No running, Matériel

I made a futile trip to Tokyu Hands, but they were having some sort of special bulk sale, so no baking supplies. I've got a recipe book and needed a pan. The recipe makes 27 cakes, so actually I wouldn't mind a smaller version of the pan so that I can re-scale. Plus, I'm not really equipped to whip up 600 grams of egg whites into a meringue (which I've never done successfully, and really, it's still too humid). Here, I was worried about using the few eggs worth I have frozen now. Actually, the recipe doesn't make 27 pieces of cake, it makes 27 rectangles for making the cake and each piece uses 4 (which is not good planning, but it's a standard size pan, 40 cm by 30 cm), so it's not completely crazy. Still, half would be plenty.

Matériel (or Ma teriel) was at Isetan, so I got Franboise-something (it's not on their site, so I'll have to visit again to find out what it was). It was good, but not great. I know it has raspberries and almond from the card. Difficult to taste beyond the raspberries, although the balance was better than the m.koide cake that I was complaining about the other day. I'll add it to the list of places to visit on the weekend. It's actually in Tokyo, so I could combine it with something else. The next three shops, though, are all 25+ km just due to their distance and then I have some closer ones from Isetan and even the Joshi+ blog has visited an actual patisserie again, besides one's I've already been to, so I should try it out.