The invention relates to a making method of deep-fried cakes. The making method comprises the following steps of mixing a part of flour with baking soda and warm water to obtain watery dough, performing dough recovery on the watery dough, adding hot oil to the other part of the flour, performing mixing to obtain oily dough, and making fillings for standby application; rolling the recovered watery dough into a watery wrapper, coating a layer of oily dough on the surface of the watery wrapper, coiling the watery wrapper into a coil, tugging the coil to obtain much dough for making sesame seed cakes, and wrapping the fillings with the dough; putting forming dies into a tray, wherein each forming die comprises a template, and die holes in an array shape are formed in each template and are through holes, putting the dough in which the fillings are wrapped into each of the die holes, and performing compressed forming on the dough into the die holes to obtain semi-finished cakes; and putting the tray in a material distributing area of sesame seed material spreading equipment, starting the sesame seed material spreading equipment, spreading sesame seeds to the surfaces of the semi-finished cakes on the templates, after the sesame seeds are spread, taking out the templates from the tray, then conveying the semi-finished cakes into a deep-frying device, performing deep-frying, after deep-frying, taking out the deep-fried cakes, and performing oil drainage. The production method is simple and reliable, and the sesame seeds are uniform to spread.