You've heard the saying, 'love what you do and you never have to work a day in your life?' Well, I think that's a bunch of crap! You can love doing something and sometimes it still feels like work, because it is work! And that's part of the intrinsic reward. But I do it for me because I love the creative challenge of it. It's really hard work at times, often discouraging and not easy to fit it in my already busy life. Loving what you do is critical! The one thing that remains that same since I started blogging is my passion for it that has not faltered. My year 1 goals look very different from my year 4 goals! It will motivate you to see how far you've come and you get some warm fuzzies in return. That's why it's important to set goals and write them down. Success means different things to different people and especially at different stages of the game. When I first started blogging and told my friend and blogging mentor Sue, from Travel Tales of Life that I wanted to be successful, she replied, "well, what does success look like to you?" I realized I hadn't even thought of that. How can you possibly measure YOUR success if you have no reference point? Success looks different to everyone. So, I try to focus on the positive things.THE FOOD!~ Other bloggers and scraper sites will simply steal your recipes, pins and photos. Then IF you're lucky, they'll give you credit for the original recipe and/or ask permission to use your photos. And they may even get more hits to their website than you. You can't copyright a list of ingredients anyway. You could work hard on a recipe for 3 years, another blogger will come along, change one ingredient and post it on their blog. Even though you work harder there will be others that don't and are still more successful and/or simply luckier than you. But unfortunately it doesn't work that way.Īnd guess what?! Blogging doesn't work that way either. When I was a kid and things didn't go my way, I'd complain, 'it's not fair!' and my Dad would always tell me, 'life isn't fair, kid get used to it." I hated when he said that. I have also learned a great deal about marketing, writing, the back end of a blog, adapting to new trends and technology and especially that the online world is truly the Wild West! 5 Blogging and Life Lessons There's so much more involved than simply cooking and snapping pictures.
I've spent a lot of my spare time over last 3 years on this blog and learned a lot along the way. I guess you just can't go wrong with whipped cream, cherry pie filling, pudding and chocolate cake all together in a bowl. Garnish (optional) shaved dark chocolate and maraschino cherries or fresh cherriesĮven when I used to spend endless hours decorating cakes and making desserts, THIS easy chocolate trifle recipe would be the one recipe I'd get asked for.
whipped cream (whipping cream with white granulated sugar added) *do NOT use whipping cream in the spray can.You only need 5 ingredients to make this recipe! You won't believe how easy it is, especially considering how spectacular it tastes and how pretty it looks! It's like making a super easy Easy Black Forest Cake with no baking! And because there's no baking required it makes a great last minute dessert for entertaining or to bring along to a potluck. This cherry chocolate trifle recipe is not only my family's favorite dessert, it's easy and only has 5 ingredients! I got the recipe from my mom, made a couple little changes and have been making it for many years. Actually, I can't believe it took me 3 years to post this Black Forest Trifle! But I have too many recipes and too little time. My very first blog post, in May 2016, was my No Bake Black Forest Tiramisu, which was inspired by THIS Black Forest Trifle recipe.
I've learned a lot of things about blogging over the last few years, but the most important things I've learned surprised me because they are not only blogging lessons, but life lessons, as well. This easy, NO BAKE, 5 ingredient Black Forest Trifle recipe, with layers of chocolate cake, pudding, cherry filling and whipped cream, makes a great last minute dessert and is perfect for summer or anytime of the year!
And there is no recipe more fitting for my 3rd year bloggiversary than this NO BAKE Easy Black Forest Trifle ! It's the recipe that inspired my very first blog post. I can't believe it's been 3 years since I started this blog! When I first started it, I really wasn't sure I'd like doing it, but here I am 3 years later and still loving it.
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