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 favourite 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.
The Raffles Hotel mooncakes are easily the most sinful and best-tasting mooncakes I’ve ever had! They sell out really quickly too!
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!)
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 colour used for the box – a very beautiful baby blue! How pretty!
The white snow-skin exterior looks innocently plain, but obviously, the best part of the mooncake lies at its chocolatey centre…
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!
And that’s for this year. Every year, Raffles Hotel sells a different flavour of mooncakes, packed in a different-coloured tin box. This year, it’s the baby blue one. I’m so looking forward to next year’s! (Update: it’s light purple!)
Sep 24, 2007
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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.
Sep 24, 2007
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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?
Sep 24, 2007
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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.
Sep 24, 2007
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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…
Sep 24, 2007
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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
Sep 24, 2007
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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!
Jul 26, 2008
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This looks really nice. though i still prefer the traditional mooncake :) mooncakes are delicious!!
Aug 9, 2008
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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.
Aug 30, 2008
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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….
Oct 3, 2018
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Dear Mooncake lover
I just read your post after posting mine. No you were not wrong about how they used to be and you noticed the deterioration 10 years before I did!
“Sadly, the last 2 years have been very disappointing, with this 2018’s skins bordering on dry and hard, without any of the soft elasticity of the originals. Gave it a chance this year in case last year was just an off year and this year it’s even worse.”
Sep 5, 2009
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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!
Sep 2, 2011
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Sep 17, 2018
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very disappointed with Raffles mooncake this year, very dry and below standard
totally agreed with Veron and Joycze
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
to think that I went through the trouble to send a box to my son in Sydney, utter disappointed