Pastel Tres Leches

Cake:
10 eggs (large)-separated
1 cup AP flour
1 tbs. baking powder
1 cup gran. sugar
1 tbs. vanilla extract
powdered sugar
wax paper

--Preheat oven 350 degrees. Spray 2 9 x 12 pans and put wax paper (sprayed on both sides)
Sift flour and baking powder together.
Beat yolks until light-lemon color (20 min. or so)--very thick, like pudding...they should ribbon when you lift the beaters...
Add 1/2 cup sugar 2 tbs. at a time.
Add vanilla & beat 3 min. more.

Whip egg whites until soft peaks form.
Add 1/2 cup gran. sugar slowly.
Fold whites into yolks 1/3 at a time with rubber spatula.
Add flour all at once and fold in.
Spread batter evenly in two pans and bake 20-30 min. or until cake comes away from the sides of pan, not wax paper (learned that the hard way)

Filling:
2 cups heavy cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups strawberries (sliced with an egg slicer is best)

whip cream and vanilla until soft peaks form
Add sugar and fold in strawberries
put in fridge.

Take cake out of oven when ready, let rest 5 min. then tip out on two clean hand towels sprinkled with powdered sugar.

make soaking liquid: (Make 2x depending on your taste, whether you like it super moist or not)
3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup halfnhalf
1 cup evaporated milk

mix together with whisk.

Take first cake right side up, top with filling and place 2nd cake top side down on top. Skewer the cake all over and then drizzle (slowly) the soaking liquid all over. Place in fridge over night.

Now Tía tells me that I should just use egg whites and sugar, but I love a buttercream frosting and most of the cakes I've seen just use a glorified cool whip which I do not like...the one cake I loved used buttercream...it was also the most beautifully decorated (for a baptism).
** Should you decide to use whipped cream, it is very yummy, especially with cinnamon sprinkled on top...but only if you make it from whipping cream...don't go getting the blue tub!!

Frosting:
1 cup butter(2 sticks)
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
4 tbs. milk
(the recipe I found for this said half, but it wasn't enough to cover the cake well enough to decorate. I suppose you could do it in two halves and tint one...)

Beat soft butter in a mixer until soft and fluffy (about 10 min.)
Add vanilla and mix 2 min.
Slowly add powdered sugar until well incorporated.
Add milk.

Cover the cake with frosting, using whole or sliced strawberries to decorate.