• Mash the ripe bananas.
• In a separate bowl mix the butter, brown sugar, and white cane sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla. Save the egg whites for the Italian meringue.
• Sieve in a separate bowl the dry ingredients: baking powder, flour, and salt.
• Beat the egg whites medium-stiff separately to obtain that “tres leches” porous consistency. In this way, your banana bread will absorb the milky essence of the "tres leches" mix. Stop once the egg whites grow medium-stiff peaks.
• Grease your mold with oil or butter.
• Beat the yolks in the wet mix, add the mashed bananas, and half of the dry mix, and a bit of whole milk.
• After mixing a bit, add the rest of the dry mix and the whole milk.
• Fold the egg whites with a spatula and mix everything with encircling movements. Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be completely mixed.
• Add the mix to the mold and fill it halfway.
• Bake this in a preheated oven to 350°F or 176°C for approximately 35 to 40 mins.

"Tres leches" mix

• While that’s baking, make the “tres leches” mix.
• Add whole milk, evaporated milk, and condensed milk into a large measuring cup. Now, mix this well and leave it aside.
• Take the banana bread out of the oven and make holes in it with a fork. Then, let it cool for 20 minutes.
• Once it's at room temperature, soak it with the milk mix and leave it in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.
• Just before you take your dessert out of the fridge, you can do the frosting.

Frosting | Italian meringue | "Lustre"

• The traditional “tres leches” frosting is an Italian meringue -In Honduras, we know it as "lustre".
• To make the sugar syrup add sugar and water to a pot. Now, without mixing it, cook on medium heat until it reaches 240°F or 115°C.
• While that’s heating up, add your room temperature egg whites to a mixer.
• You can do it with a hand mixer, but beat them really fast with some lemon juice. That will help to stabilize them.
• When the egg whites have grown and the sugar syrup is ready remove it from the heat. Then, add the syrup slowly to the egg whites.
• To decorate your banana bread transfer it carefully to a plate. It should look completely soaked with the "tres leches" mix already. Now, add the frosting only on top, and spread it with a small spatula until it’s smooth. Then literally add “the cherry on top”, it's the final touch, with such a beautiful color.
• Then, serve and enjoy your gorgeous tres leches banana bread!