The Office Christmas Party

Yesterday we had our Christmas party at work which was a potluck during the lunch hour. Not so impressive if you look at the Christmas party Brent and Nanette went to for Brent’s work but this is Iowa. We do jello salad, not celebrities. As a matter of fact, jello salad is exactly what I brought. I love it and would love to get a jello cookbook with all kinds of jello salad in it. Yum! I actually signed up to bring that because I can do that in my sleep and I don’t have to worry about screwing it up. But I had a second, secret dish that I wanted to make to but it was a new one and I didn’t want to advertise it in case things went poorly. It was a triple layer Lemon Raspberry Cake, the best kind of cake. For the few of you that know what Brent and Nanette’s Lemon Raspberry wedding cake tasted like, it wasn’t nearly that good. But nothing is. Still, this was a very good looking and tasting cake. The recipe seemed easy enough to make and it definitely was. The triple layer factor made it seem very impressive, as did the fresh raspberries and lemon zest curls on the top. I received several compliments on it, some even still today from people I didn’t even realize I worked with or who had eaten it. I wish I had taken some pictures of it before it had been enjoyed so much. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me so this is the only picture I did get of it and it was with my cell phone camera. Let’s just pretend it originally looked like the picture on the Betty Crocker website, okay, because that’s close enough!