Éclat des Jours, Palet de Chocolat Spicy

Took a half-day off and ran to Éclat des Jours. Fortunately, the rain came earlier than predicted today, so it was just wet by the time I was running. Today, this time imperial movements closed off sidewalks north from Hibiya Park, but I could go straight there, so no problem, though I would have turned if I could have, just because the light was red going straight. I stopped on the way at Toshi Yoroizuka and verified that they still have Cassis, which I'd like to get this weekend. At Éclat des Jours, I decided to go with the new thing, Palet de Chocolat Spicy (I think they wrote "Palait", so this is my spelling, which matches the official Japanese-spelled pronunciation). This is a simple chocolate mousse cake made up of a flour-less chocolate biscuit, chocolate mousse, and apricot coulis (thick sauce) to show off The Cacao Professionals Spicy Fruit (Meiji The Cacao), which, as the name implies, they don't sell to just ordinary folks, apparently. Anyway, it was excellent.

Ginza jog to Frédéric Cassel at Mitsukoshi: Passion (updated)

Still feeling a little off, although the rainy weather might be related. Was able to jog to Ginza and back, though. It's probably not the first time I've bought from Frédéric Cassel, since I've been at Ginza Mitsukoshi and wanted cake in the past and there aren't so many option (but they do have a Jean-Paul Hévin, so no problem always going there). It's been years, though. Their visit to Shinjuku Isetan drew my attention, so I'm finally getting around to visiting them.

I got the Passion, which is passion fruit baked cheese cake layer, and a rare cheese cake layer, and a little raspberry coulis in between. The weirdest part about it is that there are two crusts at the bottom. The top one seems to be a passion fruit flavored biscuit. It was 756 yen, which is steep, but great, and no geese died to make it, as far as I know, so good job Fred. I'll need to get back there, although the only thing else that they had near closing time was the lemon tart, which would be okay, but not usually my first choice.