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| Tres Leches - Dulce de Leche Ice Cream with Sponge Cake Pieces soaked in Three Milks (Evaporated Milk, Sweetened Condensed Milk and Cream) |
Today if the fourth pint from my recent six-pint shipment from the Austin-based Lick Honest Ice Cream. This flavor is called Tres Leches after the popular cake made with 'three milks': evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and cream. It was a seasonal flavor for the spring. A note to local readers that this is not available in Twin Cities grocery stores. I have had Tres Leches flavors twice before -- both from Häagen-Dazs, The first was an old retired Artisan-line flavor Tres Leches Brigadeiro which added the Brazilian brigadeiro dessert as a mix-in and the current Spirits-line Rum Tres Leches flavor which includes rum into the mix. The twist here from Lick is the use of a dulce de leche (caramelized milk) base for the soaked-cake mix-ins. Let's check it out!
Removing the lid, I see that the base has an off-white color and a few cake pieces are visible right away. Digging in, the dulce de leche in the base has a fairly mild flavor. I think this is one of those bases that serves primarily as the vehicle for the mix-ins. They both contain the word 'leche' -- it does make some sense that a caramelized milk could serve as the base for cake pieces dipped in three milks. Continuing to eat, the cake pieces are soft and sweet. I can taste the tres leches effect. It creates a soft, moist cache that melts in your mouth as you eat it.
This is a solid pint from Lick Honest Ice Creams. The soaked sponge-cake mix-ins are soft, moist and sweet. The flavor of tres leches is basically 'sweet and milky' which is sort of just the flavor of ice cream itself. So the flavor was a lot simpler than I anticipated. I can see why Häagen-Dazs added extra things in both of their implemenations. Often, simple flavors are good, though and there certainly is a place for a straight tres leches implementation out there. If this is one of your favorite desserts and you are in the Austin/San Antonion area check this one out.
Removing the lid, I see that the base has an off-white color and a few cake pieces are visible right away. Digging in, the dulce de leche in the base has a fairly mild flavor. I think this is one of those bases that serves primarily as the vehicle for the mix-ins. They both contain the word 'leche' -- it does make some sense that a caramelized milk could serve as the base for cake pieces dipped in three milks. Continuing to eat, the cake pieces are soft and sweet. I can taste the tres leches effect. It creates a soft, moist cache that melts in your mouth as you eat it.
This is a solid pint from Lick Honest Ice Creams. The soaked sponge-cake mix-ins are soft, moist and sweet. The flavor of tres leches is basically 'sweet and milky' which is sort of just the flavor of ice cream itself. So the flavor was a lot simpler than I anticipated. I can see why Häagen-Dazs added extra things in both of their implemenations. Often, simple flavors are good, though and there certainly is a place for a straight tres leches implementation out there. If this is one of your favorite desserts and you are in the Austin/San Antonion area check this one out.
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