The Mid-Autumn Festival is fast approaching, which means that it’s time to indulge in some seriously delicious mooncake. For the uninitiated, Mid-Autumn Festival, or Mooncake Festival, is the second largest celebration in China and several Asian countries after Lunar New Year. This festival celebrates the harvest when the moon is at its fullest. While it is autumn in China, hence the name, the festival takes place during Melbourne’s spring. Mooncakes are shared and eaten during this time. This year, Mid-Autumn Festival will be on Tuesday September 17. You should be able to find mooncake in any Asian grocery, but if you need some pointers on where to go, we’re here to help. In this list, you’ll find some awesome bakeries around Melbourne that will satisfy your mooncake cravings.
1. Amour Desserts
The mooncakes at Amour Desserts are so popular, that they sell out fast! Pre-orders for these signature handmade mooncakes are available now, for either Melbourne delivery or pick up. Try traditional flavours like lotus paste or red bean, opt for a pop of colour with their snow skin mooncakes, or taste something different like their exotic Nyonya sambal mooncake. See all the different flavours at Amour Desserts here.
2. Raya Melbourne
This bakery in Melbourne CBD has plenty of mooncakes for you to try. Opt for a traditional flavour, like white lotus or osmanthus lotus pine nuts, or go for their Teochew spiral pastry mooncakes. These spiral pastries come in flavours like pandan coconut or red bean lychee. Find them in store at Raya Melbourne or pre-order them for pick-up. See more here.
3. The Langham
Treat your family and friends to an utterly luxurious mooncake experience from The Langham Melbourne. Presented in an elegant jewellery box, you’ll enjoy either white lotus seed paste mooncakes with double egg yolks, or mini custard with egg yolk mooncakes. The lotus option comes with four mooncakes, while the custard option comes with six. Find more info here.
4. Joy Jaune
This small artisan patisserie in Preston serves handmade, freshly baked mooncakes. This year, there’s two different sets to choose from. Grab a pack of four or eight with classic custard mooncakes inside. Or, go for the assorted set for fun flavours. Inside, you’ll find classic custard, uji matcha custard, uji hojicha custard and miso black sesame custard. Mooncakes from Joy Jaune are available for pick-up or delivery on select days. For more information, click here.
5. Le Yeahllow
Le Yeahllow has created a stunning Jade Ring Mooncake to celebrate the festival. Inspired by the glow of the moon, this treat features Genmaicha Bavarian cream, coconut dacquoise, salted egg yolk crèmeux and chocolate feuilletine. This mooncake serves five to eight people. More info here.
6. Breadtop
Who doesn’t love Breadtop? This reliable bakery has stores all over Melbourne, so you won’t have to travel far for mooncake. There’s traditional flavours and gift sets, as well as snow mochi mooncake. This year, there’s also four new flavours of mooncake to try. Will you go for brown sugar boba Thai milk tea, matcha red bean, taro lava custard or Hokkaido milk cheese? Find out more.
7. Fellow Mart
At this online dessert store in Melbourne, you can order homemade snow skin mooncake. They do pre-orders for pick up and delivery in select suburbs on certain dates. Send Fellow Mart a DM via Instagram to place your order, and keep an eye on their socials for the pick up and delivery schedule. Find them on Instagram here.
8. Soon Guan Delicacies
Indulge in handmade mooncakes from Soon Guan Delicacies. There’s quite a few sets for you to choose from, with flavours like taro, durian and black sesame. Mooncakes are available for pick up on select days, or for delivery. Check out her Instagram account for more details.
9. Godiva
Treat yourself to delicious chocolate mooncakes at Godiva. Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with artisan flavours, like black sesame & pineapple or raspberry with rose. There’s a few different gift boxes to choose from. See the collection here.
10. Koko Black
Koko Black has some tasty chocolate mooncakes for you to try. Indulge in Mango Five Spice, Cherry Pistachio, Crispy Almond Caramel and Matcha Red Bean. Try them individually or in a gift box. See more here.