How to preserve homemade moon cakes?

Moon cakes are a traditional food for fans to enjoy the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, symbolizing reunion and happiness. Moon cakes are also a traditional food. Even after the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will make moon cakes instead. Although the mooncakes are delicious, the mooncakes made by ourselves don't have any additives, and the amount may exceed the standard, so it is easy to deteriorate if the rest is simply stored at the temperature of Mid-Autumn Festival. How to preserve the newly-made moon cakes?

How to preserve moon cakes after baking;

There are several ways to save:

1. Buy a special mooncake packaging bag, let it cool naturally, put it in, and then heat seal it.

2. After the moon cake is cooled, just put it neatly into a fresh-keeping bag and seal it. According to the size of the fresh-keeping bag, how many can each bag hold?

3. After the moon cakes are cooled, put them into the fresh-keeping box neatly and seal them.

How long should moon cakes be preserved after baking?

Mainly depends on the temperature, close to normal temperature. Usually it can be packed in an hour. But we still have to see if it's cold. You can insert a small toothpick into the moon cake and pull it out. Put a toothpick on your lips to see if it's cold. Packaging does not affect the oil return, but it will take 5 to 7 days to return the oil before leaving the factory.

How long can moon cakes be preserved after baking?

Mooncake fillings are generally divided into soft and hard fillings. Soft stuffing contains a lot of water, which can only be stored for 7 days to 10 days, while hard stuffing moon cakes can be stored for about 1 month.

Moon cakes are rich in oil and sugar, and are easy to mildew and deteriorate when heated and wet. They must be stored in a cool and ventilated place at low temperature.

Generally speaking, moon cakes are soft, moist and perishable. It is best to put it in the refrigerator and take it out one hour before eating to ensure the taste. At 25℃, almond moon cakes with 100 fruits can be stored for about 15 days. The storage time of moon cakes filled with bean paste, lotus seed paste and jujube paste should not exceed 10 day; If the temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius, the storage time of moon cakes should be shortened appropriately, generally not more than 7 days; As for moon cakes such as fresh meat, shredded chicken and ham, you should eat them while buying them.

When storing moon cakes, it is not appropriate to put them together with other foods and sundries, so as to avoid cross-talk and lose their proper taste and characteristics.

If the moon cakes at home can be eaten in two or three days, they can be kept at room temperature.

When you can't finish eating for a while, you can save it by the following methods:

1, put the moon cakes into clean food bags and put them in the fresh-keeping cabinet of the refrigerator for preservation; Hard moon cakes can be stored in paper boxes, and can be kept for ten days without deterioration. It is best not to freeze moon cakes, because the taste of moon cakes will change after freezing.

2. If it is a bulk moon cake, put it in a plastic jar first, and then sprinkle rock sugar on it. Rock candy can absorb water.

3. If it is salty moon cake, cover the moon cake with a layer of plastic wrap first, and then put rock sugar. In this way, you can put the moon cakes directly indoors instead of in the refrigerator.