Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake is a classic sweet filling specially developed for the traditional Chinese pastry "wife cake". The filling is light beige in color, slightly transparent, and has a soft and filamentous texture. Its main ingredients are peeled and seeded winter melon, maltose, white sugar, coconut flakes and vegetable oil, and wheat starch is added in moderation to stabilize the filling structure.

winter melon filling for wife cake Features

1. Retain fiber and strengthen the traditional handmade feel

Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake specially uses 2.5mm thick winter melon shreds, which are dehydrated at low temperature and then mixed with sugar and oil for frying, so that the finished product retains a moderate fiber feel in the taste, which fits the classic style of traditional wife cakes that are "crispy on the outside and tough on the inside". Compared with the completely cottonized filling core, this filamentous taste has more handmade flavor and regional characteristics, and is favored by traditional pastry brands.

2. Strong baking adaptability, not easy to burn and discolor

The maltose content of Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake is 12% and the oil content is about 9%, ensuring that it will not be over-colored or burnt at 190~200℃ baking conditions. The filling can stably maintain color and moisture at high temperatures to avoid "bursting" or oil seepage from the outer skin, which is particularly suitable for commercial batch baking of pastry-type snacks.

3. Flavor complex to improve consumer acceptance

The filling is added with imported coconut shreds from South Asia and natural vanilla essence on the basis of the sweetness of winter melon, making its flavor more complex and soft. The aroma release curve is slow and layered, and does not cover the cream aroma of the crust, which is suitable for different markets' preference for "sweet but not greasy" and "chewy". The sweetness is controlled at around 28%, between the traditional Cantonese style and the modern improved type.

4. Stable molding, suitable for a variety of production processes

Winter Melon Filling forms a stable semi-solid shape after hot frying + low-temperature cooling, with strong anti-extrusion ability, suitable for traditional hand-wrapping and hand-pressing molding, and also supports fully automatic filling equipment operation. It has high flexibility and is not easy to overflow or break even in the sealing and pressing stage, ensuring the integrity of the appearance and improving the qualified rate of finished products.

Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake Application

1. Standard filling for wife cakes of "Tai Chang Bakery" in Hong Kong

The classic wife cake series of Tai Chang Bakery, a time-honored brand in Hong Kong, all use Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake, which is matched with its homemade puff pastry to form a traditional taste of crispy outside and soft inside, with sweet fragrance. This series of products is sold to Chinese supermarkets in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and is the old Hong Kong flavor product line that overseas buyers focus on.

2. Designated filling for the wedding cake series of "Guo Yuanyi" in Taiwan

Kuo Yuanyi, a traditional pastry brand in Taiwan, uses Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake in its "Happy Pastry" and "Moon View Pastry" series to enhance the retro style. Winter melon filling is paired with red bean paste and pine nuts to form a three-layer composite structure, which is widely used in festival gift boxes and wedding cake markets, and is a major selling point of Taiwan's exported snacks.

3. Malaysia's "Xiyuetang" handmade shortbread products

Malaysia's famous Chinese pastry chain Xiyuetang launches wife cake gift boxes every year during the Lunar New Year festival, using Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake to make "original", "coconut", "osmanthus" and other flavors of wife cakes, which are hot-selling in Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and exported to Johor Bahru and Singapore. The specialty stores have long-term and stable cooperation.

4. Canada's "Yimei Dim Sum" Chinese Pastry Line

Canada's large Chinese chain baking brand Yimei Dim Sum widely sells wife cake products in its Toronto and Vancouver stores, using Winter Melon Filling for Wife Cake as its only winter jelly filling product. Because of its moderate sweetness and low oil flow, it is very popular with the local refrigerated supply chain and is widely used in North America's room temperature + cold chain mixed transportation mode.

5. Application of the export gift box version of "Daoxiangcun" in mainland China

The Beijing Daoxiangcun Foreign Trade Division uses Winter Melon Filling as the core filling of the wife cake in its "Hong Kong-style shortbread" gift box export version, with double-layer crust and independent packaging. It is exported to Southeast Asia and many countries in Europe and the United States, and is especially popular among holiday gift buyers and supermarkets' own-brand OEM projects.