What is the difference between iced mooncake and traditional mooncake?

Pie crust moon cake compared to you for this name is certainly not unfamiliar, these years have been very popular, especially by the young people's favorite, but in fact we do not know is that it is not a new product, as early as two decades ago has appeared in Hong Kong, the next wu yue yue to give you a good nagging it with the traditional moon cake in the end what is the difference?

First, the recipe is different

The traditional mooncake crust is usually made of wheat flour and sugar syrup, and after baking, the color is kind of golden yellow, and the color is relatively dark. The main raw material of the iced mooncake is glutinous rice, the skin is white, in addition to the use of some coloring to make different colors.

So from the appearance alone, the iced mooncake is much more fancy than the traditional mooncake, basically the colors of the rainbow iced mooncake can be put together. The traditional mooncake on the vast majority of the route to "special" to the golden yellow color.

Second, the production method is different

Traditional mooncakes like the production is completed after the need to bake, and in the process of baking also need to carry out two brushing of egg, baking is completed after the need to be placed two days waiting for the mooncake back to the oil after the taste will be more good.

While the iced mooncakes are much simpler to make, they do not need to be baked, and are directly wrapped in steamed glutinous rice flour filling and then pressed into shape with a mold. And it's usually a good idea to keep the mooncakes refrigerated so that they taste better.

Third, the taste of different flavors

Traditional mooncakes are the vast majority of the taste of the outer skin is more crispy or soft, inside the filling basically salty and sweet, including bean paste filling, fresh meat filling, flower filling, egg yolk filling, etc., the filling of a very large number of types, and the texture of the more solid.

While the texture of the iced mooncake is kind of sticky, eat in the mouth is very Q-bouncy, in the filling above the majority of delicate lubricating filling is mainly, such as cream mousse filling, fruit filling, Yangzhi Ganluo filling, etc., eat more like desserts a little bit.

In my opinion, the traditional mooncake and the iced mooncake have their own characteristics, and the audience is not the same, such as the traditional mooncake is more popular with the elderly, while the iced mooncake is a younger group like to eat a little more.

I personally prefer to eat iced mooncakes, because I feel that the traditional mooncake crust is more greasy, oil, calories, super high, for my kind of easy to fat people can not be friendly, but iced mooncakes are not the same, the texture is very soft and sticky, but also a slightly sweet taste, I super love it