Raffles Hotel: Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache

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The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival if you prefer, is here again! Of course, what’s Moon Festival without mooncakes right? Therefore over the next 3 days, I would be featuring some unique and yummilicious mooncakes.

We’ll start off with my most favorite mooncakes of all — champagne truffle and ganache snow-skin mooncakes from Raffles Hotel! Now, that’s a real mouthful ain’t it? And trust me, it really is.

Photo by mehmeh

The Raffles Hotel mooncakes are easily the most sinful and best-tasting mooncakes I’ve ever had! They sell out really quickly too!

Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel

These mooncakes come in boxes of 8. At more than $5 apiece, they certainly don’t come cheap. (but they are worth every penny because they’re so good!)

Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel

The tin box containing these cute mooncakes is decorated with a Shanghai-style artwork surrounded by swirls and florals. What is really unusual is the unconventional color used for the box — a very beautiful baby blue! How pretty!

Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel

The white snow-skin exterior looks innocently plain, but obviously, the best part of the mooncake lies at its chocolatey center…

Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel Photo by mehmeh

The champagne truffle! Once you bite into the white chocolate shell, the inside is the soft and delicious ganache that fills your mouth. Ahhh… Pure bliss! It’s very, very satisfying too so eating just one at a time is already enough!

If this isn’t the most delectable mooncake dessert, I don’t know what is. What makes it even more sought after is that you can only have it just once in a year!

Snow-skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel Photo by micamonkey

And that’s for this year. Every year, Raffles Hotel sells a different flavor of mooncakes, packed in a different-colored tin box. This year, it’s the baby blue one. I’m so looking forward to next year’s! (Update: it’s light purple!)

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Veron Ang is the founder and chief editor of Sparklette. She lives in Singapore and has dined and traveled across the world. She also runs Sparklette Studio, a web design and development firm. If you'd like to connect with her, head on over to the contact page or follow her on Twitter: @sparklette.

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sandy
September 24

i personally don’t like mooncakes. haha. but after reading about this one with champagn truffles- i really feel like giving it a try! hahaha. thanks for the recommendation.
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Veron
September 24

No problem! I don’t particularly like traditional mooncakes either. But these “modern” mooncakes come with a twist that really appeal to me. Plus, who can say no to champagne truffles?
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Joyz
September 24

I’m crazy over these Raffles mooncakes!! I have vendors offering to treat us mooncake every year and if they do ask so nicely what type we fancy, I’ll always tell them Raffles snowskin is the only one worth going for! The skin is really delicate with that generous ball of filling be it champagne or mocha truffles. Both are good btw, but the champagne has a touch of luxury to it! There’s another interesting one with dark choc crunchy pearl….sounds good huh? Anyway heard from someone that these boxes go by the handful, usually reserved for corporate customers.
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pkchukiss
September 24

I love lotus seed mooncakes! They’re sweet, and have a light sticky texture, and I’m hooked to them! Wait a minute, I’m hooked to satays too! And chocolate fondue, and…
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J
September 24

hmmm.. Nicey.. But no mooncake for me till I get home this weekend, though.. Poor thing.. And ohh.. Rushed something out and sent it over already. Thanks for your after-work gift..! But I might still be going off for the 10:30AM appointment, Ms boss.. Hiak hiak hiak.. ;-p
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Veron
September 24

Joyz: Wow, I didn’t realise how rare these mooncakes are. They were a gift from someone!
pkchukiss: …and just about every other sinful thing there is! Wait a minute — looks like we both love the same food!
J: Don’t call me boss leh. I’ll get scared. Thanks for the hard work!
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chumpman
July 26

This looks really nice. though i still prefer the traditional mooncake :) mooncakes are delicious!!
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Georgios Paraskeva
August 9

Greeting from Cyprus Greek Island, i am a pastry chef..came in this site by accident…i was wondering if you can tell me a book with monncake recipes and other chinese desserts, thanks.
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Mooncake lover
August 30

Veron and Joyze
So disappointed in Rafffles Snowskin Champagne Truffle mooncakes this year :(
Is my memory better than reality? or were the powdered white perfumed skins actually baby soft, smooth and stretchy, until you bit into the thin crisp shell of the white chocolate truffle; bit through it and reached the oozy centres and had that perfect mooncake combination explode in your mouth??
This year to my utter sadness, they now have, in my opinion, stiff doughy harder skins with none of the softness and elasticity of past. The chocolate shells were thicker and harder altho they still did have oozy centres and same perfume.
Is it just my boxes? Mooncakes were driven straight home….
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Charlie
September 5

hi all,
i feel a tad out of date as i have yet tried raffles champagne truffle n ganache mooncakes.. but anyway, is the filling between the chocolate core and the snowskin outer layer lotus paste? I don’t fancy lotus paste mooncakes actually.. I always go for something new and not the norm types. not lotus/green tea or some other varieties which in fact are merely flavours added to lotus paste to give the tastes. Well, I’m hopping tt this champagne choco is purely chocolate paste or sth just not lotus paste..thanks in advance!
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