Hector Wong is a young man from Honolulu whose passion is baking and decorating cakes....He does have a day job, but that is only fuel to feed his cake baking obsession.
Hector's idol and mentor is Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of The Cake Bible and other cookie, chocolate and cake related books. Hector was one of two cake testers who made all of the cakes in Rose's newest book, Rose's Heavenly Cakes before the book was published. As his inspiration, Hector used the rose as his decoration of choice at the recent 2nd Annual Hawaii Healing Garden Mango Festival held on the grounds of the Keauhou Outrigger Beach Resort on Saturday, July 31st.
Before appearing at the Mango Fest on Saturday, Hector demonstrated how he decorates his cakes on Friday afternoon at the NELHA Seafood Farmers Market and that same evening for the local chapter of the American Chef Association in one of the ballrooms of the Keauhou Beach Resort. Hector flew to Kona carrying all his own tools and several cakes he had baked before leaving Honolulu.
The macadamia shortbread cakes demonstrated at the mango festival were baked for him by Patti Kimball, culinary arts instructor at the Konawaena High School.
The cake consisted of 6 tiers of macadamia shortbread layers; each layer was spread with a different flavor of tropical fruit jellies and the fresh mango slices forming a rose.
.................and here is the spectacular Heavenly Rose Mango Cake
The setting is the wall outside the lobby of the Keauhou Outrigger Beach Resort, Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i Island.
It was gorgeous and absolutely delicious....I got just a tiny little taste because we had well over 200 people sample this one at the event!
Posted by: Sonia | July 11, 2011 at 10:40 AM
It's Gorgeous. I once watched a Papaya carving demo of a rose done so beautifully.
Posted by: Marilyn | July 11, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Gracias, Aymee, pero el cake no es mi creacion. Como explico en el articulo, el cake fue la obra de Hector Wong que es Chino-Peruano y vive en Hawaii.
Posted by: Sonia | November 24, 2010 at 05:14 PM
Por Dios! que maravilla, usted es una artista!
Posted by: Aymee | November 24, 2010 at 04:56 PM
Mahalo, Jenn....Hector is truly gifted!
Posted by: Sonia | August 09, 2010 at 05:01 AM
Beautiful pictures, Sonia and great write up! Hector is so awesome!
Posted by: Jenn | August 09, 2010 at 04:17 AM
Hi, Susan....thank you.....I can't take credit for the cake - I'll let Hector take a bow - but I do for the pictures!
Posted by: Sonia | August 05, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Sonia,
What a beautiful cake! Those mango "petals" make my mouth water. Thanks for sharing the photos!
Posted by: Susan Billie Taylor | August 05, 2010 at 11:04 AM
aloha, Ken...mahalu nui. I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent with all of you. Both Friday and Saturday events were great fun...mahalo for your part in all of it!
Posted by: Sonia | August 04, 2010 at 03:53 PM
Thanks Sonia -- you really made this a special weekend for all of us!
Posted by: ken love | August 04, 2010 at 03:46 PM