Cake-off: Frédéric Cassel's Breteuil versus L'Abricotier's Sicilien Figue

Did a run out to L'Abricotier to get a Sicilien Figue to do a cake-off against Frédéric Cassel's Breteuil, a greate cake that finally became available again that was bottom of my list (for some reason, by list is from most recent cake to most in the past) for a cake-off. The run was short of 10 km, due to walking from Isetan to the northwest edge of the main Shinjuku underground tunnel system, despite running down from L'Abricotier to the Marunouchi Line, which is about another 1.5 km. I justified my laziness by the fact that I had ran the night before, I was going to busy this weekend and still had things to do in preparation the required physical energy, so I didn't want to exhaust myself running Friday (it's Culture Day, so three-day weekend), and running carrying cake does not seem good for tendinitis in the arms, which I still have concerns about. I took the train all the way to Ginza (on the same train, which is why I didn't use the nearest line from L'Abricotier) to get the second cake and then took the train home (because, by that point, the first cake was loosing it's ice and if running carrying cake is bad, then running carrying two cakes is twice as bad).

Suspecting a problem, I started with a bite of Sicilien Figue. It had a distinctive fig and pistachio taste that had caught my attention previously to make me designate it as great. Then I started on the Breteuil, which is a super-rich pistachio dome cake; I should dislike it for being a gelatinous (though not sticky) dome cake, it is is so rich, that gelatinousness was not an issue. As a result, the Breteuil easily won the cake-off and I have to give the Sicilient Figue the benefit of the doubt that it really was great, because it's hard to evaluate anything remotely subtle between bites of Breteuil. If you like pistachio, you should definitely get over to Ginza Mitsukoshi and try this.