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Torta di Noci with Tres Leches
For the third course, Paula is making a walnut torta with tres leches.
Paula: "My cake is the last thing I'm getting into. It's just walnuts, eggs, and sugar. I think that the judges will like it. I'm experimenting right now. I have done tres leches itself and torta noci itself, but I have never married them."
Judges: "The tres leches is not what I was expecting. Tres leches is normally a very light, spongy cake that is very juicy, but this is almost like a very dense, nutty pound cake. "
"This is so dense. When it's soaked, it's just the outside that gets the milk and it falls apart. And that's when you get that old cereal. Like, what's left in the bottom of the cereal bowl?"
Judges Table
"Paula. We all had a problem with that cake. The texture was very strange."
"It just looked like a soggy piece of cake. You know, the progression of the meal. We get to the final course, it was like a screeching halt."
