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Tre Latte Olive Oil Cake

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Slices of Tre Lattes Cake being served on plates with coffee.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton

This is a tres leches meets olive oil cake, lightened up with a chiffon base to help soak in all of the milk. In Latin America, tres leches cakes are soaked in a mixture of evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream; we love their rich-yet-airy texture and wanted to combine that idea with the flavors of an olive oil cake, adding lemon for a bit of brightness. The finished result is in no way traditional.

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