Chaozhou cake making includes stuffing, cake wrapping and baking. The fillings are mainly divided into bean paste and crystal paste. The bean paste is made of high-quality red beans or mung beans to remove silt impurities, steamed beans, peeled beans polished into slurry, washed with sand, left standing, put in a cloth bag to remove water, put in a wok, fried with sugar and oil, cooled and packaged. The crystal stuffing is prepared by frying sesame seeds and peanuts, peeling and chopping, frying raw onions into onion oil, dicing white gourd books and orange cakes, adding appropriate amount of water and cake powder, stirring evenly, and standing for 1 hour. Pasta is wrapped with "small package pastry" technology, that is, pastry is wrapped with water-oil crust and pastry respectively according to a single pastry crust, including peeling, that is, flour, oil, water and maltose are kneaded into water-oil crust according to a certain proportion, and then a certain amount of flour and oil are kneaded into pastry; Let the cake crust stand for 45 minutes to make it mature; Crispy skin wrapping: wrapping the water-oil skin and pastry in a certain proportion; Folding: roll the crispy pastry into 2-4 inch× 2 inch strips, 3-6 inch× 2 inch strips and 8- 12 layers of pastry with a rolling pin; Open skin; Filling; Stamp; Pancakes and other processes. Baking should be done twice, the first time baking, turning cakes, punching holes, brushing oil, the second time baking, cooling and packaging. The production techniques of Chaozhou bread include "small package crisp", "secondary baking" and "filling washing". The main varieties of Chaozhou bread are black bean paste cake, green bean paste cake, double cooked cake (including two kinds of fillings) and crystal cake (with diced wax gourd and sesame as the main ingredients).
Chaozhou bread has become an important part of Chaoshan culture with its unique production technology and profound cultural connotation, and it is also the inheritance of Chaoshan people's hometown culture overseas, which has historical, cultural, economic and social values.
With the rapid development of social economy, young people are less and less involved in the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony, which tends to drift away from the traditional Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival culture and Chaozhou bread. Chaozhou bread has more than 20 processes, and young people are willing to engage in the production of Chaozhou bread. Chaozhou bread is not suitable for mechanized large-scale processing because of its high manual composition.