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Home » Cake » Tres Leches Flan Cake

Tres Leches Flan Cake

September 8, 2008 · Emily Royce · 19 Comments

The following recipe was prepared for my Tamales cooking class. You can read about my class and get other links to recipes HERE.

Tres Leches Flan Cake Recipe

Tres Leches Flan Cake

Ingredients for Cake:

  • 1 (18.25 oz.) box butter/yellow cake mix and ingredients to prepare as directed on box
  • 1 (12 oz) can of regular Coke or Pepsi

Ingredients for Topping:

  • 1 (10.9-oz.) jar cajeta (caramel topping) or caramel ice cream topping

Ingredients for Flan:

  • 1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 (12 oz.) can evaporated milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Instructions for Tres Leches Flan Cake

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Follow instructions to make cake, but use the can of coke instead of water.
  3. Set cake mix aside and make flan
  4. Put the flan ingredients in a blender and mix well
  5. Spray the bundt pan with Pam and then cover the bottom with carmel
  6. Pour cake mix into bundt pan.
  7. Pour the flan mix gently down one side of the pan. The flan will go to the bottom and the cake mix will raise up a bit as the flan mixture fills the bottom of the pan.
  8. Set the bundt pan in a larger pan or tray with hot water. You are creating a bain marie or water bath, so you only need a couple inches of water.
  9. Put it all in the oven and it will cook for at least 45 minutes and as much as an hour.
  10. Check the cake doneness with a toothpick. The cake will stay more moist than most cakes you’ve ever made and you will see it separate a bit from the pan when it is done.
  11. Let it cool and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
  12. Take it out two hours before you plan to serve. Turn the bundt pan over and let it sit while warming to room temperature.
  13. The bundt pan should then lift off to reveal a layer of flan, topped with carmel sitting atop a very moist cake.

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  1. Unknown says

    March 30, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Looks amazing! I want to make this, but I do not understand how you can pour the flan down the side of the bunt pan with the cake batter in the pan. Any comments would be great 🙂

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  2. jules says

    April 4, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    this is an awesome cake..don't skip the coca cola substitution, it changes a box cake into something fabulous. follow the great instructions and you will have success. thanks Joelen.

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  3. josephine says

    April 10, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    Hi Joelen,
    This looks great! Will it also work with caramelized sugar (same as for leche flan) ?
    Thanks
    jo

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  4. Anonymous says

    July 22, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Just a random question, did the batter almost spill out of your pan by the time you were done pouring in the flan mixture?

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  5. Anonymous says

    November 19, 2013 at 1:55 am

    When you take the cake out two hours before you plan to serve it, do you immediately turn the pan over (as if you were removing it from the pan) or do you wait to flip it until right before you serve it? I'm worried about it separating/falling apart if I turn it over too soon.

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  6. Anonymous says

    March 21, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    I flipped mine while it was warming up and I got a soupy mess! I don't know what exactly you are supposed to do but what I did, did not work.

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  7. Unknown says

    April 16, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    I made this cake this weekend and i would have to say it was AWSOME, came out great for my first time making it, did not break, looked and tasted fantastic, thanks for this wonderful recipe

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  8. Unknown says

    May 13, 2014 at 7:31 pm

    Great cake but prefer water in the cake mix over coke I could taste the coke in the cake made it to sweet for me. Make sure to cool in the frig so you don't have warm flan oozing everywhere which is what I did the first time. I even like the cake served cold out of the refrigerator. Everyone loves this cake.

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  9. Unknown says

    November 10, 2014 at 2:49 am

    I make the chocoflan which is the same except with chocolate cake. What I do is pour the cake batter into the pan and the gently pour the flan mixture over the cake mix. Cover and bake for 90 minutes. In a ban Marie, I use a bundt pan

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  10. What's Cookin Chicago says

    November 10, 2014 at 2:52 am

    @Norma Maldonado – Yes! Here's my chocoflan cake, made in the same way using chocolate cake instead:http://www.whatscookinchicago.com/2007/05/packing-picnic.html

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  11. Anne Hernandez says

    October 2, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    Just wondered why you chose to use cola instead of water, milk, buttermilk, or other liquid for the cake?

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  12. Unknown says

    November 20, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    Our it right down the side, between cake pan and batter. Thr flan mix is thicker and heavier than the batter and will sink to the bottom

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  13. Unknown says

    January 20, 2019 at 11:49 pm

    Great recipe… Just wondering why you don't include a print option… That would make it much easier to follow the recipe…

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  14. What's Cookin Chicago says

    January 20, 2019 at 11:50 pm

    You can easily print by doing a [CTRL + P] for the recipe here or any website 🙂

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  15. Unknown says

    April 30, 2019 at 3:44 am

    Don't worry about pouring it down the side of the bundt pan. Just pour the flan mixture on top of the cake batter gently. It will mix into the batter but don't be afraid. Once it is baking it will separate. When I make choco-flan I bake it around 80-90 minutes. This is a very similar recipe. I will give this one a try. Sounds delicious.

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  16. Amelia says

    January 17, 2021 at 1:54 pm

    I got it. I posted that I had made this cake and it spilled over. The difference was that I made the yellow cake from scratch and therefore, the recipe I used made more batter than a box cake. I’m going to make again, determined to make it right. However, the flavor was absolutely amazing, sooooo good.

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  17. Amelia says

    July 4, 2021 at 11:02 pm

    I used a pretty good size Bundt pan and not only did I have to put some of the flan mixture into another baking dish, this spilled over onto a cookie sheet I had under it because I thought it would do just that. Did I do something wrong?

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  18. Amelia says

    July 4, 2021 at 11:02 pm

    Yes, my mixture did not fit into my Bundt pan, and what did poured over onto a cookie sheet I had underneath it because I was afraid it was going to do just that.

    Reply
  19. Reyes says

    October 30, 2021 at 1:29 am

    Just wondering why iis it called 3 leches flan cake ?

    Reply

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