What's the filling in the moon cake?

There are five kinds of moon cakes: five-kernel stuffing, bean paste stuffing, coconut paste moon cakes, bean paste moon cakes and iced moon cakes.

1, five kernel stuffing

Wuren stuffing is the most classic and best-selling traditional mooncake stuffing. Five kernels mainly refer to walnut kernel, melon seed kernel, pulp kernel, ginkgo kernel and peanut kernel. These raw materials are mashed and made into mooncake stuffing. The moon cakes made are very chewy, especially fragrant and have the taste of various nuts.

2, bean paste stuffing

Bean paste stuffing is also very common in traditional moon cake stuffing, and it is also a kind that conforms to the taste of the public. Bean paste stuffing is mainly made by steaming first-class red beans and peeling them. After adding white sugar lard, the filling is soft, sandy, oily and sweet.

3. Coconut moon cakes

Among the traditional moon cakes, there is also a kind of fruit moon cake that is somewhat similar to the popular one now, called coconut moon cake. Coconut stuffing in traditional coconut moon cakes is made of coconut meat. After cutting, it will give off a very rich coconut flavor and see milky white. Now many coconut moon cakes are made of various jams, so the traditional coconut moon cakes are more delicious, which is also a novel taste in traditional moon cakes.

4, bean paste moon cake

Steam the red beans, mash them, add sugar, and then fry them, and the filling of the bean paste moon cake is ready. Bean paste moon cake has a strong bean flavor, and the filling is smooth and not sticky.

5. Ice-covered moon cakes

Its characteristic is that the skin can be eaten after freezing without baking. It is mainly a transparent milky white skin, but it also has purple, green, red, yellow and other colors, with different tastes and harmonious appearance.