Because making mooncakes is labor intensive, many families just buy them from bakeries. Over the years, mooncakes have slowly evolved from a Chinese delicacy to something as common as ice cream cake. To adapt to today s health conscious and Westernized lifestyle, many bakeries offer miniature mooncakes and fat-free mooncakes. Some are made of yogurt, jelly and fat-free ice cream. To be competitive, bakers boast about how little sugar and oil they use in their mooncakes.
Customers can pick and choose the size and filling that suits their taste and diet.
However, the traditional bean-paste filling with egg yolk mooncake is still very popular. Mooncake Molds Mooncake molds are custom-made with the insignia of the baker. Many Chinese people are willing to pay a higher price for mooncakes from reputable bakers. Thus, the baker's insignia is very important. Bakers use a wooden mold to shape each mooncake.