Piña Coladas Tres Leches Cake

I had to make a cake for parents’ friends gathering the following day. Then I realized I did not have butter, or whipped cream. But I got the following ingredients that I could still make a killer Piña Coladas Tres Leches Cake!

Ingredients:

I box of yellow cake mix, plus oil, water and eggs or whatever the box calls for

1 can of crushed pineapple, drained

1 can of each: sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, coconut milk

1 bag of miniature marshmallows, or large ones, miniatures are what I had on hand.

Method:

Pre-heat oven as per instruction on cake mix box. Make the cake in a greased 9×13 pan according to instruction, but add the can of crushed pineapple into the batter before baking.

Once cake is done, poke the cake with the handle end of a spatula all over.

Combine the 3 cans of milks in a large bowl, whisk to ensure well incorporated. Pour milk mixture carefully all over cake. Don’t worry if it seems like too much milk, the cake will absorb it all, eventually.

Put oven on broil. Arrange marshmallows in a single layer, smugly on top of the cake.

Broil for about 3 minutes, turn the oven light on and keep an close eye on it, it will burn quickly.

Cool on the counter for about 10 minutes and cover the entire cake up with plastic wrap and let sit in the fridge over night, to give the cake enough time to soak up the milk mixture. The cake will be so moist and tender the following day. My parents said the cake was all gone in about 10 minutes at their gathering, and they didn’t even get to take a piece.