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A sweetheart cake or wife cake is a traditional Chinese pastry, is a big round Chinese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon
Winter melon

The winter melon, also called white gourd or ash gourd, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable. The fruit is fuzzy when young....
 almond paste
Almond paste

File:Almond paste .jpgAlmond paste is made from ground almonds or almond meal and sugar, typically 50-55%, with a small amount of cooking oil, heavy cream or corn syrup added to bind the two ingredients....
, sesame and pork lard, spiced with five spice powder (Chinese spice blend of fennel seed, star anise, licorice root and cloves) . Sweetheart cake is the literal translation of Lou Pho Piang from Cantonese dialect. There are many classes held in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 for making sweetheart cakes.






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A sweetheart cake or wife cake is a traditional Chinese pastry, is a big round Chinese pastry with flaky and thin skin made with winter melon
Winter melon

The winter melon, also called white gourd or ash gourd, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable. The fruit is fuzzy when young....
 almond paste
Almond paste

File:Almond paste .jpgAlmond paste is made from ground almonds or almond meal and sugar, typically 50-55%, with a small amount of cooking oil, heavy cream or corn syrup added to bind the two ingredients....
, sesame and pork lard, spiced with five spice powder (Chinese spice blend of fennel seed, star anise, licorice root and cloves) . Sweetheart cake is the literal translation of Lou Pho Piang from Cantonese dialect. There are many classes held in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 for making sweetheart cakes. The sweetheart cake, though it has such a long history, is still popular among many in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Many people in Hong Kong, as well as professional chefs, bake also "modern" varieties of this cake.

Legendary origin

There are two legends that attempt to explain the origins of the Sweetheart cake. One tells the tale of a couple that lived a very poor life in imperial China. They loved each other and lived in a small village.

Suddenly, a mysterious disease spread. The husband's father became very sick. The couple spent all of their money in order to treat the man's father, but he was still sick. The wife sold herself as a slave in exchange for money to buy medicine for her father-in-law.

Once the husband learned about what his wife did, he made a cake filled with winter melon and with a crispy crust. His cake became so popular that he was able to earn enough money to buy his wife back.

There is another version where the man was eating at someone's house and recognized his wife's pastry and was reunited.

See also

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    Marry girl cake

    Marry girl cake is a traditional Chinese pastry. It is considered one of the more ceremonial cakes used as gifts in the traditional Chinese wedding ceremony, hence the name....