Birthday Cake for Myself

I had always make it a point to bake a birthday cake for each and every family member every year but never once for myself. Today, or rather yesterday, since it is now passed midnight, I decided to make an exception.

It was an extravagant tofu cheesecake, with the use of fresh berries and Chambord raspberry liqueur. Both of these two ingredients are my personal favourite, including the tofu cheesecake. What made it extra special or personalised was the liqueur. Almost 3 years back, while I was searching for different types of fruit liqueur to experiment on cakes, I found out raspberry was available and upon chancing a  picture of Chambord, I was immediately captivated by it's bottle design. Since then, I started my quest to find it at different wine and duty free shops. Whenever friends or family had a chance to travel, I would request them to help me check it out but to no avail. I finally found it at Phuket airport last year and you can never imagine how happy I was when I bought it. However, I found it too precious to open the bottle all this while, until now.

Special birthday cake for me to share with my family

My precious Chambord Raspberry Liqueur

I simply serve the cake as a after dinner dessert, no birthday song and lighting of candle as I had planned. It was not my birthday date and since I am used to bringing cake for dessert, I doubt my family suspected my intention. I was happy though, watching them enjoying the cake silently and myself, I had two servings with my elder brother. The fact that he initially rejected my offering after knowing it was a tofu cheesecake but had two servings after trying a mouthful would attest to how good the cake was!