The invention discloses a method for making mellow-taste Chaoshan-style mooncakes. The method comprises the following production steps of: (1) baking salted egg yolk at the temperature of between 150 and 170DEG C for 12 to 15 minutes; (2) boiling clear water, adding granulated sugar, boiling for 16 to 18 minutes, adding lemon juice, uniformly stirring, continuously boiling for 2 to 4 minutes, andremoving a pot from a fire; (3) mixing flour with lard oil, vegetable oil, syrup and other auxiliary materials, uniformly stirring to obtain a crust raw material, fumigating the crust raw material byusing white spirit, and pressing into crusts; (4) filling stuffing in the crusts; (5) brushing egg slurry on mooncake blanks filled with the stuffing, and baking in a normal temperature baking rotaryfurnace; and (6) cooling the baked mooncakes to the temperature of between 40 and 50DEG C, and packaging to obtain the products. The process is unique, the made mooncakes have mellow taste, are smooth, fresh and sweet, and are soft, tasty and refreshing when being eaten, the crusts are nutritious and delicious, and the method is applied to mooncakes with different stuffing.