For me, doing a crystal moment note in everything I do and sharing it here thru my blog, it already gives me a wonderful feeling. But blogging and at the same time making money, it is far more too wonderful!

I am hoping that this blog of mine will be more fortunate, that I hope I can grab more opportunity so I can make money with it while I am enjoying blogging.

Bloggerwave sure is a good opportunity for at-home mommy like me.

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Haven’t had much time lately to do blogging and stay online that long that is why this blog is not that much updated. But soon as I get a chance I’ll be updating this one. My health isn’t that much in good condition so I hope my reader here will bare with me.

So below was my finished product, it was not that so presentable but it was so delicious (i love my own work).  I forgot the real name of this cake so I made up something to call this… coffee lover chocolatey cake..  Actually what I liked with the cake was, its being moist and soft.  I used a ready-made betty crocker’s chocolate frosting so I won’t include the original coffee frosting for this cake.

Here’s the Ingredients:

Butter, for greasing the pans

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans

2 cups sugar

3/4 cups cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 cup buttermilk, shaken (I used 2 tablespoon vinegar plus milk to make it 1 cup as substitute)

1/2 cup vegetable oil

3 eggs, at room temperature

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee

Direction:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 2 (8-inch) round cake pans.  Line with *parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans. (* I used regular foil instead)

Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of **electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. (** I used the regular mixer and just mixed it on low speed work still good).  In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.  With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry.  With the mixer still on low, add the coffee, and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.  Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 35-40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.  Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a colling rack and cool completely.

Place 1 layer, flat side up, on a flat plate of cake pedestal.  With a knife or offset spatula spread the top with frosting.  Place the second layer on top, round side up, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.

*** I just put on some decorations on my cake so it will look a little better (at least for me).

I always love to take picture wherever I go, and sometimes my husband gets annoyed with me already but still he understood my being me.  He actually encourages me to take a photography class this summer but as I search on the University and Community College photography lesson I felt like I’m lost in transition.  I don’t know some terminologies they used but as I read the course description and based on my own understanding it was just pretty basic things that I can learn just browsing online or probably just buy a software and do it myself.   I’m not that much interested yet but I’ll see.

This picture above was taken when we were at the park, while waiting for my precious daughter to get tired from playing I took the chance to look for some object I can use as a model for my crystal moment capture.  I thought this flower was the best so I am sharing it here.  I hope it looks good enough for you pals .

“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed…It feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

]]> http://crystalmoment.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/cloud/feed/ 0 Mylou nature, cloud http://crystalmoment.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/11/ http://crystalmoment.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/11/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 17:03:40 +0000 crystalmoment http://crystalmoment.wordpress.com/?p=11 ]]> Since I was in my elementary years, I am already fascinated with the bridges. I kept wondering how they built it, yes I thought before I could probably be an engineer, but it was not realized since I took a different course. And until now I still have this awe look whenever I see a bridge and I will remain being fascinated by it.

This picture was taken while I was in the park together with some friends. We walked under the bridge and I thought that moment it was so wonderful, I did not waste a single second, I right away took a crystal moment picture of it.