-the time off work (aka: winter break)
-candlelight service
-gift-giving
-the celebration of joy/peace/love/the birth of Jesus
-big family meals
-Christmas lights
-Christmas music!!
-drinking tea while opening presents from "Santa"
-omelettes and cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning (every year, no matter what)
-did I mention the time off work?
This year, I claimed Christmas dinner's dessert as mine, and the hunt began for the perfect dessert...I think the hunt took me all of 5 minutes because I already knew what I wanted to make: Ollalieberry Roulade.
Okay, it is technically supposed to be Blackberry Roulade, but if you know my family, you know we loooove our ollalieberries, so naturally I ditched the blackberries and went to our trusty freezer for some home-grown ollalieberries! And it was divine.Plates were licked, "mmm"s were heard for miles around (slight exaggeration), and the recipe was filed in the "definitely make again" file. It was time consuming...three hours...but SO worth it. The cake was light, the filling smooth, and the extra ollalieberry puree drizzled on top was the perfect "cherry on top". Fantastico!
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