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Morinaga Moonlight Japanese Egg Cookies 14 Pieces
$6.59 AUD
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Morinaga Moonlight Japanese Egg Cookies 14 Pieces
A small domed egg cookie that is crisp when you bite it and then crumbles in the mouth, with a gentle taste of egg and sugar.
Regular price $6.59AUD
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Why we say this
Morinaga has sold Moonlight since 1960, and this box has 20,004 ratings on monolog, a Japanese review site (October 2026).
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Product information
About
A small domed egg cookie that is crisp when you bite it and then crumbles in the mouth, with a gentle taste of egg and sugar. Picture a plain sweet biscuit from the tin, made with egg and egg yolk, that breaks into layered crumbs. Buy it if you want a light cookie for a cup of tea or coffee; if you want a rich butter shortbread, this is the wrong box.
On the pack: ムーンライト (moon-light).
What you're getting
- Fourteen cookies in seven sealed bags of two, so you open only what you eat.
- Each cookie is small, about 8 g, and one bag of two is a light snack with a drink.
- It tastes mostly of egg and sugar, a little like tamago boro, the small melt-away egg drops sold in Japan.
- There is no butter in it. The buttery note comes from butter oil, a milk fat, with margarine and shortening.
- It is a dry cookie, so pour a drink first.
- Allergens: egg, milk, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: the shortening and margarine may be made with animal fat.
The Japanese box calls it a cookie, but it is the crisp, plain kind, not a soft or chewy one. It is made by Morinaga, not Bourbon, another Japanese biscuit maker. Some boxes come in a limited character print; the cookies inside are the same.
Ingredients
Wheat flour (made in Japan), sugar, shortening, egg, butter oil, vegetable oil, margarine, egg yolk, salt
emulsifier (from soy), flavouring, raising agent, carotene colour.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Allergens
- Contains
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- Egg
- Milk
- Wheat
- Soy
- Dietary notes
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The shortening and margarine may be made with animal fat; the ingredient list does not say which fats they are.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Details
- Maker
- Morinaga · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One box: 14 cookies, in seven bags of two
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- Dip it in milky coffee or warm milk and straight out again; left to soak, it loses its crunch and breaks up.
- If you sandwich cream or ice cream between two cookies, eat them the same day: in the fridge they turn soft and cake-like within about six hours.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
Really crisp, but as you chew it turns moist; you could believe it came from a specialist bakery.
すごいサクサクだけど噛んでるとしっとり感も感じて専門店デ売っててもさすが美味しいなと思ってしまいそう。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
I was speechless at how small the cookies are.
クッキー本体の小ささに絶句。
from monolog
- What they like
The taste reminds me a bit of tamago boro, Japanese egg drops.
味は卵ボーロにも似ているような気がする。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I loved it, but it's smaller and the flavour seems to have dropped.
大好きだったけど、小さいし風味が落ちた気がします
from monolog
- What they like
A gentle egg taste, nostalgic, and I never tire of it.
卵のやさしい味で懐かしくて食べ飽きないおいしさです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It used to hit you with a buttery taste; now it's become an oddly light cookie.
昔は食べた瞬間にバターっぽさが出てきて好きだったのに、変に軽いクッキーに成り下がった。
from monolog
- What they like
It crumbles apart in layers, which is oddly pleasant.
サクホロホロッと割れくずれて層をかんじる食感がなんだか心地いい( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ )♪
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they grumble about
Dry; it left my mouth and throat parched.
パサパサして口の中が喉乾いた。
from monolog
- What they like
I love dunking it in milky coffee.
ミルク入りのコーヒーに浸してつまんじゃうのが好き。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
A sweet that's just sweet.
甘いだけのお菓子
from monolog
- What they like
Crisp and easy to eat, but dense, so one bag of two is enough for me.
サクサクしていて食べやすいけど密度が濃いというか１枚の満足感があるので２枚入１袋を食べるともう満足です。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The pity is it seems to have got a lot smaller.
残念なのは、大きさが随分と小さくなって来ている気がします。
from mognavi
- What they like
When I'm not hungry in the morning, this and a café au lait is sometimes breakfast.
朝あまり食欲がないとき、これとカフェオレで済ますことがあります。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Eaten now, the buttery taste is weak and the texture grainy. Hmm.
今食べるとバターも弱く食感も粒子が荒い感じでうーん。
from mognavi
- What they like
My kids love it too; when they spot it at the supermarket they say "that's the yummy cookie!"
こどもたちも大好きで、スーパーで見つけると『これ、美味しいクッキーだ！』と言っています。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It tastes more of sugar than it used to.
以前よりも砂糖味になりました。
from mognavi
- What they like
Dipped in milk it softens a little and crumbles away in the mouth.
牛乳に付けて食べると、食感が少し柔らかくなり、口の中でほろほろっと砕けていくような感じです。
from mognavi
- What they like
Break it into plain yoghurt, freeze it for a bit, and it's a proper dessert.
適当に割って無糖ヨーグルトに入れてちょっと凍らせると立派なデザートになります。
from monolog
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The maker
Where it comes from
- Morinaga
- Tokyo
- Founded 1899
Morinaga launched Moonlight in 1960, and the company still calls it one of its flagship products. Morinaga itself began in 1899, when its founder came home from America and opened a small workshop making Western sweets.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: morinaga.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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