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EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE

This recipe only takes one bowl, just imagine, easy chocolate cake!

Ingredients

3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup nonfat buttermilk
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup hot strong black coffee
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray. Line the pan with a circle of wax paper.

2. Whisk flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.

3. Add buttermilk, brown sugar, egg, oil and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add hot coffee and beat to blend. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

4. Bake the cake until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes; remove from the pan, peel off the wax paper and let cool completely. Dust the top with confectioners’ sugar before slicing.

(Makes 12 Servings)

Calories Per Serving: 139

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Being able to sell art is not an easy task. Even those people who are already art collectors are hesitant to be the first buyers from obscure or not so well known artists. Additionally, it is way more difficult to sell to people who are not really art collectors and do not know anything about you. However, once you get to make that first sale of your masterpiece, selling again would be a lot easier than before.

Is Your Art Ugly?

As an artist, you should not start doubting yourself about your creativity and skill with your art if you are unable to sell them or only sell a couple. There are several reasons on why people who already like art do not buy pieces often. Such reasons are related to their knowledge about art, self-confidence, identity crisis of what their taste really is, and how much it matters to them what other people would say about the pieces they buy.

A lot of people in the art industry, whether they are new ones or old, usually worry of what other people would say about their purchase, or that their colleagues and friends would make fun of them. Even though a person likes a certain artwork of yours, they are probably not sure on how well done the piece is, whether it's really worth the price, or whether you as an artist is established enough in your career to warrant such prices.

Thus, your job as an artist is to help those people that admire your art feel secure and comfortable with you both, as an artist and a businessperson. As you do this, you help alleviate whatever other fears that they may have and have a higher probability that they'd buy your art.

If you don?t know where to start, then here are some tips on how you can make admirers of your art buy your piece and hopefully in time, turn them into patrons.

Tell Them: It's OK, Really

Before you even start off with your sales talking, you should be able to show people that purchasing your artworks is okay. You can try talking about other collectors that have bought your pieces, what kind of people they are and how long you have been transacting with them. Doing this would make your prospective buyer let go of the thought that you're just some bozo trying to sell him a piece of junk and get hold of his cash.

However, if you haven't had any collectors, then you should say so honestly. You should tell your prospective buyer that you are open to the possibility of selling your art to them, although you haven't really done this before.

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As you have learned, eliminating negative thoughts from your life is the cornerstone of both the power of positive thinking and the law of attraction. But how do you do that? How can you think positive thoughts and move away from the negative?

Well, it’s easy. You have to start turning your thoughts on their ears. Learn to take a negative thought and spin it into a positive one. I’m going to give you a few examples you can use to turn negative thoughts into positive.

Negative Example #1: “Why did HE get the promotion? It’s not fair!”

Positive Response: “I wish I had gotten that promotion, but I will work even harder this year, and next year I will get one.”

Negative Example #2: “I’m so tired of being poor! When will this end?”

Positive Response: “I would like to be wealthy, so I will work harder to save money, spend less, and get more done at work.”

Negative Example #3: “I give up! I’ll never get this right!”

Positive Response: “I haven’t gotten it right, yet. But if I keep trying, I surely will very soon.”

Negative Example #4: “I’m so stupid. Why did I do that?”

Positive Response: “I made a mistake and I feel bad, but I’m going to use this as a learning opportunity so I never make the same mistake again.”

As you can see from these examples, it’s easy to turn a negative statement into one that is more positive. You don’t even have to believe the positive statement when you say it. If you repeat it a few times, you will often begin to believe it.