The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival that was once considered to bring good luck and success to marriage. People would thank the gods during this festival, including the moon goddess, who is believed to bless couples with conjugal bliss.
Also known as the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival, many families gather together on this special day to bond and eat mooncakes, which symbolise both the full moon and the reunion of families. Sharing these delicacies with your loved ones shows that you wish them long and happy lives.
If you’re looking for delicious mooncakes to enjoy with your family this year, here is a list just in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival this 2021.
Awfully Chocolate
If your family loves Harry Potter, inject some extra magic into your mooncake celebration with the Awfully Chocolate Harry Potter Mooncake Collection. It’s the world’s first official Harry Potter mooncake collection and was designed in Singapore with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Whether you’re giving them out as gifts or simply want to collect them yourself, you’ll definitely love this luxurious and elegant collection.
The Harry Potter Mooncake Chest is available for $128, while The Harry Potter Collector’s Edition Chest is available for $168 with Hogwarts House collectable plates.
Hong Kong MX
Hong Kong MX is known to come up with special mooncake collections every year. After their Star Wars and Marvel collections in the past, they are back this year with another fun collection the family is sure to love: The Minions! The Hong Kong MX Minion Mooncakes Bundle Sets are shaped like your favorite Minions and even come in cute Minion-shaped tin cans, which the kids are sure to love.
Each Minion Bundle Set is available for $95 and comes with both Stuart and Dave tin cans filled with four mooncakes each.
House of Seafood
If you’d like to try more localised flavours, the House of Seafood Traditional Baked and Snowskin Mooncakes are freshly made with real crab meat filling for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. They’ve got a wide array of interesting flavours that you can sink your teeth into, including Chili Crab, Black Pepper Crab, Salted Egg Crab, White Lotus with Melon Seeds, Red Bean Mochi, and even Lychee Martini.
Mix and match any four flavours from their Traditional Baked series for $28.80 per box or any eight flavours for $55 per box. The Snowskin series comes at $55 per box for eight unique flavours. Don’t miss their early bird promotion, either, which comes with four packets of free tea leaves and a $50 cash voucher from House of Seafood.
Intercontinental Singapore
Probably some of prettiest mooncakes you’ll find on the market this year, Intercontinental Singapore has released a snowskin mooncake collection. Crafted in the form of Man Fu Yuan’s signature rose shape, the collection features traditional and floral tea infusions with chocolate truffle centres. They also offer six varieties of handcrafted artisanal baked mooncakes if you’d prefer a more classic look.
The Intercontinental Singapore Snowskin Mooncakes: Secret Garden collection is available at $88 and they also have a Mooncake Virtual Masterclass if you’d like to learn the technique on traditional snowskin mooncakes. Prices for the class start at $148.
Kele
Love alcohol? Then Kele’s alcohol-infused snowskin mooncakes are the perfect fit for you. Each mooncake is perfectly handcrafted and filled with fruity notes, refreshing alcoholic flavours, and Valrhona’s premium white chocolate truffle. A crowd favorite, Kele is introducing new exciting flavours this year to delight your tastebuds.
Each Kele The Booze Mooncakes set costs $72 and includes two pieces of Lychee Martini, Passionfruit Cognac, Yuzu Champagne, and Raspberry Whisky.
Lady M
Inject some fun into your Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations this year with Lady M’s interactive mooncake offerings. The limited-edition Lady M Celebration of Lights Mooncake Gift Set features custom-designed mooncakes from Kee Wah Bakery with an interactive spinning wheel, twinkling lights, fireworks, holographic foil, and the beloved moon rabbit – definitely a spectacle to behold!
Get this set for $95, which includes three custard and three chocolate-flavoured mooncakes.
Marina Bay Sands
This year, Marina Bay Sands Mid-Autumn offerings come in stunning packaging that you can reuse well after the festivities are over. Placed in a dainty floral bag, it comes with two eco-friendly tea-infuser tumblers filled with artisanal mooncakes and Imperial Pu-Erh tea leaves for a perfect classic pairing.
The Marina Bay Sands Baked Artisanal Mooncakes set costs $88 and comes with four pieces of Low Sugar Lotus Paste with Melon Seeds, two pieces of Premium Pandan with Melon Seeds, and two pieces of Yam and Lotus Pasted with Salted Egg Yolk.
Mdm Ling Bakery
Take bonding with your family to the next level with Mdm Ling Bakery’s Deluxe International Chess Set Snakes or Ladders Set. Not only will you get to eat the lusciously creamy premium Mdm Ling Bakery Mao Shan Wang Durian Snowskin Mooncakes, but you’ll also get a fun board game to play with the family. Plus, the mooncakes were made to be 15% bigger so you’ll get more bang for your buck.
Order now and get a set of eight upsized mooncakes and a board game for only $73.60 during their early bird promotion. If you’re a KKBOX member, you’ll also get to enjoy a special discount of 28% off for every box that you buy. Just use the promo code
Nalati
If durian is your family’s thing, then treat them to the Nalati Musang King Durian Snowskin Mooncakes. It’s the perfect mooncake for all durian lovers, especially since Musang King is known to be topnotch amongst all other durians out there. Made with premium ingredients, this is a flavour you simply have to try.
Get a box of six for $59.80 or try their other flavours, Single Yolk White Lotus Paste and Single Yolk Emerald (Pandan), which are available for $48.80 for a box of six. You also have a choice to mix both flavours in a box.
SunnyHills
On a diet? If you’re counting your calories, then the SunnyHills Pineapple Custard Mooncakes is just for you. Made with Taiwan native pineapples and salted eggs, its custard filling creates the perfect balance of sweet and savoury flavours without packing on the pounds. More than just mooncakes, the special packaging also reminds us of who stood by us when the streets were erased of footprints and is meant to share well-wishes as we try to reach new peaks in life.
Get six pieces for $52.50 and be a part of their Mid-Autumn Lucky Draw, where you could win a dinner cruise for two onboard the Royal Albatross. Applicable for orders until 14 September 2021. Other terms & conditions apply.
No matter which mooncakes you choose to indulge in this Mid-Autumn Festival 2021, make sure to share them with the ones you love most. They are sure to thank you for it!
