Emperor Lava Pastry with Lotus Seed Paste

Mooncake is an Asian desert typically filled with salted egg york, lotus seed, or red bean paste. If you love moon cakes, then you must try Costco's lava pastry with lotus seed paste.

Last month, during Lunar New Year, my family and I were gifted the Costco Emperor lava pastry as a blessing for the new year. 

Emporer Lava Pastry Packaging

One box comes with eight individually well-packaged lava pastries and people with allergies should be aware that this product contains the following wheat, milk, peanut oil, soy oil, eggs, and sesame seeds. 

Looking at the packaging, the box feels very premium and reinforces its brand image by creating a regal appearance to it through the use of the color red and elegant fonts. When I opened the red box, we can see the eight individually packaged pastries wrapped around with plastic — it is hard to open the packaging, you will need to open it with the use of scissors. 

Taking a bite of the pastry, the pastry consists of a generous fill of lotus paste as well as the salted egg yolk. The outer layer of the pastry was thin and flaky and the inner layer contained a well-balanced mix of the salted egg yolk and the lotus paste. All in all, the pastry was sweet due to the lotus paste and I liked the hint of the added black sesame nutty taste. Because the outer layer of the pastry is quite thin and buttery, the pastry falls apart quite easily and is oily as well.

Lava pastry with lotus filling

Overall, if you love mooncakes, then you will definitely enjoy this pastry because after eating this it felt like I ate a small mooncake. However, for the price, I would recommend waiting for it to be on sale since it can be pricey — it is around $22 Canadian dollars, which is expensive for only eight in a box.