Genoa Cake

Kangaroo Island’s Vida Symons was something of a legend in South Australian show cooking circles. At the age of 93 she made it into the final of the 2007 State Genoa Cake Competition. It wasn’t the first time; in the first 22 years of the contest Vida, her daughter Claire Stoyel and Claire’s daughter Mary-Ann won eleven times, often competing against each other.

This is no mean family feat given the