The most unconventional mooncakes to try in Singapore this Mid-Autumn Festival 2026

Lotus paste and salted egg yolks will always have their place at the Mid-Autumn table, but not every mooncake needs to play by the rules.

This year, brands are pushing the seasonal treat into decidedly less traditional territory. Think mooncakes made with ice cream, buttery tart shells, hand-painted chocolate and flavours that sound more at home in a pâtisserie.

If you’ve already had your fill of the classics, here are the unconventional mooncakes in Singapore worth trying for Mid-Autumn Festival 2026.

Ralph’s Coffee

Ralph’s Coffee puts its own spin on the Mid-Autumn staple with six mini mooncakes in two flavours: Salted Butter Scotch Brownie and Coffee Custard Yolk in Chocolate Skin.

Arguably just as fun is the packaging. The mooncakes come in an illuminated vintage-inspired camper van in Ralph’s Coffee’s signature green and white, complete with a Polo Bear-rista figurine.

Price: $128 per box
Available: Regular sales from 25 August to 25 September 2026
Where to buy: Ralph’s Coffee at Marina Bay Sands and Shaw Centre, as well as online

Cédric Grolet Singapore

Leave it to Cédric Grolet Singapore to give the mooncake a French pâtisserie makeover. Its baked creations combine Chinese lotus paste with French pâte de fruit in four fruit-forward flavours: Raspberry Lime, Passion Fruit Coconut, Lemon Vanilla and Cherry Matcha.

Even further removed from the classic are its chocolate-shell Signature Mooncakes. The new Hazelnut layers hazelnut, caramel and almond through praline, sponge, gel and crisp, while returning Raspberry pairs tangy raspberry with vanilla.

Price: $108 for four baked mooncakes; $52 for two Signature Mooncakes
Available: Collection from 26 August to 25 September 2026
Where to buy: Cédric Grolet Singapore and online

PAUL

Are they mooncakes or tarts? PAUL lands somewhere in between with its A Moonlit Affair collection, which swaps the usual mooncake pastry for the French bakery’s crisp, buttery tart shells.

The four flavours are Genmaicha Mochi with matcha ganache, Yuzu Sesame, Maple Pecan and Double Chocolate, the last of which layers dark chocolate ganache over a fudgy brownie base inside a chocolate shell with caramel pearls.

Price: $88 nett for eight pieces
Available: From 1 September 2026
Where to buy: All PAUL boutiques in Singapore and via online delivery

Swensen’s

Swensen’s has taken two desserts and mashed them together with its mochi-snowskin ice cream mooncakes. New this year is the Dubai Cookie Ice Cream Mooncake, which wraps pistachio ice cream and kataifi in a cocoa-dusted snowskin exterior.

Other new flavours include Oriental Beauty Oolong, Sticky Chewy Chocolate Zero with 40 per cent fewer calories, and Strawberry Mochi, made with real strawberry bits and chewy mochi pieces.

Price: From $13.50 each; Dubai Cookie at $16
Available: 10 August to 25 September 2026
Where to buy: All Swensen’s outlets, its e-store, GrabFood and foodpanda

Janice Wong

Chef-artist Janice Wong takes the edible-art route with her Chocolate Mooncakes, which are moulded into intricate floral chocolate shells and individually hand-painted.

The flavours are equally elaborate: Yuan Yang Brown Rice Tea Hazelnut, Aged Pu’er Mandarin Lotus Seed Praline Sea Salt, Malted Chocolate Bergamot Earl Grey, and Pistachio Yuzu Salted Caramel. For those who still want something baked, her Signature collection gets experimental too, with combinations such as Chocolate Sea Salt Black Truffle and Pistachio Longan Red Date.

Price: $49 for four Chocolate Mooncakes; $70 for eight
Available: Available now
Where to buy: Janice Wong’s online store

There’ll always be a place for lotus paste and salted egg yolks, but half the fun of Mid-Autumn these days is seeing just how far brands can stretch the definition of a mooncake.

Whether that means filling one with ice cream, encasing it in chocolate or turning it into a French tart, these creations might raise a few eyebrows among traditionalists. But if you’re bored of bringing the same box to every gathering, that’s also exactly the point.