Mooncakes are a delicacy many of us look forward to enjoying once a year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sep 29, 2023. Whether you enjoy the traditional baked version or the ingenuity of flavours that accompany the softer snowskin type, mooncakes are undeniably a dessert we find hard to resist. Yet, mooncakes aren’t that great health-wise. Each of them is calorie-laden with sugar and oils and doesn’t provide much in terms of nutrients. So if you want to celebrate the festivities without guilt, here are 10 healthier, low-sugar mooncakes to get this Mid-Autumn Festival 2023. We’ve included keto options too.
10 Places For Low-sugar Mooncakes
An oldie but a goodie, Hong Kong Meixin presents a box of six Low Sugar Mooncakes with Egg Yolk for $70.15. If you’re still racking your brains over what to get for your parents and in-laws, this mooncake is it.
Visit Hong Kong Meixin’s website to order or for more information.
Whether you love snowskin or baked mooncakes, Kekito Bakery has you covered with its keto creations. The snowskin mooncakes are sold in a box of four — two Original Snowskin made with regular lotus paste, a Black Sesame Peanut and a Pandan Melon Seeds. For the baked versions, pick from Original with Yolk, Shanghai Yolk with Walnuts, Premium Mixed Nuts and Original (No Yolk), each sold in a box of four.
They are all sold at $48.80 per set. There is also a Keto Baked Mooncake Giftset containing two each of Original with Yolk, Premium Mixed Nuts and Shanghai Yolk with Walnuts priced at $72.80.
Visit Kekito Bakery’s website for more information.
Keto bakery Ange Bakes has found a way to make traditional mooncakes diabetic-friendly by swapping lotus paste with almond nut butter paste and replacing sugar with allulose and erythritol. They have three baked mooncake flavours to pick from — Mixed Berries with Yolk, Raspberry Macadamia, and Black Sesame.
Each of them comes in a box of six minis at the price of $74. There is also a 20 percent early bird discount from now till Aug 31 by using the code MOONCAKE20OFF.
Visit Ange Bakes’ website to order or for more information.
Delcie’s promises that its low-sugar mooncakes contain no more than 24g of sugar per 100g as they replaced cane sugar with organic agave and sugar substitutes. For snowskin, there is the Mao Shan Wang Durian Snowskin ($118 for four) while baked varieties include Pandan Lotus with Salted Mung Bean ($108 for four), White Lotus with Black Sesame Yolk ($108 for four), Premium Mixed Nuts ($108 for four) and Red Bean Paste ($108 for four). There is also a flaky mooncake variant in the form of Spiral Teochew Pandan Lotus with Peach Gum Snow Fungus ($89 for four).
From now till Aug 31, there is a 15 percent early bird discount.
Visit Delcie’s Desserts & Cakes’ website to order or for more information.
The Feng Shui Inn at Resorts World Sentosa has four low-sugar options each with different filling combinations. They are namely the Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk, and Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Traditional Mixed Nuts.
A box of four baked mooncakes is available from $85. There are early bird prices from now till Aug 31 too.
Visit Resorts World Sentosa’s website to order or for more information.
The baked mooncakes from Wok°15 Kitchen in One°15 Marina Sentosa Cove are made in a halal- and BRC-certified (a food safety standard) facility. Each of them is filled with white lotus paste and comes with either single or double yolk.
The Classic Baked Mooncakes set is sold at $69 and comes with two double yolk and two single yolk mooncakes.
Visit One°15 Marina’s website to order or for more information.
Fans of pandan’s unique grassy, vanilla aroma would love the Low Sugar Pandan Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk Baked Mooncakes from The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which celebrates the popular local flavour. For traditional folks, the Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk Baked Mooncake is an option too.
Both these mooncakes are part of the Jade Signatures Mooncake Collection, which has a 25 percent early bird special from now till Aug 23. Otherwise, they are priced regularly at $68 and $90 for a box of four respectively.
Visit The Fullerton Hotel Singapore’s website to order or for more information.
The mooncakes from Shang Palace in Shangri-La Singapore are a delight for some to look forward to each year. This year, there are four low-sugar options: Reduced Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Four Yolks ($123 for four), Reduced Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk ($92 for four), Reduced Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk ($89 for four) and Reduced Sugar Plain White Lotus Seed Paste ($79 for four).
From now till Aug 31, there will be an early bird discount of 25 percent on these classic baked mooncakes.
Visit Shangri-La Singapore’s website to order or for more information.
Xin Cuisine in Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium has released its bestselling Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk Baked Mooncake ($86 for four) again this year. But for those who aren’t such big fans of salted egg yolks, opt for the Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk Baked Mooncake ($78 for four) or Low Sugar White Lotus Seed Paste Baked Mooncake ($75 for four) instead.
There is an early bird offer of up to 35 percent discount from now till Aug 27.
Visit Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium’s website to order or for more information.
Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro is joining the mid-autumn festival fray with two low-sugar options — a snowskin and a baked mooncake. The former is the Lychee Martini Chocolate with White Lotus Paste in Low Sugar in Snowskin ($76 for eight minis) that has a chocolate centre celebrating the fruity cocktail. The baked version is the Macadamia Nuts and White Lotus Paste in Low Sugar mooncake ($79 for four).
From now till Sep 3, there is an early bird promotion of 30 percent off for DBS/POSB, UOB, Citibank and American Express cardholders.
Visit Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro’s website to order or for more information.
As part of its Assorted Baked Collection, Crowne Plaza Changi Airport has a single low-sugar flavour option. That is the Low Sugar White Lotus Paste with Macadamia Nuts. The mooncakes are housed in a limited edition vibrant orange trinket gift box that can be upcycled to hold jewellery and accessories.
A box of four is priced at $80. There is also a promotion running now (for a limited time only) with the code MOON35, which gets you 35 percent plus 5 percent off.
Visit Crowne Plaza Changi Airport’s order page to order or for more information.
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