Mooncakes by Jewels Artisan Chocolate

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

Our doorbell sounded and there's a guy outside with a nice little paper bag delivering a box of mooncakes to us! It's delivery from one of our top 5 places for macarons in Singapore.



A surprise from Jewels Artisan Chocolate.
It's not macarons this time, but Snow-Skin mooncakes!

A semi 3D style light green box was inside the package and in it there's 3 icy jewels!




The kind folks from Jewels Artisan Chocolate and Siriusart sent me 3 types of mooncakes to sample.



Hand made by the artisans from Jewels, these cold delights comes in limited quantity.

These mini snow skin mooncakes comes in boxes of 8 mooncakes, and prices are between $52.80 to $56.80. They have the traditional baked ones as well.


Now for the taste test:



Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Salted Caramel Truffle - $52.80 for a box of 8.

A ball of chocolate crust with salted caramel truffle inside, tasting slightly salty and sweet at the same time. The filling is smooth and velvety on the tongue.




Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Champagne Ganache Truffle - $53.80 for a box of 8.

A white chocolate ball with champagne ganache inside. It's a low sugar recipe, so it does not taste so sweet. When you open the package, a nice fragrance banana and champagne smell tempts you to want to pop it in your mouth!




Mini Snow-Skin Mooncake with Korean Black Garlic - $56.80 for a box of 8.

This sure is unique! Jewels have been making korean black garlic macarons, and now they have added it into their mooncakes as well. Black garlic has 10 times more anti-oxidants than normal garlic.

Garlic lovers and garlic PRE-lovers might want to taste it. It smells of garlic, but not a whiff of the pungent smell like fresh garlic. In fact, you don't really smell it from your nose, you can taste it on your tongue when you pop the mooncakes in. The black garlic has a sweetish and yet a slight vinegarish taste, a bit like pickled radish in korean banchans.




You can get these delicacies from now till 11 September 2011.
You can email them at sales@jewels.com.sg or call them at +65 6509 8998

If you want to grab it right now, make your way to:

Jewels artisan chocolate
Orchard Central
181 Orchard Road, #02-31/32.

Takashimaya Square
Basement 2 Ngee Ann City
391 Orchard Road.

Entertainment Centre Atrium (In front of Carrefour)
Suntec City Mall,
3 Temasek Boulevard.

If you want to view promotions of some offers, go to
http://www.facebook.com/Jewels.artisan.chocolate

Jewels Artisan Chocolate @ Orchard Central

Last Saturday evening, Momo and I were glued to the TV watching "Raising the Bar: Willie's Chocolate Revolution". By the end of the show, we were so hungry and craving for chocolate! (It was 8 pm!)

We needed to satisfy the craving and there were no new chocolates in my little 'choc fridge' to try out. We thought of Jewels, the chocolate place that many people have blogged about. I remembered Nic mentioned to me the other day: "you got to try the 'kiam nerng' (salted eggs) macarons!".

We quickly got on the PIE and reached Orchard Central in 15 mins. Oh yes, if you do not know, Orchard Central has 'free' valet parking. We left the car with the valet and rushed to grab dinner.

After dinner, we were ready for chocolates. We sat down and was promptly attended to. We left it to the service staff to recommend their specialties.

We had their very popular macarons. The 3 flavours we had were: ($2 per piece)
Green Tea (green tea & dark chocolate crunchy pear)
Black Palm Island Salt (salted egg & almond cream topped with black palm island salt) and
Passion Fruit (passion fruit conserve & almond cream).





This is the "kiam nerng"- Black Palm Island Salt macarons.
Macarons are not meant to be eaten, it's meant to be admired and savoured slowly. How do you savour it? Take a small bite and let the 'papillae' on your tongue get to work.

Don't they just look so "pretti-licious"?




Another reminder... Savour it, not eat it! (note there's a difference!)

This is how the Black Palm Island Salt looks when it is cut.
I shall not describe the taste, you might want to taste it yourself ;-)




The other recommendation was the Dark Chocolate Lava Cake with Ice Cream. ($10.80)
We were told it would take 15 mins to prepare.

For the ice cream we could choose any flavour we wanted, and we chose the "66% Alpaco Dark Chocolate Ice Cream with Crunchy Pearl". It was so good!

(we were still thinking of Willie's 100% chocolate in the show earlier! I want to get them from Selfridges like in the show!)



Ah... the warm chocolate lava cake. The cake is partially cut so the chocolate will not flow out.
It comes with 1 spoon of vanilla cream and another spoon of raspberry compote.  




We were pleasantly surprised when Then Chui Foong, the chocolatier came out to ask how we found the food. We told her it was excellent.

We asked her how the lava cake was meant to be enjoyed. She said it's up to the person eating. The person eating is the 'artist'.  The vanilla and raspberry was served to allow the artist to mix the flavours. A person who likes it sweet can 'paint' vanilla cream on the cake and ice cream. If they like it a little sour, 'paint' it with the raspberry compote.


181 Orchard Road
Orchard Central
#02-31/32
Singapore 238896

Tel: +65 6509 8998
Hours: 11am to 11pm daily