This Mexican bakery is a most-trusted site for its classic baked goods, including fresh pastries, flan, and you guessed it — tres leches. Offered by the slice or whole cakes, El Bolillo offers more than a dozen flavors, including Oreo, strawberry, and chocolate.

Horno Monterrey Bakery serves a variety of Mexican cakes and pastries, but the tres leches is a local favorite for birthdays, holidays, and other celebrations. Check out flavors like mocha and pineapple-loaded piña colada.

The long-running Houston bakery, owned by the Taqueria Arandas restaurant chain, has multiple locations throughout the city. Its tres leches comes in chocolate, Neapolitan, strawberry, or vanilla, and can be filled with mixed fruit or mocha. The bakery also offers a rolled tres leches, which comes in two sizes; in chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry; and can be filled with mixed fruit, pecans, or strawberry.

Located in the heart of Downtown Houston at the Underground Hall, come to this bakery and dessert shop for classic tres leches. It’s a gem in town, offering eight different varieties of the Mexican specialty ranging from its piña colada tres leches to white chocolate, caramel, coffee, red velvet, and even Reese’s varieties. Its soft cake base is prepared traditionally — soaked in three different kinds of milk, and served with a multitude of different toppings and accouterments. Consider grabbing a slice of key lime pie — one of the most popular desserts on the menu.

Urbe, the Mexican street food restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Hugo Ortega, is known for its pastry counter, and it has a worthy tres leches. Try the chocolate tres leches with chocolate shavings on top, or the traditional white cake with fresh fruit and strawberry sauce.

Though meat is obviously a focus at this Latin American steakhouse, it has developed a cult following solely for its creamy tres leches, which is topped with Italian meringue. Ask for the “flamado” version, during which a server sets the milk-soaked cake ablaze table side. Visit on Sundays, when Churrascos offers a brunch buffet that offers tres leches for dessert.

Houston’s classic fajita and Tex-Mex institution is also home to one of the most unique takes on tres leches in town. This pillowy sponge cake is topped with marshmallows and flambéed to order. The marshmallow gives it the sweet milky flavor typically imparted by the condensed milk, and the flavors are caramelized with a golden hue by way of a torch.

A growing number of Filipino bakeries have introduced ube-filled and sweet-savory combo treats to cities across the United States. At this Houston bakery, sweets ranging from pandan drinks to flaky ube hopia are an education in the many variations of Filipino baked goods culture. Taking inspiration from its Mexican and Spanish influences, its three tres leches offerings include mango, BIscoff, or the ube Oreo — all with the traditional tres leches cake base you know and infused with distinctive Filipino techniques and flavors.

Molina’s Cantina is a staple of the Houston Tex-Mex scene, and its homemade, thickly frosted tres leches can’t be missed. If the location at 7901 Westheimer Dr. isn’t in your neck of the woods, check out one of its other locations on Bellaire Boulevard and in Fulshear.

From cookies and brookies to whole cakes, Dessert Gallery has a vast list of desserts to choose from, and its tres leches is a standout among them. The yellow sponge cake is drenched in cream and evaporated and condensed milk, giving it a rich, milky texture.

A literal hole in the wall in the general landscape of Houston dining, this panaderia has been a go-to for the greater Hispanic community, churning out bolillo bread, conchas, and most importantly, tres leches. The airy cake consists of creamy condensed milk and is topped with whipped cream frosting. Stock up on all your favorite Mexican breads and pastries here at an affordable price, too.

This Peruvian-inspired bakery is stocked with gorgeous, fruit-topped tres leches with delicately-piped whipped cream and heaps of fruit. If you prefer your desserts boozy, try the tres leches flavored with pisco, a Peruvian spirit made from grapes. Or, if three milks aren’t enough for you, try the five leches cake for even more creaminess.

Bragged about by servers and bartenders as a favorite post-shift treat, this meringue-topped tres leches comes out delightfully cold, with a hypnotizing three-milk creamy concoction that you’ll want to slurp up with your spoon.

Sweet breads are front and center at this Houston bakery. Walk in and be greeted by the welcoming scent of fresh baked goods from conchas, marranitos (one of the few places in town with this gingerbread treat), cookies, and more. Tres leches is amongst its specialties, providing the warmth of a grandmother’s home, with just the right amount of sugar and fluff.