Arcachon: Puuruka

Keeping close to home and avoiding straining my knee (which I'll keep doing for another week and a half), I got a third cake from Arcachon. This one didn't work out so well. I wrote down "Puuruka", which was 480 yen. I let the nuts on top convince me. It's also got white, milk, and dark chocolate mousses, strawberry gelatin, and probably pistachio base. Even getting it home fairly quickly with 2 cold packs in the box, which I kept a while in the refrigerator, the base was still not firm enough to support it. It was not really well constructed and the flavors don't really add up to anything, so I'm going to have to say that it was just okay.

In fairness, I put carob powder in my cheesecake filling, which worked okay, which is to say, never do this, or at least not if you don't know what you're doing.