Yunnan's flower cakes are usually roses that are in bud or just blooming. After screening, impurity removal, cleaning, and adding white sugar, honey, and cooked cake powder, they are processed into flower fillings. They are then wrapped in pastry skins and baked before being made. It is understood that in order to ensure the freshness of the finished product, the production of flower cakes requires great speed and must be completed in a short period of time.

With the increasing market recognition of flower cakes, not only Yunnan, but also Pingyin in Shandong, Qiandongnan in Guizhou, and Linxia City in Gansu have developed flower cake industries. To meet the diverse needs of the market, the raw materials for making flower cakes are not limited to roses. For example, Linxia City successfully launched a series of peony flower cakes using local unique purple peony petals as raw materials; Furthermore, Anshun, Guizhou has explored the current flower elements and launched the Eight fold Cherry Blossom Flower Cake.

In the context of expanding market demand, traditional handmade methods can no longer meet the needs of large-scale and industrial development of flower cakes. Flower cake production enterprises have begun to introduce automated production equipment to expand the production capacity of flower cakes. Compared with traditional manual production, a major feature of automated assembly lines for producing flower cakes is that machines and equipment can continuously produce, and the products produced are of consistent size and stable quality, meeting the market's demand for high-quality products. For example, Zhenyuan Town in Guizhou Province has invested 8 million yuan to build a rose cake production line, as well as a production line for flower tea, flower sugar, and beverages. After the project is put into operation, it can achieve an annual output value of over 50 million yuan.