This rich and creamy Tres Leches Cake is a classic Latin American dessert made with three kinds of milk for an ultra-moist, tender cake. It’s an easy recipe you can make at home for celebrations, holidays, or anytime you want a sweet treat. It’s finished with cinnamon, chocolate shavings, and fresh berries.

Tres Leches Cake is Spanish for “3 milk” cake. It has three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and a little bit of heavy cream. This cake recipe is the perfect make-ahead dessert and it’s even better than the one at your favorite mexican restaurant. The cake base itself is chiffon. It’s spongy and light, which is perfect for absorbing the moisture from all three milks, making it to die for!

Ingredients for a Tres Leches Cake

A tres leches cake is essentially a poke cake, just like our popular lemon jello cake. You’re going to need basic cake-making ingredients, the 3 milks, and then ingredients to make the whipped cream on top and whatever garnishes you might want to add. Here is everything you will need:

For the Cake:

• Flour: Just regular all-purpose flour is all you need
• Baking Powder: acts as a leavening agent to give the cake rise and fluffiness
• Salt: enhances all the flavors
• Eggs: You’ll separate the eggs and add the egg yolks and egg whites separately into the batter
• Sugar: just regular white granulated sugar
• Whole Milk: helps bind all the ingredients together
• Vanilla: adds flavor

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• Evaporated Milk: can be found in the grocery store on the baking aisle
• Sweetened Condensed Milk: can be found on the baking aisle
• Heavy Cream: Whole milk also works if you don’t have cream

For the Icing:

• Heavy Whipping Cream: the base for the whipped cream
• Sugar: adds sweetness
• Vanilla Extract: adds flavor

Decoration:

• Strawberries: sliced thin
• Cinnamon: just a little sprinkle over the top adds a great pop of flavor and warmth
• Shaved Chocolate: see the section below for instructions on how to shave chocolate

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card down below. Keep scrolling for all the details.

Making This Recipe

This recipe might seem a little over

Mascarpone whipped cream is rich, creamy, and just lightly sweet making it the perfect topping or frosting for desserts. Made with mascarpone cheese and heavy cream, this whipped cream holds its shape beautifully while staying soft and silky.

If you’re looking for a more stable, luxurious alternative to traditional whipped cream, this easy mascarpone whipped cream recipe is exactly what you need.

This recipe is inspired by the popular food truck, Waffle Love. I originally was looking to make a thicker, creamier whipped cream to accompany our Liege Waffles, or as you all know them, Waffle Love waffles, and while I did just that, I also threw in some clear vanilla and my goodness, it took the taste to a whole new level!!! 4 ingredients is all you need!

What is Mascarpone Cheese?

Mascarpone is an Italian soft cheese made from cow’s milk and coagulated with an acid of some kind. It’s like Italian cream cheese. It is extra creamy and velvety in texture has the most dreamy flavor. It is similar to cream cheese but more sweet. You can find it at the grocery store near the cream cheese in a small white container usually.

Ingredients for Mascarpone Whipped Cream

Adding mascarpone cheese to the whipped cream helps stabilize it. We have a stabilized whipped cream recipe already on the blog, but if you don’t want to mess with gelatin, try mascarpone instead! Here is what you will need:

• Heavy Whipping Cream: you’ll need a pint of whipping cream to make this recipe
• Clear Vanilla Extract: A splash of vanilla is essential in this whipped cream and the clear vanilla makes helps it stay bright white.
  • If you don’t have clear vanilla, regular vanilla extract will work fine.
• Powdered Sugar: also called confectioners’ sugar
• Mascarpone: can be found in the grocery store near the ricotta cheese or cream cheese

The measurements of each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Mascarpone Whipped Cream Frosting

Mascarpone cream comes together in minutes, uses just a few ingredients, and works beautifully on cakes, cupcakes, pies, waffles, and fresh fruit. Once you try mascarpone cream, it’s hard to go back. Here’s how you make it:

1. Soft Peaks: Add the heavy cream to a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and beat until soft peaks form. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
2. Stiff Peaks: Add in the rest of the ingredients and beat until stiff peaks form.

This whipped cream will be stabilized enough to put in a piping bag pipe on cupcakes or pies. The complete recipe can be found in the recipe card down below. Keep scrolling for all the details.

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Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting is a dreamy blend of rich, tangy cream cheese and light, fluffy whipped cream. Silky and smooth with just the right hint of sweetness, it’s the perfect topping for cakes, cupcakes, and fruit.

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Whipped Cream Frosting

You only need 5 ingredients to make this easy whip cream frosting with cream cheese. Here is what you’ll need:

• Heavy Whipping Cream
• Cream Cheese
• Powdered Sugar
• Salt
• Vanilla Extract

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Whip Cream Cream Cheese Frosting

Want the creamiest, fluffiest frosting ever? Whip up whipped cream, beat cream cheese until smooth and add a little powdered sugar to sweeten things up. This Cream Cheese Whipped Cream Frosting is the lightest, and most delicious frosting ever! Here are the steps in a little more details:

1. Beat: Add the whipping cream to a mixing bowl and beat until stiff peaks form.
2. Combine: In a separate bowl, add the cream cheese, powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla and mix until well combined and smooth.
3. Fold: Add the whipped cream to the cream cheese mixture and fold in until well combined.

The recipe card at the end of the post contains all the information you need to make this recipe. The photos below show each step of the recipe.

Can This Frosting Be Colored?

Yes absolutely! We prefer to use food coloring gel for the best color. Adding food dye to the frosting makes it perfect for any festive occasion…holidays, baby showers, Superbowl parties, graduations, etc.

How to Use This Frosting

Whip cream and cream cheese frosting goes great on op of cupcakes and cakes of course. It also make a delicious dip for fruit. There’s no reason to stop there either! Use it on cheesecake or pie too! It’s so creamy with a slight tanginess, perfect for just about any dessert!

Storage Tips

Unused frosting should be stored in an airtight container in the fridge. It will keep for up to 5 days. When you are ready to use it again, you’ll want to let it sit at room temperature for few minutes so it will become spreadable again.

This quick and easy recipe for whip cream and cream cheese frosting is the perfect addition to your favorite cakes and cupcakes. With just a

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Biscuits Recipe

Forget those little store-bought fake-cake shortcakes! This is the most delicious strawberry shortcake recipe we’ve ever made! We layer our buttery, flaky homemade biscuits with irresistible sweet strawberries and whipped cream to make homemade strawberry shortcake completely from scratch!

This strawberry shortcake is so simple that you can make it within the hour, and so satisfying that it will easily become your go-to summer dessert.

For me, the moment that marks the beginning of summer is when I bite into my first strawberry of the season. Is it even a lazy summer day if it doesn’t end with juicy berries piled on flaky biscuits and a big dollop of freshly whipped cream?! Homemade strawberry shortcake is the essential dessert for summer!

Gardening with Mom

I grew up obsessed with strawberry shortcake! Not only was it my favorite, it was a reward for hard work. 

Every summer, we’d plant the biggest garden, and by “we,” I mostly mean my mom. I remember Dad tilling the soil, and my 4 siblings and I “helping” for what felt like hours (it was probably 30 minutes). We’d dig through tomato vines and hunt for huge spiders with colorful patterns and potato bugs, then rush back to the house with dirt in our shoes and under our nails.

Fried Chicken, Jojo’s and Strawberry Shortcake

After a hot shower, we’d all pile around the table for fried chicken, JoJos (if you’re from the Pacific Northwest, you know), and to finish the day: strawberry shortcake. Always from those little spongy packages, always stealing the bits stuck to the white cardboard, and always – always – a big scoop of Cool Whip on top.

From Scratch Biscuits for Strawberry Shortcake

These days, unlike the little packaged angel food cakes, we make our shortcakes with from scratch flaky, buttery biscuits as a nod to BurgerVille (a PNW classic).  But the berries? Still done the way Mom taught us: 

How to Make Fresh Strawberries for Strawberry Shortcake

What’s the secret to Mom’s extra sweet berries?

Smash a few, slice the rest, sprinkle on a little sugar, and let them sit! That’s the secret to extra-juicy, syrupy strawberries – and trust me, they are heavenly.

Tips for Perfectly Flaky Biscuits

• Use a food processor or pastry cutter to cut in extra cold butter, jus like you would for a pie crust.  
• Use unsalted butter to control the salt of the biscuit. 
• Don’t over mix as this will lead to a tough bis

Copycat Waffle Love Mascarpone Whipped Cream Recipe [+Video]

Recreate the delicious mascarpone whipped cream from popular food truck Waffle Love with this easy copycat recipe. Perfect for topping off your homemade waffles!

I originally was looking to make a thicker, creamier whipped cream to accompany our Liege Waffles, or as you all know them, Waffle Love waffles, and while I did just that, I also threw in some clear vanilla and my goodness, it took the taste to a whole new level!!! 4 ingredients is all you need!

Ingredients for Mascarpone Whipped Cream

You won’t believe that it only takes 4 ingredients to make this tasty dessert topping! Adding mascarpone to the whipped cream helps stabilize it. We have a stabilized whipped cream recipe already on the blog, but if you don’t want to mess with gelatin, try mascarpone instead! Here is what you will need:

• Heavy Whipping Cream: you’ll need a pint of whipping cream to make this recipe
• Clear Vanilla Extract: A splash of vanilla is essential in this whipped cream and the clear vanilla makes helps it stay bright white.
  • If you don’t have clear vanilla, regular vanilla extract will work fine.
• Powdered Sugar: also called confectioners’ sugar
• Mascarpone: can be found in the grocery store near the ricotta cheese or cream cheese

The measurements of each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

What is Mascarpone Cheese?

Mascarpone is an Italian soft cheese made from cow’s milk and coagulated with an acid of some kind. It’s like Italian cream cheese. It is extra creamy and velvety in texture has the most dreamy flavor. It is similar to cream cheese but more sweet. You can find it at the grocery store near the cream cheese in a small white container usually.

How to Make Mascarpone Whipped Cream Recipe

If you thought 4 ingredients was simple, just wait and see how easy mascarpone chantilly cream is to make! Just 2 steps:

1. Soft Peaks: Add the heavy cream to a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and beat until soft peaks form. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
2. Stiff Peaks: Add in the rest of the ingredients and beat until stiff peaks form.

This whipped cream will be stabilized enough to put in a piping bag pipe on cupcakes or pies. The complete recipe can be found in the recipe card down below. Keep scrolling for all the details.

How to Use Whipped Mascarpone Cream

Now that I’ve figured out this whipped cream recipe