What Are Mooncake Filling Variations Made Of? Here Are 10 Lists

Illustration of variations in mooncake fillings made of anything (Freepic/topntp26)

YOGYAKARTA Mooncake or moon cake is a cake dish that is usually eaten when celebrating the Fall Festival. The history of mooncake began in the Ming Dynasty. This round-shaped cake with a graphic shape of its skin, symbolizes the roundness and integrity, harmony, and length of life. The mooncake variation is made of the following fillings. Which taste do you want?

Wuren means five types of nuts or seeds. Including walnuts, almonds, wijens, melon seeds, Hawthorns, red beans, and others. Mooncake wuren, is a distinctive and popular moon cake taste in China.

The moon cake filled with red beans is a classic type that is liked by many people. Launching Travel China Guide, Wednesday, September 4, the filling of red beans has a sweet taste with a soft skin. This combination creates the deliciousness of mooncake.

The mooncake variation with white lotus filling is a representation of the Canton style moon cake. The contents are white lotus pasta made of fresh lotus seeds. This variation has a pleasant aroma. But because it is added sugar, the lotus pasta moon cake has high calories.

This mooncake variation with salted egg yolk filling has a solid texture. It feels quite unique because it mixes lotus seed paste or red peanut paste with an additional salted egg yolk. That is, the combination between sweet, savory, and salty blends in this month's cake type.

Mooncake with snow skin flavor is the first to come in recent years. The shape is small and the cake is clear made of glutinous rice flour. This variation is made with a little sugar and oil so that it has a soft taste. Called snow skin, because it is white in color with cheese, fruit, vegetables, or red peanut paste or black soybeans.

The moon cake of packaged pork is a traditional snack in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai areas. It contains freshtoned pork. Wrapped in meat juice and roasting, which makes it crunchy and special. Meat lovers can also try other meat moon cakes, namely the Canton-style ham moon cake.

The moon cake filled with green tea has a fresh taste. The filling is green tea powder paste. For those of you who like cakes not too sweet but have a plenary taste, you can choose a variety of green tea mooncakes.

If you like cakes with a fresh taste, you can choose mooncakes with a variety of fruit fillings. Usually the fruit used for filling includes strawberries, oranges,gets, and pineapple. There is also a durian taste that has a legit, sweet taste, and a soft texture.

Not only seeds, nuts, cheese, eggs, or fruits. Suncake variations of flower content are also available. Usually the contents are more dominant for certain pasta, but added flowers to get a fragrant aroma and taste. The flowers used for the mixture of lunar cake fillings, such as roses and osmanthus.

The moon cake filled with sweet potatoes is also a new variety. Sweet potatoes or in Indonesia called sweet sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes have good content for health.

The mooncake variation, based on its contents above, is widely sold on e-commerce or a number of bakeries. Especially at certain moments, including when approaching celebrations on the 15th of the 8th month Chinese Lunar calendar, to be precise on September 17, 2024.