You may not be doing anything wrong--Tres Leches is a soggy gross mess of a cake, even when you order it from a bakery.

Tres leches, means “three milks” in Spanish. No accents.

This one is easy and fool proof, but you will need to use google translate:

https://annaspasteleria.com/post/la-mejor-torta-tres-leches#recipe

I use Ina Garten’s recipe.

I liked Pati Jinich’s recipe when I made it: https://patijinich.com/tres_leches_cake/

Anyone here have a go-to recipe they have made successfully multiple times? Every recipe has a least a handful of disasters: cake deflated, cake was mushy, etc. Some recipes call to invert to cool- cue complaints about the middle falling out of the cake. Some say to grease, some say metal and not glass baking dish. Ina Garten’s recipe doesn’t invert and I am leaning towards this one.