The invention discloses a preparation technology for a New Year cake. The preparation technology comprises the following steps: S1, washing raw material rice, conveying to a rice soaking bucket, adding chlorine dioxide water solution to sterilize, and dredging out impurities floated on the water surface; S2, draining off the sterilized raw material rice, feeding into a pulping machine for pulping,adding sodium chloride, and uniformly stirring, to obtain rice pulp; S3, sending the rice pulp to a plate-frame filter press for filter-pressing, to obtain a solid filtering block, and smashing, to obtain crushed raw flour; S4, steaming the crushed raw flour thoroughly, until the total raw flour is completely cooked, extrusion-forming while hot, to obtain a semi-finished product of the New Year cake, and cooling; S5, enabling the cooled semi-finished product of the New Year cake to be placed in an aging library, aging, and delivering from the library; and S6, slicing the aged semi-finished product of the New Year cake, packaging, sterilizing, and cooling, to obtain the New Year cake. The New Year cake prepared by the preparation technology does not contain any preservatives and the like,and is long in quality guarantee period. In a storage process, cracking and yellowing phenomena do not occur.