Esmeralda Cardenas
Esmeralda Cardenas, known online as Esmeralda en la Cocina, shares Mexican home cooking, breads and desserts through recipes and step-by-step videos.
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YouTubeOverview
- Known online as
- Esmeralda en la Cocina
- Born
- Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
- Work
- Cooking videos and recipe development
- Featured recipes
- Tamales and champurrado with Masienda
Mini bio
From the family kitchen.
Esmeralda was born in Uruapan, Michoacán. In Masienda’s introduction to her tamales tutorial, she recalls helping her mother shell corn, cook it with lime and grind it on a metate to make tamales. She now makes them with masa harina.
Recipes to cook along with.
As Esmeralda en la Cocina, she shares home cooking alongside breads and desserts. Her videos include banana bread, cheesecake, pastry cream and buñuelos, often with written ingredient lists so viewers can follow along.
Sharing her methods.
Her work with Masienda brings her recipes to the brand’s cooking videos and recipe library. The published dishes include chicken tamales in salsa verde, champurrado and banana-leaf tamales with pork adobo.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2025Tamales with banana leavesRecipe contributor and cooking demonstrator
- 2024Tamales de pollo en salsa verdeRecipe contributor and cooking demonstrator
- 2024ChampurradoRecipe contributor and cooking demonstrator
Quotes
¡Vamos a hornear juntos!Esmeralda Cardenas, YouTube
An invitation in the description of her November 2025 condensed milk bread tutorial.
Trivia
- She remembers grinding corn on a metate with her mother to make tamales.
- Her cream cheese frosting recipe is intended for cinnamon rolls.
- She shares her own version of café de olla and says it differs from the traditional method.
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Cook along with Esmeralda on her official channels.
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