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By: Nereida Dominguez Remedios

Image by @joefoodie via Wikimedia Commons

According to the Loco Gringo food blog, in the 19th century, there was a recipe floating around Mexico for a bread cake that was soaked in wine and topped with custard. This is thought to be a spin of the Italian tiramisu or the English trifle, both alcohol soaked sponge cakes with heavy cream, cheese and sugar! All recipes were a great way to reconstitute leftover, stale cookies, cake or bread into a great dessert.

There are several different styles of tres leches such as, coffee, chocolate, piña colada, strawberry, and coconut. But many people enjoy and prefer regular tres leches.

Oftentimes there are tres leches that have fillings like strawberry, pineapple, cookies and cream, or peanuts and another filling could be peaches.

The things you will need to make the cake will be listed below:

cake mix of choice (I use Betty Crocker’s or make your own)
sweetened condensed milk (I use la Lechera)
evaporated milk (Carnation)
regular milk (of choice)
heavy whipping cream
sugar
vanilla extract
measuring cups

The majority of time when I make tres leches I often use cake mix. I follow the instructions on the box then when I take out the cake I let it cool down for at least one hour.

Once it is cooled down I begin to poke holes all around the cake with a fork.

While it’s cooling down, you can make the milk mixture (tres leche) by pouring a can of condensed milk with a can of evaporated milk (both contain a cup and a half) and lastly you add one cup of regular milk (of your desire).

Once you have finished the milk mixture you may add it to the cake and let that sit in the fridge for one hour to a hour and a half.

Once the milk soaks into the cake you may start the whipping cream. You use a cup and a half of heavy whipping cream and one fourth of a cup of sugar and lastly a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Once all the ingredients are in a bowl you may begin to mix them into a thick consistency. After that, you may put it on the cake.

If you would like, you also can put cinnamon as a topping, or strawberries, then you will have a tres leches cake.

You may now enjoy!

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By: Sylvia Yannsdottir

Image taken by Nicholas Lindell Reynolds via Wikimedia Commons

Whale sharks are commonly known for their size. They are the third largest creature in the ocean; capable of growing up to 12 meters long, and weighing more than 3 elephants combined. Whale sharks are very solitary creatures, and although they are a type of shark, they are extremely gentle and calm compared to other animals in the ocean.

A whale shark’s life typically begins in tropical warm waters, and they spend most of their life cruising around aimlessly feeding on plankton, small fish, and other organisms. They do this by using their teeth to strain through large amounts of water, where they separate their food from water. Generally, they spend up to 7-and-a-half hours feeding each day.

The average lifespan for a whale shark is up to 100 years, if not even older, some reaching 130 years. They grow very rapidly when they are young, but their rate of growth declines and becomes steady after a while, and by the time they are 30 years old, they have reached maturity.

When it comes to reproduction, whale sharks are able to give birth in a unique way. A single whale shark is able to produce eggs that are already formed inside of its body, and over a steady amount of time, it will birth around 300 young.

One thing that makes whale sharks very unique is their patterned skin. Every whale shark has their own individual pattern of white polka dots and stripes that go across their gray bodies. Their patterned skin is not only very pretty but it can be super useful for researchers to identify, or recognize a whale shark.

Whale sharks are in fact listed as an endangered species. This is because of vessel strikes, and being caught or hurt accidentally by commercial fishing services. While it is unfortunate, it is sadly often that those two factors are at fault for the population decrease of countless species in the ocean. Luckily though, there are plenty of organizations out there that are putting effort into protecting whale shark populations.