The main raw materials of moist cake are peanut powder, shredded carrot, shredded Chinese cabbage, coriander, mung bean sprouts, mushrooms, crisp seaweed, rice flour, pork leg, shrimp, garlic and so on. When eating, the stuffing made of various dishes is wrapped into a pillow shape with ripe skin (wet cake skin) as thin as cicada wings, and then dipped in various sauces according to personal preferences.

Eating moist cakes in Tomb-Sweeping Day is very popular in Minnan, Chaoshan and Taiwan Province provinces. "Wet cake" is spring cake, which is made of flour and baked into thin skin. Wet cakes with stuffing include shredded carrots, shredded pork, fried clams, coriander, peas, bean sprouts, dried beans, fish balls, shrimps, diced meat, fried eggs, fried oysters and oil.