Hands up if you look forward to mooncakes boxes or the packaging as much as the delicacies within them! If you’ve ever retained your mooncake boxes from previous years, then you’d know the effort some brands put into pushing out beautiful and unique designs each year. From Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel to The Fullerton Hotel, we’ve shortlisted the best mooncake box designs 2024 that can be turned into jewellery boxes!
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Overview of the best mooncake boxes in Singapore (2024)
| Type | Brand | Mooncake capacity | Price |
| Branded | Shangri-La x Bynd Artisan | 4 | $156.00 |
| Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel | 4 | $92.00 | |
| The Fullerton Hotel | 15 (1 large, 14 small) | $218.00 | |
| Mdm Ling Bakery | 4 | $80.00 | |
| Janice Wong | 8 | $95.00 | |
| Conrad Singapore Orchard | 8 | $95.00 | |
| Fairmont Singapore | 4 | $94.00 | |
| Mandarin Oriental | 4 | $92.00 | |
| Conrad Centennial | 4 | From $92.00 | |
| The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore | 8 (small) | From $95.00 | |
| InterContinental Singapore | 4 | From $96.00 | |
| PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay | 4 | $98.00 | |
| Hock Wong Singapore 福王 | 4 | $88.00 | |
| Non-branded | Kraft Cavity Mooncake Box | Maximum 9 | $0.90 – $1.80 |
| Mid Autumn Festival Box | 4 | $3.82 | |
| European-style Handheld Box | Maximum 6 | $4.17 – $8.70 | |
| Scarlett.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncake Gift Bag | Maximum 4 | $3.39 – $4.02 | |
| Scarlett.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box With Transparent Window | Maximum 6 | $21.46 – $27.22 | |
| Chinese Mooncake Gift Box | 8 | $43.40 – $80.69 | |
| Romanticism.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box | 8 | $113.75 | |
| Jy Bakery Ingredients 4 cavity Mooncake box | 4 | $4.35 |
Best branded mooncake boxes in Singapore (2024)
1. Shangri-La Hotel Singapore
It’s hard not to be won over by Shangri-La’s mooncake box designs. In collaboration with Bynd Artisan, the hotel brings you the best mooncake box in Singapore perfect with an ooze of elegance. Firstly, the Shang Palace Red Date Pumpkin Seed with Bird’s Nest Mooncake (available on Shangri-La Hotel Singapore) comes in a nostalgic red box with golden full blooms to represent a bountiful harvest season. It also feels luxe because of its velvety feel! We especially love the functional ring inserts at its side that will no doubt house your fine jewellery pieces for the year to come. Lastly, it also comes with a pure leather piece that can be reworked into a pouch or keyholder. Simply visit Bynd Artisan to learn how!
2. Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel
Resplendent red is the name of the game over at Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel. The mooncake box designs are coloured with an auspicious deep red. Unlock the gold clasp of the Assorted mooncake box (available on Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel) to reveal the upper drawer decorated with shiny gold and red floral motifs which symbolise love, joy and prosperity. This chest can easily be repurposed as a mooncake jewellery box or displayed as a decorative item in your home.
The handcrafted mooncakes in this chest are made by chefs at Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant. They are loaded with premium ingredients without any added preservatives or artificial flavouring. If you’re looking to give a box to business associates or even in-laws, then you won’t go wrong with the Assorted Baked Mooncake box that features the new Imperial “Long Jing” Tea with Pecan Nuts flavour.
3. The Fullerton Hotel
This year’s list of best mooncake boxes in Singapore won’t be complete without The Fullerton Hotel’s simple yet elegant round mooncake box design. This stunning turquoise JADE 15 Treasures Premium Gift Set (available on The Fullerton Hotel Singapore) houses 15 mooncakes – one giant 8-yolk mooncake plus 14 mini ones surrounding it. To explain, the giant mooncake in the middle symbolises the full moon on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. All in all, this mooncake box design screams sophistication with its gold accents of flowers and an intricate outline of the hotel. After the festivities end, simply clean out the box and fill them with your favourite trinkets or makeup pieces – eyeshadow pots and cheek blushes perhaps?
4. Mdm Ling Bakery
Mdm Ling Bakery’s enchanting midnight blue mooncake box design strikes the perfect balance between tradition and modernity. The golden flowers on the Moonlit Serenity Mooncake Tin (available on Mdm Ling Bakery Official Store) paint your imagination to a midnight garden design that will remind you of patterns from the past – like those from your grandmother’s clothes. This best mooncake box in Singapore is also perfect for those of you who keep every letter your friends, family or lover has ever written for you! You can even use it as a jewellery holder or even a hair accessory organiser. You won’t have any excuse to not organise the vanity table after owning this box.
5. Janice Wong
Mooncake jewellery boxes don’t have to always come with allocated slots for your jewellery. If you fancy the box, you can include small jewellery trays too. Yes, we could go the extra mile for Janice Wong’s 2024 mooncake box design. Stylish, bold and luxurious, this mooncake box design comes in a beautiful limited edition handbag that elevates your outfit effortlessly! The mooncakes come in a red box that can house random knick-knacks to your favoured jewellery pieces long after the festivities end.
6. Conrad Singapore Orchard
This next mooncake box in Singapore is the best if you are gifting it to ladies of any age. Timeless and elegant are probably the best words to describe the Summer Palace Snowskin Collection Mooncake Box (available on Conrad Singapore Orchard). Instead of opting for the classic red and gold, this mooncake box design comes in a royal blue and beige box with colourful flowers on its “doors”. This can easily be transformed into a jewellery holder – just imagine opening the mini doors everytime you take your hoops!
7. Fairmont Singapore
How gorgeous is this mooncake box design? Fairmont Singapore has outshined competition with its Low Sugar White Lotus Paste Baked Mooncake (available on Fairmont Singapore) that features a dark wood coloured tin which comes with a wooden outer casing. Every vanity table needs one of these! It’ll sit pretty in the corner of your dresser table from where you can reach for your favourite jewellery and accessories.
8. Mandarin Oriental
Is your favourite colour green? If you didn’t already know, it symbolises wealth, health and harmony! This year, Mandarin Oriental infuses a hue of green in their mooncake box design along with watercolour flowers. This is one of Singapore’s best mooncake boxes because of its functionality. It comes with a handle for easy movement and two drawers with ample space for all your blings!
9. Conrad Centennial
Conrad Centennial’s mooncake box is a dream come true for those who prefer a softer palette. This cream coloured leather box, adorned with delicate pink peonies, shows you the best of both elegance and simplicity. In addition, its golden clasp adds a touch of luxury, while the convenient handle makes it easy to carry. Adding this to your vanity isn’t just about storage anymore, it’s all about style!
10. The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore
As much as we hate picking favourites, we just can’t help it with The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore’s mooncake box design this year! Decorated with vibrant flowers and cute bunnies jumping around, what else are you looking for? This Tiffany blue box also boasts three tiers, showcasing four mooncakes, four tins of Mist Valley tea, and a bottle of champagne – yes, you heard us right. They have classic flavours like the White Lotus Paste with Egg Yolk and an alcoholic flavour like the Mocha Baileys Snowskin (both available on The Capitol Kempinski Hotel). But that’s not all, two of the tiers even have ring holders, fit for storing your jewellery, from earrings to rings. All in all, the box’s design is a tasteful blend of modern and traditional, capturing the essence of Singapore.
11. InterContinental Singapore
Tired of mooncake boxes that scream ‘Mid-Autumn Festival’? InterContinental Singapore offers a premium option with a leatherette box that looks like it belongs to a Vogue magazine. Choose from blush pink with a soft grey interior or a classic ivory with a contrasting red – both exude pure class. The magnetic clasp on this mooncake box design is a dream for jewellery lovers, and with two inner layers designed for trinkets, this box is equally practical and pretty!
12. PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay
One glance at their Charcoal Peach Long Jing with Okinawa Brown Sugar Mochi (available on PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay) mooncake box and you already know that this hotel stands out from the rest! This year they place their mooncakes in the Blossoms Pavilion Box, a semicircular two-tiered box. This light brown box comes with a beautifully drawn floral pattern that exudes grace and is also not too girly nor too plain! To highlight, the box comes with two drawers accompanied by gold hardware – it’s like they designed this knowing you’ll keep jewellery inside. Design, material and looks-wise, we think this is one of the best mooncake box designs in Singapore this 2024!
13. Hock Wong Singapore 福王
You might have come across this brand’s bak kwa before. Hock Wong Singapore’s Wan Jia Mooncake Gift Box (available on Hock Wong Singapore 福王) is one of the few mooncake box designs that is a tingkat! It has colourful intricate patterns that instantly gives off retro vibes – almost nostalgic as you look at it. Tingkats have always been used as lunch boxes and we love using them to store food for picnics – this is why it’s the best mooncake box in Singapore!
Best non-branded mooncake boxes in Singapore (2024)
14. Kraft Cavity Mooncake Box
Nothing beats a good batch of homemade mooncakes! Perfect as a gift, making them look presentable is part of the process too. Use these Kraft Cavity Mooncake Boxes (available on CAARTN) to pack all your mooncakes! This is a simple mooncake box design and probably the best one in Singapore if you’re lazy or want something simple. It’s easy to elevate this, simply use ribbons or even mid-autumn themed stickers and voila!
15. Mid Autumn Festival Box
Have parents who favour traditional designs? This Mid Autumn Festival Box (available on easypackingzb.sg) showcases traditional elements especially with its typography and colour combinations without looking tacky! Most importantly, we added this to our list of best mooncake boxes in Singapore as it has two handles at the top for easy carrying – super convenient when you’re delivering or giving it away.
16. European-style Handheld Box
Need more pizzazz for those mooncakes you just made? Use this European-style handheld box (available on Love Homelife Shop) for that extra oomph. It looks cute on the table but it looks better as you hold its leather handles! This best mooncake box in Singapore is simple yet luxurious with its mooncake box design that consists of golden hardware. Plus, whoever receives this mooncake box can definitely reuse it for their own bakes too.
17. Scarlett.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncake Gift Bag
Opt for something less typical like a gift bag to make your mooncakes more memorable! This 2024 CNY Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncake Gift Bag (available on Scarlett.sg) has a unique trapezium shape that is made with a sturdy material. Regardless of the mooncake box design you have, this gift bag can fit it all! The cherry on top is definitely the folding gold ribbon which adds a touch of elegance to the box.
18. Scarlett.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box With Transparent Window
We’re sure you’ve put in a lot of effort into making those mooncakes look pretty, why hide them? This best mooncake box in Singapore has a small window for your mooncakes to peek through. The 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box With Transparent Window (available on Scarlett.sg) comes with a cute design that features rabbits – the companions of the moon goddess, Chang’e! It also comes in two colours: orange and white, both with a gold ribbon handle. Your snowskin mooncakes will make this mooncake box even cuter!
19. Chinese Mooncake Gift Box
This mooncake gift box design encompasses the mid-autumn season in a new level. The Chinese Mooncake Gift Box (available on 💖美物家居馆) is made of bamboo wood – how cool is that compared to the typical leather boxes you always see? What’s more, it is a round wooden basket with a very traditional design – it surely adds to your outfit too! Your recipient can also reuse this as a snack or fruit basket after the season is over.
20. Romanticism.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box
It’s hard to find a DIY two-tiered mooncake box. That’s why we scoured the internet to find the best DIY tiered mooncake box in Singapore for you! The Romanticism.sg Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Box (available on Romanticism.sg) has two tiers where you can place up to four mooncakes each. You can put each mooncake in a Plastic Tray Casing (available on like Harbour Life official Store) before placing them in the box. This mooncake box design can be repurposed for Chinese New Year so remind them to keep it!
21. Jy Bakery Ingredients 4 cavity Mooncake box
Simple and functional, the 4 cavity Mooncake box (available on Jy Bakery Ingredients) is the best mooncake box in Singapore for gifting. You can place up to four mooncakes in this box and still have space in your bag for other Mid Autumn snacks! What stood out to us was the cut out on this vertical box that allows a peek of your mooncakes. It is also super easy to assemble!
What can I do with old mooncake boxes?
Similar to what we mentioned in this article, you can repurpose old mooncake boxes into jewellery holders to place on your vanity or if it’s a tingkat, you can use those as lunch boxes. You can also use them as a snack or fruit basket! Or if you’re a hoarder of many things, feel free to use them to hold all your trinkets and letters.
Pick your favourite mooncake box design!
Have these 2024 mooncake box designs left you impressed? Be sure to look out for Shopee’s Mid-Autumn Fair and enjoy great prices on your favourite box designs! Not too particular about the packaging? Then check out the best durian snowskin mooncakes or the best traditional mooncakes and get dibs on the best tasting delicacies this Mid-Autumn festival!
This article was updated on 2 August 2024. Additional research done by Chari Deguzman.
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