Enjoying mooncakes is not only to taste delicious desserts but also an elegant tradition to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, the once “adequate” festive pastry is now too “luxurious” for modern diets. People nowadays has easier access to sugar and fat, excessive intake of sweets raised people’s awareness of health and calories. Therefore, bakeries and food suppliers started to modify the recipes. Compared with traditional moon cakes, new developed mooncakes contained less fat, sugar and flour. Aside from the ingredients, the look of mooncakes also advanced. Vivid colors, exquisite patterns and elegant shapes are favored by consumers.
Delicate and Tender: Momoyama Mooncake
The Momoyama mooncake originated in Momoyama, Japan, also known as Japanese mooncake. Unlike the crust of traditional Cantonese mooncakes, the skin of Momoyama mooncake is more tender and less chewy. Instead of flour and peanut oil, Momoyama mooncake is made of white bean paste, egg yolk, butter and milk. Momoyama mooncakes contain less sugar and fat, which are healthier than traditional mooncakes. Moreover, the delicate skin can be dyed with natural ingredients such as matcha powder, cocoa powder, purple potato, etc., creating colorful looks for the dessert.
Cool and Soft: Snow Skin Mooncake
Snow skin mooncakes are unbaked mooncakes invented by Hong Kong bakers. The crust of the snow skin mooncake is made of cooked glutinous rice flour with rice flour, wheat starch, butter and milk. Wrapping up the filling with skin, then pressed and molded, the snowy skin will be cooled in the refrigerator. Icy cold, delicate, soft and smooth, the skin of plain snow skin mooncake is white. However, by adding different natural colorants, snow skin mooncake will be eye-catching and diverse. Without syrup and lark, snow skin mooncakes are healthier than Cantonese mooncakes.
Look Good and Taste Good: Automatic Mooncake Production
Hundred Machinery provides automatic filling and molding machine with a wide range of optional devices. For example, a double filling feeder (standalone/desktop type) can make Momoyama mooncakes. A jam filling feeder can make custard mooncakes while a solid filling device can make Cantonese mooncakes. Additionally, cutter, rounding device and etc. are also helpful for automatic mooncake production. In addition, we composed a Dream Team of prestigious oil, flour, yeast and raw material manufacturers of Asia. We provide not only professional baking guidance for machine users but also recipes for automatic food production.
Hundred Machinery has developed a 3D food shaper for forming moon cakes into exquisite three-dimensional shapes with designed molds. Golden ingots symbolizing wealth, cute animals and marvelous roses were formed in an instance. Elevating the value of moon cakes with exclusive and distinctive designs.
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