Baking Melon Filling is a functional fruit filling product developed for various high-temperature baked foods. It is mainly composed of candied winter melon cubes, maltose syrup, concentrated pectin, natural melon flavor and edible acidity regulator. The product has a light yellow or golden appearance and is rich in 3-5mm winter melon particles. It is suitable for direct application in high-temperature baked products such as puff pastry mooncakes, sandwich bread, pies, cake rolls, etc.

Baking Melon Filling Features

① High temperature stability

One of the biggest advantages of Baking Melon Filling is its excellent high temperature stability. Baking Melon Filling adjusts the sugar ratio and pectin structure so that it will not have common problems such as "burnt edges", "sugar overflow" or "internal cavitation" in a high-temperature baking environment. After baking tests, in a commercial convection oven at 190℃/20 minutes, whether it is used as a core sandwich or a surface filling, the product can maintain its original color and diced fruit structure, and the appearance is full and does not collapse. It is especially suitable for products with high process stability requirements such as mooncakes, egg yolk cakes, and pineapple cakes. The internal winter melon particles are still elastic after baking, avoiding the formation of "dry cracked core" due to rapid evaporation of water, ensuring the consistency of the taste and commercial appearance of the finished product.

② Moderate sweetness

In order to meet the healthy trend of low sugar and natural sweetness in the European, American and Southeast Asian markets, Baking Melon Filling controls the sweetness at Brix 60-62, which reduces the amount of sugar added by about 15% compared with traditional winter melon puree fillings (Brix 68-72). At the same time, by adding natural fruit aroma factors, the three-dimensional flavor is effectively enhanced to make up for the oral satisfaction after the sweetness is reduced. This formula has been tested and fed back by customers such as Kojin Bakery in Malaysia and Melon’s Cake Lab in Canada. It is suitable for the development of healthy baking base products such as whole wheat dough, low-sugar cookie crust, and coarse grain toast, which helps the brand position in the "no additives", "low GI" and "child-friendly" market segments.

③ High industrial compatibility

The product has undergone industrial rheological testing, and the viscosity is controlled at 6500-7500cps (25℃). It is suitable for mainstream automated equipment such as fully automatic vertical filling machines, rotary filling machines, and three-stage cutting filling devices. It has good wire breaking resistance and no dripping during filling. Customers such as Taiwan Donghe Pastry Factory reported that in the mooncake line, the product can achieve 60-80 fillings per minute with a qualified rate of more than 99%, greatly improving the production rhythm and stability. The product structure supports personalized adjustment, such as increasing the fruit cube content to 70%, thickening or de-thickening treatment, and adapting to different equipment discharge diameters and product weights; at the same time, it supports hot injection and cold injection dual processes, and shows good fluidity between room temperature and 80℃, which is an ideal fruit filling solution for high-capacity factories.

Baking Melon Filling Application

① Taiwan Jiade Cake Factory Mooncake Series Core Sandwich

Baking Melon Filling has long been one of the core fillings of Taiwan's "Jiade Cake" series of mooncake products. As a Chinese pastry brand with decades of history, Jiade is exported to the United States, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries. The products need to maintain bright color, full taste and stable structure after long-distance transportation. Since 2018, our company has customized Baking Melon Filling for Jiade. The pulp content is 65%, the viscosity is medium to high, and it can adapt to the high-speed production rhythm of its semi-automatic mooncake filling line. After baking, it retains a slight honey flavor and does not compete with the main aroma of egg yolk and lotus paste. The annual export volume of this product reaches 90 tons, becoming one of its stable filling supply solutions in the festival mooncake export market.

② New bread filling core of Kek Melaka, a Malaysian bakery chain

Kek Melaka, a Malaysian bakery chain brand, launched a new series of "Melon Custard Bun" in 2024. The sandwich part uses our Baking Melon Filling, combined with its hot filling + refrigeration composite process, to create a healthy bread sandwich with a strong winter melon flavor and a sweet taste. The brand's stores are located in Penang, Malacca, Selangor and other places, focusing on the product characteristics of the fusion of local flavors and Southeast Asian fruit flavors. Baking Melon Filling sold more than 50,000 units in the first month of its launch, and was welcomed by a large number of young consumers. Customers especially reported that the fillings did not leak or collapse during the refrigerated shelf life, and the immediate experience of eating was good. It is planned to further expand the winter melon series to sandwich cakes and small biscuit filling lines.

③ Canadian Chinese supermarket OEM cookie filling project

In 2023, a Chinese supermarket chain OEM baking brand in Toronto, Canada launched "Winter Melon Sandwich Crispy Biscuits" during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The fillings used the customized version of Baking Melon Filling provided by our company. Due to the high requirements of the North American market for the sucrose content and raw material traceability in the fillings, our company cooperated to provide English nutrition facts, CFIA material declarations, and halal certification copies, and successfully passed the local import clearance review. Under a 180°C baking environment, the filling can keep the sandwich layer from overflowing or cracking, and the cookies as a whole are crispy and non-greasy. The shelf life after packaging is up to 8 months, which meets the needs of long-distance transportation and multi-point sales. The customer plans to purchase it for a long time and put it online on Amazon CA.