I noticed that on all the recipes for Tres Leches cakes are "light". Have any of you used a buttercream icing to ice a Tres Leches cake? I know you can get a wedding cake from Fiesta in Tres Leches but I wonder what kind of icing they use. I am actually making this for a friend but wanted to be creative with icing so thought to use buttercream. What do you guys think?

MY AUNT FROM PUERTO RICO ALWAYS MAKE TRES LECHES.SHE SELLS CAKES AND GIVE CLASSES. SHE USES MARSHMALLOW FROSTING. I THINK THAT THE BUTTERCREAM MIGHT BE A LITTLE TO HEAVY ON THE TASTE SIDE AS TOO THE MARSHMALLOW BEING NICE AND LIGHT JUST LIKE THE CAKE IS. SO IT WILL GO WELL TOGETHER...... THATS MY THOUGHT.... HOPE EVERYHING GOES WELL FOR YOU....

SHADDI

I'm not too sure about buttercream for a tres leches. I just have tasted it either with the regular frosting (that it's made using egg whites and sugar) or with dulce de leche (caramel icing?). This last one it's called 4 leches.

whipped cream type frosting is used for tres leches

Hi, I grew up eating tres leches and make it frequently. I think regular buttercream maybe be a bit over the top sweet wise for it. Since the cake is soaked with the mixture containing sweetened condensed milk, it is already very, very sweet. If you were set on using buttercream, I would use an Italian Meringue Buttercream vs. the regular powdered sugar buttercream. HTH!

Berta

Thanks guys. I didn't even think about the the icing being too sweet. I was just thinking about a decorating icing. Thanks for bringing that to my attention

Is whipping icing still easy to use for decorations? I noticed boxes for mixing from wilton before but never tried it.

Thanks again.

I have and its wonderful..... if you read the post I made about recommending recipes you would know how well it tasted...it wasnt too heavy, and every one just died when they tasted it..... I ended up with like 3 cake orders because of it.... it will be great!