Every hotel in Singapore puts out a mooncake box come August, and let’s be real… most of them look the same.
This year’s actually interesting picks range from a family bakery’s Teochew spin on the pistachio-kunafa trend to a wildlife-conservation box from Mandai that doubles as a jewellery case once the mooncakes are gone.
A few come with genuine gimmicks, like a working lantern, a glowing moon projector, an interactive world clock, but the mooncake tastes just as good.
Here are the 15 best mooncakes to get this Mid Autumn Festival on 25 September 2026.
1. Wah Lok Restaurant
If you haven’t played with a lantern since you’ve grown up, here’s your excuse to do so this year.
Wah Lok’s collection introduces a Tangerine Peel White Lotus Paste with Single Yolk baked mooncake alongside new Hong Kong Milk Tea and Baileys Cheesecake snowskin flavours.
But don’t throw out the box! It doubles into a functioning lantern with a battery-powered light already built in.
Price: From $85 (box of 8 mini snowskin pieces)
Early bird: 30% off all boxes till 10 September with select credit cards
2. Xin Cuisine
Xin Cuisine’s Poet’s Dream Box draws from the verse “月是故乡明” (the moon is brightest over one’s hometown), framed by a full moon and blossoms on a blush-toned cover.
Their snow skin mooncakes have always been one of the best in Singapore, and this yaer featuers two new flavours: Orange Whiskey and Elderflower Apple.
Price: $84 (box of 6, mini snowskin)
Early bird: Up to 35% off till 20 August
3. Lady M
The prettiest mooncake box this year doesn’t come from a hotel — it comes with its own light-up moon.
Lady M’s Moonlit Reverie Gift Set pairs its signature mooncakes with a glowing moon topper tucked into a satin-lined tote bag and a handwritten notecard.
For gifting, upgrade to the $199 Cake Bundle, which comes with a Sesame Mochi Mille Crepes on the side.
Price: $98 (Moonlit Reverie Gift Set)
4. Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree
This is Mandai’s first year launching mooncakes, and I’ve gotta say, they’re impressive.
Each of the four mooncakes carries a different Mandai Wildlife Reserve resident. The Gibbon flavour is made with Owa Coffee grown under forest canopy by SwaraOwa, an Indonesian group protecting the critically endangered Silvery Gibbon, while the Panda flavour pairs rose tea with wolfberries and lychee.
The four-tier keepsake box is designed to be repurposed as a jewellery box once the mooncakes are gone.
Price: $85 (Assorted box of 4); $90 (Mix & Match box of 4)
Early bird: 20% off pre-sales till 31 August with code EBMAF26
Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree
5. Hung Huat Cakes & Pastries
A 50-year-old family bakery beat every hotel pastry kitchen to the pistachio-kunafa trend.
Hung Huat has been baking out of the same shopfront since 1976, and this year it folded the pistachio-kunafa filling that’s taken over dessert menus everywhere into a flaky Teochew mooncake shell instead of the usual chocolate dome. The Pistachio Kunafa Teochew Mooncake ($68, box of 4) layers crunchy pistachio and kunafa through a dark chocolate centre, wrapped the traditional Teochew way rather than the imported original.
Price: $68 (box of 4)
6. Man Fu Yuan
What if we told you these mooncakes are inspired by the various districts in Bugis?
The Nanyang Reverie Snow Skin Mooncake Selection maps a flavour to each district around Frasers House — Nanyang Charcoal Coffee and Dark Chocolate Truffle for the kopitiam culture of Bugis, Emerald Chendol with Gula Melaka Truffle for the Southeast Asian dessert traditions nearby, and Velvet Milk Tea with Orange for Golden Mile’s Thai influences.
Price: $102 (box of 4)
Early bird: Up to 35% off till 9 August
7. Janice Wong
What does a chocolate artisan know about mooncake? A lot… apparently.
The Limited Edition Wooden Lantern opens to reveal eight mooncakes plus a ceramic plate and two matching forks made exclusively for the collection, finished in deep crimson beneath a teal crown.
Her chocolate mooncakes are hand-painted into individual floral shells, with flavours like Aged Pu’er Mandarin Lotus Seed Praline Sea Salt doing more work than most mooncakes even attempt.
Price: $105 (Wooden Lantern set); mooncake tins from $49
Early bird: 20% off till 31 August, 10% off 1-15 September
8. Goodwood Park Hotel
Skip the durian queue — this one goes tropical with guava instead.
Goodwood Park’s new Pink Guava with Jambu Snowskin joins their already-hyped Cempedak and D24 Durian snow skin flavours, giving its 2026 collection the widest tropical-fruit range on this list.
It’s a genuinely different flavour direction from the lotus paste and chocolate everywhere else; worht a try
Price: $53 (box of 2)
Early bird: Up to 25% off (minimum 2 boxes) till 30 August
9. Crowne Plaza Changi Airport
Fitting for an airport hotel, Crowne Plaza Changi Airport’s Lunar Voyages leans into the idea that travellers across time zones still look up at the same moon. The lid on this year’s box actually works, with two rotating layers track the moon’s phases and a 24-time-zone world clock.
The Premium Musang King Durian Snow Skin returns after last year’s sellout, and every box comes with a guaranteed-win Scratch & Win card for stays and dining vouchers.
Price: $86-88 (box of 4)
Early bird: 35%+5% off for a limited time
10. Godiva
Four chocolates built around the Mid-Autumn moon, with no lotus paste in sight, here’s what we recommend at Godiva this year.
The Walnut Cinnamon Chocolate is shaped like a pumpkin and pairs almond praline with pumpkin cinnamon ganache, while the Apricot Almond Caramel Chocolate leans into dark chocolate, almond ganache and crushed almonds.
Available individually or in select gift boxes, minus Changi Airport Terminal 3 and the online store.
Price: From $49 (Carré box of 16)
11. Cat & the Fiddle
Singapore’s cheesecake specialist made a durian mooncake before it made another cheesecake flavour this year.
The Mao Shan Wang Durian Mooncake Set wraps pillowy snowskin around premium Mao Shan Wang durian, packed into a bold red “Crimson Moon” box.
Price: $75.9 (box of 4)
Early bird: 25% off (1-5 boxes) till 31 August, scaling to 35% off for 21+ boxes
12. Hilton Singapore Orchard x Old Seng Choong
Here’s a pretty solid collab this year — Old Seng Choong brings its Hojicha Pine Nut and Orange Red Bean Taro flavours to Hilton Singapore. Try all four unique flavours with The Orchard Earth Box, a modular box made from recyclable materials, with lantern riddles built into the packaging.
Price: $88 (box of 4); $20 (Golden Reunion Red Date Cake)
Early bird: 25% off till 6 August; up to 25% off for Hilton Honors members
Hilton Singapore Orchard x Old Seng Choong
13. Thye Moh Chan
Thye Moh Chan is the only bakery on this list recognised by the National Heritage Board as a Steward of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
This year’s new Red Date & Longan pastry joins their highly-acclaimed Mao Shan Wang Durian and Yam with Salted Egg Yolk in a lineup that stays closer to Teochew pastry tradition than snowskin trends.
Every flavour is handcrafted the same way it has been for over 80 years.
Price: $46.8-58.8 depending on flavour
Early bird: 15% off with code EARLYBIRD, 13 August-14 September
14. Shangri-La Singapore
Red date, pumpkin seeds and bird’s nest, in one mooncake, from one of the city’s most established Chinese kitchens.
Shang Palace’s Red Date Pumpkin Seeds with Bird’s Nest Mooncake leans into ingredients associated with nourishment rather than novelty, a deliberate contrast to the flashier snowskin flavours dominating this list.
This is what you should get if you’re trying to impress your in-laws!
Early bird: Up to 30% off till 9 August
15. Swensen’s
Ice cream mooncakes with a mochi shell, and yes, one of them is a Dubai chocolate flavour.
Swensen’s mochi-snowskin range wraps a soft, chewy mochi skin around an ice cream core, with new Dubai Cookie and Strawberry flavours joining returning favourites Mao Shan Wang and Durian King D24. Swensen’s is actually making a pretty solid comeback this year.
Price: From $50 (box of 4); individual pieces $13.5-16
16. The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
One of its boxes is a bright red letterbox, a nod to the building’s past life as Singapore’s General Post Office.
The Fullerton has gone all-in on baked mooncakes this year, skipping snowskin entirely for flavours like Glutinous Pu’er with Melon Seed and Black Sesame with Chestnut and Walnut, alongside a Low Sugar White Lotus with Pumpkin Seed. The lineup spans a crimson drawer-style box, a metallic tingkat, and that cylindrical letterbox design.
Price: $68-$218 nett
Early bird: 20% off all mooncake selections from 24 August
17. PAUL
Its mooncakes aren’t mooncakes at all — the crust is PAUL’s own buttery, crisp tart shell.
The Moon Tart Collection swaps snowskin and baked crusts for French pastry, filled with four new flavours that weave familiar Asian ingredients into the tart format: Genmaicha Mochi, Yuzu Sesame, Maple Pecan and Double Chocolate. The box of eight comes housed in a batik-inspired keepsake tin, with a PAUL cooler bag thrown in.
Price: From $88 (box of 8, 2 of each flavour)
18. Starbucks
The only mooncake box on this list you can order through a coffee app.
Starbucks’ 8-piece assortment pairs two Lotus Paste with Egg Yolk against five newer flavours — Osmanthus Oolong, Oolong Yuzu, Pandan Osmanthus, Black Sesame Egg Yolk and a Caramel Coffee Macadamia that’s the most on-brand flavour on this entire list. Order through Mobile Order & Pay or Starbucks Delivers, and Rewards members earn bonus Stars on top.
Price: $69.9 (box of 8)
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