared. I'm very scared. I'm not gonna be able to concentrate

Don't we look like a happy couple? Yeah, you do. I happen to be a cougar

Jamie, you're killing her cougar spirit. I'm nine years older than my husband. Jenny, let's bring her back in

It's your job, Jenny, to reel her back in. We have two cups of flour, and we have a half a cup of sugar

So all we need to do is add a tablespoon of baking powder. OK

I'll do that for you. And then, um... One tablespoon That right Careful There you go OK So that what you have there the dry ingredients So we going to do three eggs and a half a cup of whole milk

Those are wrapped around a lot of bats. And we're just going to beat it with the beater. OK

All right. So while he is preparing our cake mixture, all right

so we're going to spray the dish. You're so putty. Ah, thanks

So this is pretty simple. Pretty simple cake. Flour, sugar, milk, eggs. Very simple cake

And the batter is thick, and the cake comes out very dense

So don't be freaked out if it almost feels like a dough. Mm-hmm

So what we're going to do is pop this in the oven at 375 for about 20 to 25 minutes

That's all it needs. What's the flavoring in there? It was vanilla

OK. I was distracted. Did I miss it? No, we didn't miss that. No, there's no flavor

No flavor in the bottom. Oh, no flavor yet. Sorry. The vanilla's about to happen. This is the interesting part

So here's where the four milks happen. We have sweetened condensed milk. We have regular milk

We have evaporated milk. And then we have the heavy cream. Heavy cream. Yum

You eat this good? You're talking my language now, D.D. So if you have weakness on Monday, this is a good weakness to have

So that was a half a cup of regular milk? Yes. Two cups of heavy cream

Heavy cream. A can of evaporated milk. And a can of sweetened condensed milk

Oh, yeah. Get that spatula now and get all of that out. Now, if you want to get experimental

you can use whatever kind of extract you want. But if you want to stay traditional, I'd say stick with the vanilla

Is it ready? Well, the cake is ready. But then you have to take a fork

and you want to just poke holes in the cake. And it's so dense

Oh, it is. Don't freak out. All right, Albert, I got to leave you now, honey. Come on

Hard as it was to unwrap myself, I got to look at this

Yeah, so it's a- Oh my gosh it hard as a brick bat Yes Look I mean look y Look I mean you could take it out and use a frisbee

So, it is dance. But now we're going to make it soft. Yes, and now you are

gonna make... So now you just pour all the milk right on top

Oh, my gracious. Oh, I know that's gonna be good. Holy cow

Now, it looks like it's floating and all this stuff. Holy cow! That's the way I like to make my coconut cakes

So now you've got to let this sit. For how many days? You can let it sit for a day

or you can let it sit for several hours, just up until, look how much it's already soaking up. Yeah

That's not even a camera trick. Look, it's almost disappeared. So then you take the finished cake out

And now it's moist. This is a meringue. So I make this over a double boiler

I put the eggs in with the beater already on. Yes, you make like a seven-minute icing

Yes. And then I add the sugar to the eggs. All right, now, are you going to cook that now over the double boiler

They have done it for us. Oh, they've already done it. Yes. And our job is just to add it

So you just take the... Uh-huh. This meringue. I'm catching on to this recipe, by golly

Well, if you weren't so busy fondling my husband... All right. So I usually serve it with strawberries

Uh-huh. The frosting, the meringue goes really good. Okay. Okay. I'll do us up some strawberries

That cake is beautiful. So look, Paula. Beautiful. You can see some of the milk kind of hangs out

Yes. It's still sitting down there. We're going to taste it. I want Jamie to be the first, because he's never had it before

Okay. Well, I've never had it either. Oh, you haven't? No, I've never had it

Look how juicy this cake is. Holy guacamole. That is smack your mama good