Tres Leches

If you've never had the opportunity to eat tres leches cake, seek it out at a pasteleria (cake bakery) wherever Mexicans congregate.  It's a traditional dessert for big celebrations like quinceañeras or weddings.  I have a strong preference for pie, but tres leches is a close second in the cake department.  It can be made in a number of different ways but it's generally very spongy, sometimes with a layer of strawberry jam and fruit in the middle, and then drenched in a combination of whole milk/cream, evaporated milk, and condensed milk, thus tres leches (three milks). 

My lovely host mother here in El Grullo runs a pasteleria, and bakes all of the cakes out of her house.  When I first arrived I was overwhelmed by the smell of cake, but I don't even notice it anymore.  One night was especially busy, as you can see by the mountain of cakes cooling on the table.