Tres Leches cake - Best cake for my best half.

It was my wife's 20th birthday last week. Yes you read it right. Twentieth birthday. Well that's her age as far as I know! Anyways moot point. 
So I know lately she is quite in love with Tres Leches cake. She had it on different occasions and every time she had it I noted her expression going way louder than the Cadbury girl in that old add or Madhuri Dixit giving an expression after having Maggi oat noodles. No this time its not a moot point. So I thought to bring home a Tres Leches for the birthday girl. Safeway was the only option on my mind as theirs is one of the best. But then I thought why not try my hand on it. It was really been a while I had baked a cake especially since my wife had taken over baking. She bakes awesome and it was hard to bake for a person who herself is so good at it. But it was worth the try. She loved it and gave me a 5 star for my performance. The hard work paid off completely. And then seeing her so happy I asked her again, how old she turned on that birthday and the reply I got was, 20!


Well anyways, here is how I have prepared it:

Ingredients

For the Cake:

• All purpose flour(maida)        – 1 and ½ cup
• Baking powder                      – 1 teaspoon
• Butter(at room temperature) - ½ cup
• Sugar                                    – 1 cup
• Vanilla extract                      – 1 teaspoon
• Eggs                                      – 4
• Whole milk                            - ½ cup

For the glaze:

• Whole milk                         – 2 cups
• Sweetened condensed milk - 1 can(14 ounce)
• Evaporated milk                 - 1 can (12 ounce)

For the topping:

• Heavy whipping cream      – 1 and ½ cups
• Sugar                                - 1 cup
• Vanilla extract                  – 1 teaspoon

Preparation:

1.   Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a baking pan (I used one with 9" diameter X 2" height ).

2.   Mix all purpose flour and baking powder.

3.   In a big mixing vessel add the butter and sugar and beat using an electric beater until the mixture becomes fluffy.

4.   Now add eggs one at a time and blending well after every addition.

5.   Add the vanilla extract and milk and beat well.

6.   Add the flour mixture in 3 batches and beat until well blended.

7.   Pour batter in the baking pan and spread evenly.

8.   Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes. Remove the cake and place it on a plate with few inches of sides. Allow it to cool.

9.   Pierce the top of the cake all over using a fork.

10. Mix together whole milk, condensed milk and evaporated milk. Pour the mixture over the cake slowly from all over. Refrigerate the cake overnight. This is how my cake looked the next day.

11. We are just one step away from the final devourable cake. Now we need to do the topping. Add the whip cream, sugar and vanilla extract using an electric beater and beat until soft peaks formed. 

12. Spread the topping evenly over the cake and on sides. Decorate the way you want to. Refrigerate till chilled. This is how I decorated first. And then again made bit changes to present the final product.

Note: In Spanish Tres means three and Leches means milk. This cake contains three types of milks, whole milk, condensed milk and evaporated milk and hence the name.