Name: Tres Leches or Milk Cake
Ingredients: baked cake; Filling; 2 cups milk; 1 can of condensed milk; 1 can of evaporated milk; 1 quart of half'n'half; vanilla; 1 cup of sugar

Why it works: Condensed milk and evaporated milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 168 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Tres Leches or Milk Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Mix sugar and butter cream until fluffy, add 4 eggs and vanilla blend all together with the 2 cups of flour with baking powder.
Pour into a greased rectangular Pyrex and bake for 30 minutes.
Once the cake is ready and cold, add the filling (milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk) combine the 3 milks and soak the cake with it.
If you want, you can add whipped cream (Sugar and half & half) and spread on top of the cake.
keep it on the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
You can use fresh fruits on top of the cake (strawberries or cherries).

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

210Calories

8 gProtein

8 gFat

25 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cake	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Condensed milk + evaporated milktop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Evaporated milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Condensed milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Vanilla Ice Cream108 recipes

White Cake431 recipes

Pound Cake373 recipes

Orange Bundt Cake349 recipes

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Tres Leches or Milk Cake