Mooncakes are categorized by crust

Mooncakes are categorized into batter crust, mixed sugar crust, puff pastry and iced crust.

Pulp crust mooncakes are made of wheat flour, transformed syrup, and oil as the main ingredients, and it is a type of mooncake with a softer crust, which is also a more popular type of mooncake. Mixed-sugar mooncakes, on the other hand, are made of flour, brown sugar and white sugar, which are paired together, and it is a type of mooncake without filling.

Pastry mooncakes are made of low gluten flour, lard, and sugar, and their texture is mainly crispy. Ice-crust mooncakes are made from glutinous rice flour, which is white in color and similar to ice, hence the name ice-crust mooncakes.

The taste of the mooncake crust is influenced by the cooking method, and most mooncakes sold on the market are baked. The exception is the iced mooncake, which is mainly steamed in the cooking method. When you steam the glutinous rice flour, you won't have to worry about the temperature being too high and the paste falling off.

Types of mooncakes

1, Cantonese-style mooncakes: Cantonese-style mooncakes in the main market is in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places, the texture in line with the taste of the South. Selection of materials and production techniques sophisticated, characterized by thin and fluffy skin, beautiful shape, delicate pattern, clear pattern, with thin skin, fluffy, sweet, filling and other characteristics.

2, Su moon cakes: Su moon cakes originated in Suzhou, by the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, its skin is flaky, beautiful color, filling fat but not greasy, taste fluffy, sweet and salty palatable, very unique.

3, Chiu Chow Moon Cake: Chiu Chow Moon Cake, also known as Neighborhood Cake, is a traditional pastry-like pastry, characterized by its crispy skin, fine filling, non-fatty oil and non-greasy sweetness. According to the type of filling, it can be divided into mung bean, black bean, crystal and taro, etc., and the inner core contains various kinds of egg yolks or seafood.

4, Beijing-style moon cakes: Beijing-style moon cakes originated in Beijing, Tianjin and the surrounding areas, its main feature is the sweetness and skin filling ratio moderate, heavy use of sesame oil, sweet taste, crunchy texture. The main types of mooncakes are: white mooncakes, red mooncakes, puff pastry mooncakes, mooncakes with syrup.