Having long term food storage is a great thing to do, but what happens when you have to use it?  Have you ever cooked with powdered milk or powered eggs? Knowing how to use the ingredients you are storing is a great way to be prepared for emergencies and also to make sure you are rotating your food storage.

While looking for recipes that use powered milk I ran across everydayfoodstorage.net that has a lot of recipes for using different items in your food storage. I am a sucker for sweets and when I saw her latest post about Tres Leches cake I felt the need to share it.

FOOD STORAGE TRES LECHES CAKE

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Pam or grease a 9 X 13 cake pan

Blend in blender: (put water in first)
1-1/2 Cup water
1/2 Cup + 1 T Dry Powdered Milk

In a mixer:
1 box yellow cake mix, dry
1/3 Cup oil
3 large eggs
1 Cup of the milk mixture from above and reserve the rest in the Refrigerator.
Beat the cake mix, oil, eggs, and 1 Cup milk mixture for 2 minutes on med. speed in the mixer.
Pour into prepared cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
COOL in the pan before continuing.

In Blender:
1/2 Cup hot water
1-2 T butter
1 Cup Dry Powdered Milk
1 Cup Sugar
Blend VERY WELL in blender
add reserved milk mixture above & blend briefly again.

Using a dinner fork, poke holes all over the cake.
Pour the milk mixture evenly over the cake.
Refrigerate at least 1 hour or until liquid is absorbed.
Over night is best!

Serve with whipped topping
Garnish with Sliced Almonds or Toasted Coconut

Store left overs in the Refrigerator

This recipe isn’t totally made out of food storage so let’s talk about a few other things that we can change up to use our food storage.  First, sun ovens are a great survival gear tool to have for any emergency; it allows you the convenience of an oven without needing power.  Second, you can replace your eggs and butter with their powered forms offered for long term food storage.  Learning how to cook and bake with ingredients from your food storage will save a lot of trial and error when you actually need to cook with them.