Frédéric Cassel, Tarte Myrtille

Back on September 4, I visited Frédéric Cassel for a new cake. Two weeks the previous month they had special domestic blueberry cakes. Next, they had blueberries as the month's theme. This cake goes by simply Tarte Myrtille, and was excellent, as usual, and suitably different from the recent maybe more traditional limited domestic blueberry version. This is almond cream in the bottom and blueberry cream on tip, with crepe added for texture, I'll say.

Jean-Paul Hévin, Longchamp Praliné

Thursday was running revised neighborhood routes. I did three other loops, but the important part was I finished the Minami-Motomachi--Wakaba--Yotsuya--Sugachou--Shinanomachi Loop and Minami-Motomachi--Moto-Akasaka loop. Friday, I did the basic part of my indoor workout, before going for a shorter run that did one way of one loop and finished the revised Minami-Aoyama east loop. Before the run, I got cake from Jean-Paul Hévin, the Longchamp Praliné, which at first I didn't recognize as new, since it combines elements of a couple past great cakes that there are multiple variations of, the Feuilletine Praliné and all the Longchamp (except, surprisingly, the Feuilleté), so it was a good bet this one would be great, and it seemed to be. It's supposed to be around until mid-January, so hopefully I'll be able to get it in all 4 cake-off rounds by then. I'll try to get started next week, against a new Mont-Blanc.