This Coconut Tres Leches Cake has been a favorite family recipe for so many years.
My Mom started making this when I was in elementary school and I can still remember sneaking into the fridge before bed and stealing one last bite.
It’s seriously so dang good and very, very easy to make.
You start with a boxed white cake mix. That’s right, this is an easy one to make!
Bake it according to the package directions in a 9×13 dish. Then we can fancy it up!
While it’s still piping hot, stab the cake with a fork, or a chop stick, and make a ton of holes.
Then slowly pour on a whole can of cream of coconut (like Coco Lopez — not coconut milk!!) and a can of sweetened condensed milk.
It will take about 10 minutes for the cake to soak up all of the liquid, but I promise it will.
As you can see, Lyla was adorably excited about the whole process of topping the cake!
She helped from start to finish and then as soon as I turned my back she had stolen a bite. She’s totally my mini me.
After the liquid soaks in and the cake is chilled, you spread on a nice thick layer of homemade coconut whipped cream.
It only takes a couple of minutes to whip up in your stand mixer and is so worth the effort.
Lastly, you top it with some toasted shredded coconut and chill it in the fridge until you are ready to serve it!
I brought this Coconut Tres Leches Cake to a 4th of July party and it was a massive hit.
Everyone was asking for the recipe and were shocked when I told them it came from a boxed cake mix.
Gotta love easy recipes that have great flavors and are still impressive!
Head on over to Dixie Crystals for the RECIPE: Coconut Tres Leches Cake
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Can this recipe be adapted into cupcake form? Any help would be really appreciated !
Hi. I want to make this for my husband’s birthday today but I can not find the recipe for the coconut whipped cream! Please help! Someone else asked this and was told to read the directions carefully. I have quadruple checked and no where does it say how to make it. On the Link to click on it just takes me to a page with a bunch of recipes to search through. Please help!
Made this for a church life group I’m in, and it was DEVOURED! This was so simple and easy and delicious!
Wonderfully moist cake and easy to make. The recipe didn’t mention how to toast the coconut. I spread it on a cookie sheet and popped in the oven @ 325 for 6 minutes. Made this for my adult son’s birthday. It was a big hit.
Someone on pinterest has taken credit for your Tres Leches Cake. When you click to view the recipe it takes you to a wall mart gift card sign up.
Can you follow this recipe but make them into cupcakes? I’d like to do it for a bit gray party.
*birthday*
They will be very messy, I wouldn’t recommend it since you pour liquid on top of the cake. It would make the liners fall off and be a bit of a mess!
I put coconut rum in my whip cream for the flavoring. I amnot a big fan of coconut flavoring taste like soap to me. Or you can put the cream de coco in with the whipping cream also. To make the whipped cream on top.
Bonjour j’aimerais revoir cette recette de gateau avec le lait de coco et recouvert de coconut en FRANÇAIS ….. MERCI !!!
Put some crushed pineapples on the layer after the cream of coconut baaybeeee…. And you pina colada … Dads recipe
OMG…this cake is AMAZING!!! I made it for the first time for our neighborhood 4th of July block party. Once the word got out how delicious it was, it was the first dessert that was gone. I actually saw a few people have two pieces of it. And, I can’t tell you how many people told me how delicious it was. My husband loves coconut and I think he may have told me 20 times how good it was and that it was one of the best cakes I ever made. I will definitely be making this cake on a regular basis. Thank you!!!