A team of 16 pastry chefs has been working round the clock preparing what will be the biggest cake baked in Hong Kong.
The giant cake will be the size of a double-decker bus when it receives its finishing touches later today before being sliced up and distributed to hospital patients and the elderly.
The almond-flavoured sponge cake has been baked in the shape of a hand holding a big chocolate heart in its open palm - the symbol of the Helping Hand charity which works with the elderly.
The bakers creamed 3,000 eggs, 70 kilograms of butter, 60 kg of sugar and folded in 120 kg of flour before baking the cake for a total of 50 hours in separate sections.
The cake will be shared by 400 patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and 1,800 elderly people in homes for the aged by a volunteer delivery team.
'When I was told about the project, the first thing that I wondered was how it was possible to bake such a big cake that would not collapse,' said Roger Luk Kai-kwong, 35, pastry chef at the Harbour Plaza Hotel.