Marina Bay Sands and its tenants are marking this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival with some unique executions of the traditional Chinese Mooncake.
Taking centre stage this year is SweetSpot’s Chewy Coconut and Cherry snow skin mooncake by Marina Bay Sands’ executive chef Christopher Christie. Inspired by his childhood favourite Bounty bar candy with chocolate and coconut, Christie’s snow skin mooncake features a white chocolate ganache centre with Malibu rum, macerated maraschino cherry and filled with candied coconut flakes, white lotus seed paste and butter cake crumbs for contrast in textures and flavours.
SweetSpot’s Salted Caramel Almond Crunch makes a return with its velvety blend of salted caramel, chocolate and crunchy almonds encased in soft snow skin. Another SweetSpot snow skin classic mooncake for chocolate lovers is the Dark Chocolate Orange Grand Marnier with dark chocolate ganache and hints of bitter orange from the liqueur.
Traditional mooncake fans will delight in the silky smooth and luxurious White Lotus Seed Paste with double egg yolks baked in a golden-hued crust.
Available from now until September 27, the mooncakes are presented in an elegant box designed to resemble a Chinese lantern that blends elements of art and tradition. They are priced from S$62 for a box of eight snow skin mooncakes to S$68 for a box of four traditional mooncakes.
Retail restaurants at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands
Restaurants at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands will also present an exquisite selection of traditional and snow skin mooncakes made from the finest ingredients.
From August 20 to September 27, Jin Shan2 will be offering its signature handcrafted traditional-baked mooncakes. Guests will be spoiled for choice with the array of fillings, from lotus paste with mui choy or longan and ginger tea, to white lotus paste with double yolk and five kernel nuts. A box of four traditional mooncakes starts from S$60.
Yú Cuisine3 will also be launching a variety of mooncakes, from low sugar white lotus mooncakes with no yolk, single yolk or double yolk fillings, to assorted nuts and seeds and assorted seeds and premium ham mooncakes.
The selection of mooncakes starts from S$12 for a piece of low-sugar white lotus mooncake.
