Échiré Maison du Beurre: Misérable

Went to Marunouchi for a third time trying to see the same new shops, and actually found Échiré Maison du Beurre without a line, though of course mostly sold out late on a Friday. The cake they had was Misérable (which seems like a bizarre name for a cake, but it's apparently a standard French cake), for 756 yen, since no mille-feuille, what was recommended. I didn't really mind.

It was definitely good, being (vanilla?) buttercream between pretty standard almond biscuit, though pretty sweet. Very buttery, so I'm not sure that there actually is vanilla, since the point is to show off the butter, that being their specialty, and it did that.

Felt pretty good about finally getting something new worth having from a new shop on my list/map, but I was too fast going them and am now 1% over budget, having run about 4 km at 8 km/h, faster than I intended, with 6 km of walking. Because I ran a lot during the week and not much last weekend, I've got nothing left for tomorrow, so I'll just have to stay in and work on the next cake, as well as brownies, macarons, and canele (for surplus egg yokes, or I can try making brownies without egg whites). Sunday I may also skip running, since I still won't be able to get far, and instead cycle to Jiyugaoka.

32 km to Jun Ujita: Gateau morjolaine, Orange caramel, Chocolat pistache

Today was a 32 km run along this course (I've imported things from the current Weekday map), which hits Jun Ujita at about the one-third point and returns there for the end. At the first visit (actually I've gotten simple chocolate cake there some time just to confirm that I hadn't been ignoring them for a good reason), I got a Gateaux majolaine for 450. As you see, with a hazelnut meringue crust (definitely could tell the nuttiness), there is a cream and butter layer and a cream and praline layer in the form a ganache sandwich. It was very good, but not so special. Maybe I would have wanted it to be a little "heavier", but then it would be a different cake.

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