Cakes of the moon

The mid-autumn festival (in American English "mid-fall festival", but doesn't sound like something one would really want to celebrate...) is upon us, and so are mooncakes, the traditional and ubiquitous Chinese snacks. These days there are many newfangled types - even Starbucks and Haagen Dazs have got in on the act - but the more typical ones look a bit like a good old pork pie, complete with an egg-yolk or two inside (to represent the full-moon), but with lotus seed or sweet bean paste filling in place of meat. Anyway, Wikipedia can tell you more that I ever could, but suffice it to say that they are usually very very rich and heavy. This one was enough for the two of us.