The invention provides a making method of black tea cakes, and belongs to the technical field of black tea making methods. The making method of the black tea cakes adopts fresh tea tree leaves suitable for making black tea as a raw material comprises the following steps: picking fresh leaves, wilting, rolling, fermenting, passing through a red pan, pressing to form cakes, drying, storing, and re-drying to make finished black tea cakes. The making method provided by the invention overcomes the defects of light taste, low and bored smell, dark soup color, insufficient concentration, poor convergence and unfavorable quality stability after long-time storage of traditional technologies, all the steps are technologically improved, and all the steps are accurately grasped and mutually cooperate, so uniform fermentation, bronzed leaf bottom, mellow and fresh taste, strong and lasting fragrance, red and bright soup color and strong convergence of the Tongbai black tea cakes made in the invention are effectively guaranteed, and the quality of the Tongbai black tea cakes is obviously improved.