Sweet or savoury, traditional or snow skin, mooncakes have long been the go-to dessert for the Mid-Autumn Festival. With salted egg yolks set within the traditional lotus or red bean paste, they are the perfect symbol for the festival linked to the full moon. In recent years, snow skin mooncakes (created in Hong Kong in the 1960s) have become popular a lighter and trendier treat to enjoy.
With the Mid-Autumn Festival rounding the corner, it stands to reason that you’ll want to buy the best mooncakes you can find. Whether you’re looking for something that embodies the original myth of Chang’e or a more adventurous rendition, here is Vogue‘s selection of the most delicious and opulent mooncakes to buy in Singapore.
Janice Wong
Dessert magician Janice Wong has pulled out all the stops in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival, with three different mooncake collections. Her signature drip-painted chocolate mooncakes have been brought back, with new flavours like Sea Salt Pecan and Dark Chocolate and Coffee and Chocolate. If you’re looking for something with a savoury nod, turn to their inventive dried fruit and nut-infused snow skin mooncakes, made in collaboration with local company Tai Sun. From the buttery Gula Melaka Macadamia to the tangy-sweet Yuzu Cranberry, you’re in for a surprise with each bite. But if your true craving is for something simple and traditional, worry not: their Double Yolk Lotus Paste Mooncake is always there.
Orders can be made online.
Lady M
With six locations across Singapore, Lady M is known best for their mouthwatering crêpe cakes. Thankfully, their mooncake offerings for the Mid-Autumn Festival are no different. If you can remember their last Mid-Autumn excursion—which saw them create a light-up lantern stashed with mooncakes—prepare to be wowed again. This year, they have designed a ferris wheel complete with glowing lights and filled with six mini mooncakes. Look forward to two delicious flavours: the Chocolate Mooncake oozes with a silky chocolate custard, while the classic Custard Mooncake sees rich egg custard enveloped in a buttery golden mooncake shell.
Orders can be made at Lady M outlets or online.
Green Common
While they are usually associated with sustainable dining, Green Common has branched out this year with two brand new sets of vegan mooncakes. The Vegan Custard Mooncake is a plant-based take on the classic we all know and love, while the Vegan Mixed Nuts Mooncake offers surprising new flavours, like Figs with Pistachios & Oats and Mixed Nuts with Blueberries & Purple Sweet Potato. The perfect gift for the health-conscious, these mooncakes contain no cholesterol or trans-fat, and are free from added preservatives and artificial colouring.
Orders can be made online.
TWG Tea
TWG Tea is making sure that this Mid-Autumn festival, tea aficionados will have something worth celebrating with their range of tea-infused mooncakes. The Constellation mooncake is infused with their Singapore Breakfast Tea, whilst the Harvest mooncake features red bean paste blended with their Vanilla Tea. In contrast, their snow skin mooncakes are bright re-imaginings—from the black Moonlight, made with white lotus, pistachio paste and saturated with Iron Monk Tea, to their show-stealing Rainbow, which is patterned with a wheel of colours, concealing a Moon Dance Tea imbued lime lotus paste with golden chocolate pearls.
Orders can be made online.
Cherry Garden at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
The Mandarin Oriental’s Cherry Garden has cemented itself as the place for eclectic reinventions of traditional Cantonese fare. This year, Cherry Garden is offering mooncakes that blur the line between conventional and contemporary flavours. Choose from their Tieguanyin with Macadamia Nuts or the Low Sugar Silver Lotus Paste mooncakes, customisable with double or single egg yolk. Also look forward to more exotic flavours, such as the Japanese-inspired Chestnut Paste with Hokkaido Milk, fruity Biluochun Green Tea with Guava and Chestnut and luxurious Lychee Martini and Chocolate Truffle.
Orders can be made online.
Godiva
This year sees the return of chocolatier Godiva’s signature mooncakes, with the introduction of two brand-new flavours. Past favourites boast Asian flair, like the Matcha Kumquat White Chocolate or the Ginger Mango Chocolate. Meanwhile, their new offerings ooze luxury and panache, like the Black Truffle Apricot Milk Chocolate made with real Italian black truffle and milk chocolate, and the Lychee Oolong Tea White Chocolate, showcasing smokey oolong tea and white chocolate accompanied by a crunchy crêpe dentelle interior.
Orders can be made online.
Fairmont Singapore
Fairmont Singapore is proving once again that they are experts in dreaming up new flavours with a diverse selection of classic and modern mooncakes. Their Plain White Lotus Baked mooncake is baked to golden-brown perfection and filled with a velvety lotus paste, available with both single and double egg yolks contained within. Meanwhile, their snow skin mooncakes consist of both childhood favourites and more adults fancies. Try the Champagne Truffle and Chocolate Ganache, with a decadent dose of liquor and silky chocolate. But our true favourite is a tribute to Singaporean nostalgia: the candy-inspired White Rabbit Candy snow-skin mooncake.
Orders can be made online.
