As the mid-autumn festival arrives, it means that the gifting season is here again. For the Chinese, mooncake is not just a food. It is a tradition deep in their hearts, symbolizing a spiritual feeling. During the mid-autumn, the Chinese eat mooncakes together with closed ones, or gifting mooncakes to relatives and friends to express their best wishes.
Mooncakes are usually made by Chinese restaurants, pastry shops and hotels and enclosed with beautifully designed packages. But with the advancement of technology and knowledge added with a flair of creativity, small local bakers are able to make their own mooncakes as well.
We can easily find these local bakers beginning to launch the marketing of their handcrafted mooncakes especially on social media. They have been very creative in creating different flavours combining traditional with contemporary taste in it. And it does look as delicious with beautiful packaging too.
You’ve just got to check out some of these mooncakes that they are offering.
Kitchen Confidante
Kitchen Confidante’s ZHONG QIU Collection is a design of unique flavours to achieve a harmonious taste experience which will surprise, delight, and make lasting memory for your beautiful full moon reunion.
Flavours: Classic, Callebaut 811, Dodol Durian, Neko Anko, Okinawan Sweet Potato, Xian Xiang, Maca Nola, Gui Hua.
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Mizicor
Unlike the traditional ones where you’d probably feel ‘jelak‘ after eating few pieces, these snow skin mooncakes are quite light, not too sweet, and with slightly chewy skin. It is also made with 100% fresh fruits sourced locally with premium ingredients.
Flavours: Matcha, Durian, Cempedak, Chocolate, Mango Passion, Strawberry
Just Meet
Flavours: Jasmine Tea, Sweet Mango, Creamy Custard, PuEr Red Bean, Lotus Bak Kwa, Flossy Salted Egg
Buttermood
Flavours (Snow Skin): Classic Red Bean, Taro, Pu-erh Tea, Red Dates, Pandan Lotus, Dark Chocolate
Flavours (Salted Egg Yolk Puff Pastry): Sweet Potato, Red Bean
Kind Desserts
Kind Desserts is making a healthy treat for those who are healthy conscious with their Keto Mooncakes. Sugar free, gluten free and low carbs, you’re not going to feel guilty even if you eat many of these.
Flavours: Pandan Almond Caramel, Shanghai (Salted Duck Egg + Black Sesame), Macadamia Brownies
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Mour
Mour introduces their 2022 snow skin mooncakes ‘好柿花生 Good Things Happen’, with cute persimmon and peanut shaped mooncakes which have a special meaning in it.
The meaning behind are 好柿 = 好事 (Good Things) and 花生 =发生 (Come True).
Flavours: Pandan Pure Lotus Seed, Pure White Lotus Seed, Gold Dusted Black Sesame Pure Lotus Seed
Cakes by Maine
Although it is technically not a mooncake, Cakes by Maine has combined traditional mooncakes with a contemporary pastry to make this mid-autumn special.
They have taken inspiration from the traditional flavours to make their macarons suitable for the season.
Flavours: Oreo Dark Chocolate, Cheese Cracker, Andes Mint, Callebaut Matcha, Triple Strawberry, Salted Caramel
JS Pastries & Cakes
Traditional Mooncake: White Lotus, White Lotus Macadamia Nuts & Almond, Pandan Lotus, Red Bean
Teochew Spiral Yam Mooncake
Cantonese Mooncake: Red Bean Chicken Floss and Yolk, White Lotus Chicken Floss and Yolk, Pandan Lotus Chicken Floss and Yolk, Black Sesame Chicken Floss and Yolk.
JY Food Lab
For this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, JY Food Lab’s ‘Duo in a Box’ flavours are inspired by Chinese dessert “Tong Shui 糖水”.
桃语花香 – Peach Gum Milk Pannacotta, White Fungus, Red Dates & Lotus Seed Paste, Rose & Raspberry Génoise
楊枝金露 – Mango Mousse, Mango Marmalade, Mango Crémeux, Pomelo, Coconut Sago Pudding, Vanilla Génoise
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Caketella
Known for their alchohol-based cakes, Caketella is not going to miss out the mid-autumn festival celebration with their own creation of ice cream mooncakes.
They are collaborating with Guinness and Roku Gin to bring you a series of Alcoholic Ice Cream Mochi Snowskin Mooncake.
Flavours: Guinness Draught Ice Cream, Roku Gin Sakura Ice Cream, Baileys Valrhona Ice Cream, Milo Nugget Ice Cream (Alcohol Free)
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Divini Pastry
Divini Pastry’s mooncake boxes comes in a design of golden lines that flow in harmony and cohesiveness, representing festivity, bonding, and luxury. You can mix and match the mooncakes that they are offering to suit your taste. The mooncakes and boxes are sold separately.
Flavours: Pure White Lotus, Pandan Lotus, Double Chocolate, Black Sesame
Pétale Sucré
Mini Mooncake Flavours: White Lotus with Salted Egg Yolk, Green Tea with Almond Nibs, Pu Er Tea with Salted Egg Yolk, Lotus with Melon Seeds, Royal Milk Tea, Osmanthus
Shanghai Mooncake Flavours: Green Tea Lotus with Mochi, Pu Er Tea Lotus with Mochi, White Lotus with Salted Egg Yolk, Lotus with Almond Nibs
Snowskin Mooncake Flavours: Tiffany Blueberry Lotus, Houjicha Chocolate, Mango Lotus with Crispy Caramel
By Ying Lei
Their famous low sugar Shanghai Mooncake is coming back!
Flavours: Pandan Lotus, White Lotus, Yam Lotus
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