The Best Mooncakes Of 2025, Tested And Reviewed By The BAZAAR Team
We’ve put mooncakes from hotels, cafes, dessert shops and more to the test.
By Nicole Ng - published
It’s that time of the year again. As the Mid-Autumn Festival draws closer, families gather, colourful lanterns come out and elaborately packaged mooncakes in all colours, patterns and flavours are unboxed and enjoyed. With cafes like Cedric Grolet, dessert shops like Janice Wong and hotels like Hilton Singapore Orchard launching their own interpretations on the festive treat each year, we’re always spoiled for options. The key question is, which ones should you get? After all, if you’re gifting colleagues, in-laws, friends and older relatives, no mooncake fits the bill for everyone.
Below, we comprehensively review a list of mooncakes and rate them based on factors like taste, packaging and value-for-money, so you can find the perfect set for your needs.
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Ralph’s Coffee Mooncake Gift Box
Rating: Taste: 4/5 | Texture: 3/5 | Flavour novelty: 3/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 4.5/5 | Value for money: 4/5
Opening Ralph’s Coffee’s mooncakes is a whole experience. This year sees a special edition, with plastic figurines of Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bear barista mascot dressed in an apron, a sign post, a telephone and a vintage-style telephone booth so that you can reuse the packaging as desk decor. The telephone booth houses six mini snow skin mooncakes, and in classic Ralph Lauren fashion, they were given the all-American treatment too. The mooncakes come in three contemporary flavours: coffee, chocolate raspberry, and the most classic of the lot: lotus custard, which has salted egg yolk.
As someone who’s guilty of having a sweet tooth, the chocolate raspberry was a favourite. It was like biting into a chocolate truffle because of the chocolate flavoured lotus paste—less sweet but more fragrant than I anticipated—and it was complemented by the heart of raspberry filling, which wasn’t too sour.
Ralph’s Coffee Mooncake Gift Box retails for $128 from now to 12 October 2025. Visit Ralph’s Coffee’s site, Lazada or Shopee to order and either opt for delivery or collect your order at Ralph’s Coffee Shaw Centre, #01-01, Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Road.
Best For: Those Who Appreciate An Upcycling Moment
Yan Ting Assorted Mini Snowskin Mooncakes
Rating: Taste: 3.5/5 | Texture: 4/5 | Flavour novelty: 4/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 4/5 | Value for money: 4.5/5
Yan Ting by The St. Regis Singapore’s mooncakes are serving up more than great looks. Packaged in a sturdy St. Regis monogrammed vanity trunk in a soft blue—complete with a grey suede interior with ring slots and larger compartments for watches and necklaces—are four snow skin mooncakes in imaginative flavours: Lychee Martini (contains alcohol), Mango Cranberry, Black Sesame, and Matcha Green Tea.
Among the four flavours, Black Sesame stood out for its pairing of sweet and salty black sesame paste with with a crispy peanut centre. The peanut lent a saltiness and crunch to the sweeter sesame paste, creating a flavour with more depth.
Assorted Mini Snowskin Mooncakes retails for $98. Visit Yan Ting’s site to order and collect at Yan Ting, level 1U, The St. Regis Singapore.
Best For: Those Who Like The Classics
Hilton Singapore Orchard Traditional Baked Treasures Collection
Rating: Taste: 4/5 | Texture: 4/5 | Flavour novelty: 3.5/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 4/5 | Value for money: 5/5
Hilton Singapore Orchard’s mooncake offerings are intentional, from the flavour selection to the packaging. Inspired by Orchard Road’s history as a road lined with plantations, the tea-infused collection of baked mooncakes sees flavours like the earthy and rich Matcha Green Tea with Melon Seeds, fragrant Peach Oolong with Macadamia Nuts and the simple yet delicate Osmanthus Honey. All three are included in the Traditional Baked Treasures Collection, along with the classic Lotus Paste with Single Yolk, though other traditional options like Lotus Paste with Double Yolks and White Lotus with Melon Seeds are also available.
In line with the theme of paying homage to Orchard Road’s past, the mooncakes are presented in a blue case with gold botanical illustrations and secured in a faux leather carrier that can be reused as a bottle holder afterwards.
Hilton Singapore Orchard’s Traditional Baked Treasures Collection retails at $63. Visit Hilton Singapore Orchard’s website to order and collect your mooncakes at Ginger.Lily, level one, Hilton Singapore Orchard, 333 Orchard Road.
Best For: Gifting A Fashionable Friend Or Relative
Four Seasons Medley
Rating: Taste: 4.5/5 | Texture: 3.5/5 | Flavour novelty: 3 | Packaging aesthetics: 4.5/5 | Value for money: 4/5
We love an upcycling moment and the Four Seasons Jewellery Mooncake box, which can be reused to store your favourite rings and earrings, is the perfect example. Inside the forest green box is the Four Seasons Medley, a quartet of traditional baked mooncakes all with a thin crust encasing lotus paste in different flavours.
The highlights for us? The Asian mum-approved Tropical Lychee Longan with White Lotus and Oolong Tea, with embedded longan pieces that add variations to the taste and texture, and the Charcoal Black Sesame with Mochi, which has a slight savouriness. Also included in the set are perennial favourites: Silver Lotus Paste with Double Yolk and Silver Lotus Paste with Walnuts and Figs.
If snow skin mooncakes are more your speed, Four Seasons Hotel also offers plenty of indulgent ones, like Black Truffle Lotus Bird’s Nest, Mao Shan Wang Durian and Kunafa Pistachio Chocolate.
The Jewellery Mooncake Box retails at $98 and is only available for walk-in orders at Jiang-Nan Chun, level two, Four Seasons Hotel, 190 Orchard Boulevard. For more information, visit Four Seasons Hotel’s website.
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Best For: Those Who Love Unconventional Flavours
Cedric Grolet Singapore Baked Mooncake Collection
Rating: Taste: 4/5 | Texture: 3/5 | Flavour novelty: 5/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 3.5/5 | Value for money: 4/5
What would a French spin on mooncakes look like? Cedric Grolet’s answer to that is a set of four of traditional baked mooncakes in dessert-like flavours: Pumpkin Seed, Peanut and our favourites of the lot, Vanilla & Pecan and Chocolate Orange, which score extra points for novelty. The Vanilla & Pecan tasted like a tart—which comes as no surprise, given that it’s an homage to the label’s signature vanilla flower tart—while the fragrant candied orange azuki paste and the slight bitterness of the cocoa nibs in the Chocolate Orange one was a winning combination for us.
Cedric Grolet’s five signature mooncakes—sold in pairs—are also making a return this year, in Coconut, Pistachio, Peanut and Banana, Raspberry and Vanilla & Pecan.
Both sets of mooncakes are packed in fairly minimal red or white boxes embellished with floral motifs.
Cedric Grolet’s traditional baked mooncakes retail at $108 for a set of four. Visit Cedric Grolet’s website to order, and collect your mooncakes at level one, COMO Orchard, 30 Bideford Road.
Best For: Those Looking For A Fresh Take On Traditional Mooncakes
Carlton Handcrafted Mid-Autumn Mooncake Selection
Rating: Taste: 4/5 | Texture: 4.5/5 | Flavour novelty: 4/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 3.5/5 | Value for money: 4.5/5
Carlton Hotel Singapore’s selection this year offers two approaches to mooncakes—crowd-favourite traditional baked mooncakes by Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant; and by its pastry team, mini mooncakes in trendy flavours like Strawberry Passionfruit and our favourite: the Da Hong Pao Milk Tea. While there are a number of milk tea-flavoured mooncakes out there, Carlton’s rendition of the well-loved beverage might just be the best one we’ve had for its rich tea aroma and the chocolate ball in the middle for extra crunch. Also in its line-up this year is the Mini Mao Shan Wang Durian Snow Skin, crafted with fresh mao shan wang pulp and no preservatives.
Your beloved classics are still available—we loved the White Lotus Paste with Double Yolk for its balance between the sweetness of the lotus paste and the saltiness of the yolks, along with the Traditional Mixed Nuts, featuring roasted nuts and seeds complemented by tangerine peel and winter melon. Other variations include Red Lotus Paste with Double Yolk, White Lotus Paste with Single Yolk and Mini Walnut Moon Tarts.
Carlton Hotel Singapore’s baked mooncakes start at $52 for a set of two, and its mini snow skin mooncakes start at $85 for a set of eight. Visit Carlton Hotel Singapore’s website to order and collect your mooncakes at the Hotel Lobby Festive Booth, level one, Carlton Hotel Singapore, 76 Bras Basah Road.
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Best For: Those With A Sweet Tooth
Janice Wong’s 2025 Mooncake Collection
Rating: Taste: 3.5/5 | Texture: 4/5 | Flavour novelty: 5/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 5/5 | Value for money: 4/5
Every year, you can count on Janice Wong and her team to dream up new and exciting mooncake flavours. While last year saw indulgent versions such as salted caramel and vanilla biscoff, this year’s selection offers local-inspired flavours like Kaya Gula Melaka Pandan Coconut, Yuan Yang Brown Rice Tea and other unique ones like Salted Egg Orange Rum and Yam Jasmine. The quartet features a colourful floral chocolate shell housing fillings customised to bring out the uniqueness of each flavour. The Kaya Gula Melaka Pandan Coconut, for example, plays on local traditional dishes, with a ganache of gula melaka kaya layered with pandan coconut, and our favourite, the Yuan Yang Brown Rice Tea Hazelnut, offers a balance between the sweetness of the hazelnut and subtle savouriness of the tea and brown rice.
This balance between sweet and savoury is in some of the floral-shaped baked mooncakes too, where flavours like the Pistachio Longan Blossom, which has a pistachio paste, gives a bite that has a hint of nuttiness. Other baked mooncakes to look forward to? Roasted Soy Bean Macadamia, Honey Mereia Vanilla and Salted Egg Custard.
Plus, if you get the set of eight, you’ll also get two plates designed by the chocolatier herself, along with two metal forks and a special packaging that can be upcycled for other uses.
Janice Wong’s chocolate and baked mooncakes retail at $49 for a set of four and $105 for a set of eight. Visit Janice Wong’s website to order.
Best For: Those Looking For A Crowd Pleaser
Andaz Singapore’s 2025 Mooncake Collection
Taste: 4.5/5 | Texture: 4.5/5 | Flavour novelty: 4/5 | Packaging aesthetics: 3/5 | Value for money: 4/5
There’s a flavour for everyone in Andaz Singapore’s low-sugar, halal-certified assorted mooncake set. Housed in a red and green cardboard box are four options: Pandan Jade and Red Date Jubilee, tributes to Singapore’s beloved pandan chiffon cakes and cheng tng; 5 On 25 Signature Tea, which blends osmanthus, oolong and pu’er tea into the lotus paste; and Silver Lotus ++, a mooncake the hotel has dubbed ‘perfect for purists’ with white lotus paste and double yolks. While all the flavours are distinct, we loved the contemporary take on the classics with Pandan Jade, which was low in sweetness but rich in flavour, just like the pandan cake we grew up with.
The Box of 4 Assorted Flavours retails for $93. Visit Andaz’s site or Shopee Mall to order and collect your mooncakes at level two, Andaz Singapore, 5 Fraser Street.
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