Pierre Gagnaire, La Fraise

Get up early due to not getting back to sleep and wet off to do the National Art Center clump of my neighborhood running course, which stretches from Aoyama 1 Stn. to the east and west most exits of Roppongi Stn. From the last, I made a side trip to Pierre Gagnaire, so it was a gentler trip home, which I reached a little before 09:00. I was success at the clump, which is 5.452 km by itself. I still have to do the farthest (but smallest) loops clockwise again.

After a carrot (as something to hold down a spike in blood sugar), I had La Fraise, which is a shape cake. This is obviously a solid shell. Inside is mostly very light strawberry mousse, with a little bit of custard and strawberry (I'm not sure whether the custard is needed to project the mousse from the strawberry). The "leaf" is pretty gummy, so probably best to eat it separately, unless you like that kind of thing. It was very nice, if light and a little hard to each, since the shell breaks apart (I assume it's white chocolate based). Still, a definitely good cake. 

Dalloyau: La Fraise

Back to Dalloyau, Ginza, by the long way through Meiji Jingu Gaien, which is a little short of 7 km, at 11 km/m. There was some sprinting in the middle there to make two lights in a row that I know require high speed to make both, so maybe that's one reason why I was tired coming back, when my speed dropped down to 9 km/m (and it's uphill and I carried cake, but mostly I was tired). After getting my cake, I stopped by Frédéric Cassel and verified they had a cake I might need for my next cake-off as a backup as second cake if I get my first choice of first cake.

The cake from Dalloyau was La Fraise, which seems so basic, that I wasn't really believing I had never had it before, but it wasn't on my list. Maybe I had it before starting to blog. Anyway, it's strawberry mousse, I assume, since it was certainly mousse but it's so light, that it's hard to say. It was still good and, one nice thing I can say for it, it's really a fresh taste, so no aftertaste problems. However, obviously no exciting and not so much my thing, so I'll just label it (definitely) good and add it to the list of Dalloyau cakes I've tried.