Coconut Tres Leches Cake

Cinco de Mayo is coming! I can hear the pshhht of the Corona bottles being opened and the buzz of the margarita blenders already...okay I don't really (wish I did) but I do hear the squishy moist sound of this awesome tres leches cake. Who in the world came up with sweetened condensed milk? That stuff, when mixed with the other dos leches makes the creamiest, sweetest, most seductive liquid. Tres leches ice cream Ben n' Jerry if your reading....tres leches latte Starbucks?

This tres leches is a little different from others I've made. It has coconut milk in it as well as toasted coconut flakes but this just makes it even more bang-on in my opinion. The recipe comes from Lisa Fain's Homesick Texan cook book. I reviewed this book before it first came out and I've tried many of her recipes, all of which have been awesome. If I could fault this cake in any way it wouldn't be on taste, no sirree...it would be to say it came out a little dense and heavy. I'm not sure if this was my fault or if my baking powder's whacked? Regardless of it's molecular structure, when three types of milk are combined with sponge, tiny cake shaped pinatas explode on my tongue!

If your having a Cinco de Mayo blowout this weekend, do yourself a favor and make this cake. It's easy and fast, the hardest part is waiting on the cake soaking up all of that milky goodness overnight, all you want to do is stick your finger in and taste it. You don't even need to plate it up like I did, keep it as a sheet cake and just serve it in slices with the extra milk mixture on the sides for the true leche fiends like myself.Happy Cinco de Mayo.