Duncan Hines makes a Tres Leches flavored cake mix. Yes, I use the boxed cake mixes. Inside the box is the cake mix and a separate tres leches pouch that you simply mix with milk. For this recipe (that yielded about 44 cake pops), I baked two cakes. Instead of using frosting, I mixed just one tres leches pouch with only 2 cups of milk. I poked holes in one cake as directed on the box, and poured this mix over the cake to chill overnight. For my cake pop mixture, I used the chilled cake and the 2nd cake together. Talk about stickyness BUT the flavor is yummy! I always chill my "dough" before rolling out. The cake balls remained moist and so before dipping, I did have to freeze the balls. Otherwise, we'd have a droopy sticky mess! Freezing them only for about 1 hour made them firm enough for dipping. For the army green color, I used the green Wilton's candy melts together with several drops of black candy melts until I felt the color was right. Yes, Wilton makes black candy melts.
The final picture shows one of the cake pops cut to see the inside. It is a yellow cake based cake, but surely is sweeter and moist the way a Tres Leches cake should be. It still does not mimic the traditional Tres Leches cake experience, but why not give it a try Tres Leches lovers?
