The Baking Corner

There’s something about baking that makes me smile. Get ready for some sweet recipes! Enjoy!  Many more recipes to come!!! Thanks for reading!  

Announcing “The Baking Corner”

October is here and I’m super excited to announce a tasty new series called The Baking Corner! I love sharing things that bring me so much joy and in this case, the decadent smell of oven baked sweetness! In The Baking Corner we want to give you delicious, easy, baking recipes you can enjoy with …

Cake Batter Cookies

Hi sugar lovers! Here’s a recipe from PureWow.com that I just had to share. I love anything that tastes like cake batter and these cake batter cookies are an incredible discovery! I am sooo excited! Big thanks to PureWow.com for sharing with their readers! (You have to check them out if you haven’t done so …

Peach Cobbler

Hi everyone! The following Peach Cobbler recipe comes straight from our master baker, Tere, from The Baking Corner. It is so good you won’t be able to eat just one serving. Try your hand with this mouth watering dessert and let us know how it goes! We’d love to hear your thoughts on this! Buen …

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Monster Cookies

Hi everyone! Have you tried oatmeal chocolate chip cookies before? If you haven’t, you are missing out! Store bought cookies are good but they don’t come close to the fresh-off-the-oven taste of the homemade version. When I came across this recipe in the December issue of Coastal Living magazine, I just had to make it! …

Rugelach Cookies

Hi everyone! So we’re back with a tasty baked treat from The Baking Corner. These are Rugelach Cookies adapted from the Barefoot Contessa Parties by Ina Garten. Enjoy!

Favorite Blog Posts of 2013

How are you all doing? Did you have fun over the holidays? I know I did! To day I round up my favorite blog posts of 2013. It’s not only the content, but it’s also the reasoning behind the posts that matter. Welcome to ZaniMeli! (April 24th 2013, Post #1) – This was the first …

Chocolate Shortbread Logs

Straight from The Baking Corner, here comes the November recipe: Chocolate Shortbread Logs adapted from the book “Cookiemania – 100 Irresistible Recipes for Cookiemaniacs“. These delicious cookies are the perfect combination of crunchy and soft. So easy to bake and so delicious. I bet you already have the ingredients at home! The part where you …

Apple Streusel Muffins

As promised, here is the very first recipe from The Baking Corner! (Learn who’s behind The Baking Corner HERE). These apple streusel muffins, adapted from a Betty Crocker recipe, are so good I ate two of them while stuck in a traffic jam. One just wasn’t enough! I hope you make these at home for …

Banana Mini Muffins

Hello amigos! Hope you had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend! But now… It’s time for another recipe! Like every other recipe on this blog, I try to keep things easy and this one is no exception. Thanks to my friend Yanaice and her hubby for sharing this recipe with me some years ago. I’ve been …