Cake-off: Classic Chocolat over Rhône-Alpes

Yesterday, I tried to catch Plaisir at home, which is apparently impossible. Since I was so close, I tried La Base Secrète du GAMIN and found out that Wednesday was its closed day, which is good to know and information that was not available from my other sources. I chose to swing back through Hikarie at Shibuya Station for research purposes rather than go somewhere new for cake, such as Lui's cafe. About 16 km at 10 km/h. So that left me down one cake, meaning today I could do cake-off.

I thought I was going to get cake at Jean-Paul Hévin, but apparently White Day rules still apply and there was a huge line at Isetan. Since I already reserved a Classic Chocolate from Atelier Kohta and needed to get it by 8 pm, I didn't stick around. Instead, I went to Amitié, which is within 400 m of Atelier Kohta, and got the Rhône-Alpes and took both home before going out again for some non-cake errands (well, mainly I needed a new fastener for my running backpack, which is related to cake). Another 10 km at almost exactly 10 km/h average, despite the kills and cake-running.

These were both cakes from small shops that I've not visited so much but made a strong impression at the time. I've had a lot of chocolate cakes since then, though, so maybe I wouldn't rate either as great now, but they are still definitely excellent. The Classic Chocolate has layers of chocolate whipped cream, as well as the whipped cream on top between chocolate biscuit, whereas the Rhône-Alpes has meringue tubes on top which, I still think are nice, and ganache, maybe, between thicker biscuit layers, . But I have to give this match to the Classic Chocolate: I'm warming to whipped cream over time. Actually, I've only had one other cake from Atelier Kohta, so a third cake would level it up with it's neighbor Amitié, which I'm not quite ready to drop from the excellent list, although it probably will end up sliding down to a quite good list eventually, when I get around to needing that. All depends on several newer shops, of course.