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Trileçe

Trileçe

Trileçe (Albanian: Trileçe or Tortë me qumësh, Albanian gheg: Trileçe, Serbo-Croatian: Trileće) is a popular dessert in Southeastern Europe, particularly in Albania, Turkey, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo and other Balkan countries. It consists of a light sponge cake soaked in a mixture of three types of milk (evaporated milk, condensed milk and whole milk), which gives it its name—derived from the Spanish tres leches (three milks), a dessert popular in Latin America. Trileçe tends to have a caramel topping. Trileçe tends to be lighter than tres leches, due primarily to differences in milks used.