Mooncake Frenzy

Went into mooncake overdrive this week.. Practically had mooncake for every day of the week...

Raffles Hotel Mini Snow-Skin Mooncakes with Champagne Truffle & Ganache ($45 for box of 8) and Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Raffles Cognac Truffle ($43).

Champagne - Too annoyingly sweet. No alcohol taste. :(
Cognac - Also sweet but slightly stronger alcohol flavour than the Champagne.
Both snow-skin are too thick and sweet. It has an overpowering essence scent that mask the taste of the filling. Though soft, the skin is too sticky that got stuck on the knife so the shape of the mooncake becomes deformed. Grossly overated!

Also tried out Marriott Hotel Mini Snow-skin Wild Strawberry Yogurt Mooncake and "Ebony & Ivory" Whisky Chocolate Praline (both $42.80 for 8 pieces).

Wild strawberry - Average. Just yogurt in mooncake.
"Ebony & Ivory" - Oohh!! I love this. Nice alcohol and chocolate combination. The snowskin is just nice. Not too sweet and don't try to overcome the main dish that is the Praline, unlike the Raffles Hotel's.

Also bought Eater Palace Classic Teochew Yam Paste with Pumpkin Mooncake ($8 for 1 piece). Very nice when warm. Smooth yam paste. Almost like eating Yam paste dessert.

Still have Four Seasons D24 Durian Snowskin Mooncake ($8.40 for 1 piece) in my freezer.

Shared the Marriot and Raffles mooncakes with a colleague as we wanted to try out the flavours but didn't want to get the whole box. Luckily the others could be bought singly. Thank goodness, Mid Autumn Festival only comes once a year. I cannot afford to put on any more weight le! (>_<)