10 unique mooncakes to try this Mid-Autumn Festival

This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, which takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar, falls on Sep 21.

The festival, which happens during the time of the year when the moon is at its brightest, symbolises prosperity and reunion for the whole family. Families would gather to eat mooncakes, as it expresses love and best wishes for loved ones.

In recent years, artisanal and modern spins on mooncakes have been made to bring something new to the table.

Here are 10 unique mooncakes to try this Mid-Autumn festival.

These mooncakes are the perfect gift for fans of Star Wars and that cute little Grogu, better known as Baby Yoda! Based on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Home’s Favourites has launched two Mandalorian-themed mooncakes sets.

“The Mandalorian” and the “Grogu” sets come with two snowskin top-grade mao shan wang durian mooncakes placed in tins. It also comes with a cooler bag.

Each set costs $47.60. You can get it here.

The Mala chicken floss is part of a mooncake set made by Birds Of A Feather, a restaurant that specialises in contemporary Sichuan cuisine.

The mala mooncake is packed with sichuan spices that leave a mild spicy taste in your tongue that would enhance the salted egg yolk in the mooncake. The savouriness of the chicken floss will also add an additional texture as you bite into it.

The set comes in a box of four featuring two flavours. The other flavour is single yolk macadamia nuts with low sugar white lotus paste.

You can order them for pick-up or delivery on their website.

Try out these funky drip-painted chocolate mooncakes by Janice Wong. She was awarded Asia’s Best Pastry Chef San Pellegrino Asia’s 50 Best for 2013 & 2014 and these chocolate mooncakes have been their signature mooncake since it’s launch.

The mooncakes are set on a base of chocolate sponge cake and are coated in chocolate with colourful paint-splatter designs.

There are a total of four flavours – caramelised sea salt pecan dark chocolate, coconut vanilla biscoff, coffee chocolate and peanut butter.

The box of eight mooncakes cost $98, but there is currently an early bird discount of 25 per cent until Aug 30. You can get them here.

The international favourite Hong Kong MX Mooncakes have teamed up with everyone’s beloved Minions for two mooncake sets featuring Dave and Stuart.

Both minion sets come with four mooncakes. There are two flavours available – purple sweet potato mooncakes for Dave’s set and lace lotus seed paste mooncakes for Stuart’s.

The pair also dons goggles that lights up, which can be a nice keepsake in the room to act as  mini night-light.

You can get your hands on these limited edition Minions-themed mooncakes at selected Cold Storage, FairPrice, Giant, 7 Eleven outlets or from the Hong Kong MX’s Singapore website.

If you’re on a diet or have dietary restrictions, fret not! The Goodness Eats’ Keto Mooncakes would allow you to enjoy mooncakes guilt free.

These mooncakes are made without flour and sugar, and are low carb keto and diabetic friendly.

Flavours include lotus with yolk, almond with yolk, black sesame with yolk, ondeh ondeh, matcha black sesame, matcha cheese, hojicha cheese and chocolate truffles.

The mooncakes come in boxes of four, six and eight mooncakes. A box of four comes with only one flavour, while the box of six and eight comes with a variety of flavours.

Order these keto mooncakes on their website and get them delivered to your doorstep or collect it yourself at their store.

Speciality kueh lapis store The Lapis Place is back this year with their rainbow snowskin mooncake.

This year, The Lapis Place has made the mooncake into a bigger size so you enjoy more of the rainbow-coloured kueh lapis encased with rainbow snowskin.

Apart from the rainbow snowskin mooncake, there are also other unique snowskin flavours like hazelnut chocolate, black sesame and even pineapple yuzu.

The mooncakes come in boxes of two or four and you can purchase the exclusive mooncake on their website here.

Calling all Sanrio fans! Cheers and Fairprice Xpress have launched My Melody and Hello Kitty-themed mooncake sets.

The My Melody set comes with a lunch bag and includes a chocolate lotus caramel lava and pandan lotus mango lava that oozes molten lava.

The Hello Kitty set comes in a collector’s box featuring Hello Kitty and friends for it’s design and comes in four flavours – bamboo charcoal white lotus salted egg lava, durian lotus musang king lava, white lotus double yolks and pandan lotus single yolk.

There’s even a third set – Sanrio Odyssey Music Box, that has four mooncakes and six pieces of postcards and envelopes in a wind-up music box.

Oh my mochi is a small local business that focuses on handcrafted mochi, and for the Mid-Autumn festival, they have created mochi mooncakes in the shape of a cute rabbit.

It comes in a box of eight, comprising two red bean, matcha milk, hojicha milk and one baileys choco and strawberry milk flavours each.

Apart from the rabbit shape, designs also consist of two rabbits on a moon and a dango design in the box.

The box of eight costs $88 and you can get them through their website here.

In partnership with Warner Bros Consumer Products, Awfully Chocolate has released the world’s first ever official Harry Potter mooncake collection.

There are two sets available: The Harry Potter mooncake chest and the Harry Potter Collector’s edition. Both sets come in a vintage red velvet chest with a set of four Hogwarts House tins with a mooncake each inside.

Gryffindor is represented by the red yam lotus single yolk flavoured mooncake, Hufflepuff is represented by pumpkin white lotus mooncake with double yolk, Ravenclaw is represented by blue pea pu-er lotus with melon seeds mooncake and Slytherin is represented by matcha black sesame mooncake with black and white sesame seeds.

Potterheads can purchase these sets for a wizarding Mid-Autumn festival from the awfully chocolate website here.

Feast your eyes on these gorgeous limited edition galaxy glazed mooncakes by Rachelrax Cakes.

The galaxy mooncakes come in boxes of four that are standard size of 7cm while the boxes of eight that are mini size of 4cm.

Flavours include lotus with salted egg, honey purple sweet potato lotus with taro, yuzu lotus with lemon curd and black sesame lotus with white sesame peanut.

The box the mooncakes come in resembles a book. When you open it, it reveals the mooncakes individually encased in a plastic, making for a unique experience.

You can get these aesthetically pleasing and Instagram-worthy mooncakes on their website here.