Lenôtre, Schuss Fraise

Monday, because of a cake-off win with a seasonal cake, I went to Lenôtre at Ginza Mitsukoshi for a new cake, which was also seasonal. My target was actually a different cake that I had only imagined, having not looked closely apparently (or just misremembered), but the real cake, Schuss Fraise, looked fine (there is a season glass dessert, but never my first choice). This is a "rare" (unbaked) cheese mousse cake. I'm usually more a baked cheesecake person, though the dual rare+baked one are often the best. Anyway, their usual is citrus, but this one uses strawberries on top and strawberries and raspberries (for some tang) for the sauce. Definitely excellent, though when I reviewed, the Schuss Citron was also definitely excellent, so I shouldn't have been surprised. It doesn't get them back into the quite exceptional category, but they aren't far off, so something will eventually slip low enough that they'll get another chance at a new cake.

The exercise was running there and fast walking back, followed by dancercise, though I skipped other indoor exercises.

Lenôtre, Schuss Citron

The third cake of last Satuday was from Lenôtre, which saw En Vedette's challenge fade. Also, Ginza Mitsukoshi being closed was not helping. There are three seasonal cakes for the summer, and I took my best shot at Schuss Citron, which is cheese mousse with lemon cream in a 6-layer cake. This was definitely excellent, and really better than I expected, frankly. Lemon as a flavoring to cheesecake is not so innovative, but it works and I liked the cheese mousse and somewhat mild flavor even though I would expect dense cheesecake to suit me best, or at least one that depended more on sugar. Very nice, but still overpriced, so be aware. I look forward to getting another cake from them, maybe next weekend.

(Paris) S'éveille: Everest and Fig Orange

No running again today (maybe I should have run Friday night, but there was no budget for cake and I ran Thursday night, so I just worked out inside), but I went today by bike and rode farther than I needed to. Still, I feel like I should workout some more inside again, although I did work on cleaning the balcony, a job I've been putting off for months, so that sort of counts as far as exertion.

Went to Paris S'éveille, since they seem to be most underrepresented (I still need to get back to Takagi and decide whether they really belong among the greats). The first cake was Everest, for 580 yen, which is a cheese mousse cake with raspberries. Or it might be called a Charlotte with cheese mousse filling. Either way, this is very good for the type (or otherwise), but a tough sell for appealing to my tastes and doesn't rise to great. It's not really what I should be getting when I visit this shop, since they have so many other delicious things.

The other cake was the Fig Orange, for 620 yen, which is as advertised, except, as is obvious from the picture, it is a chocolate cake with layers of ganache. This is really great cake. The fig excellently complements the dark chocolate and its texture complements that of the rich cake and ganache. Then, the accent given by the orange clearly raises the level. Be warned, though: this is really rich and heavy (which is a good thing), so I recommend splitting it with someone or having a book and/or beverage to stretch out the time and flavor. Not that I got tired of it, but it seemed like a lot of cake just eating it by itself outside where I did not want to linger.

I also verified the existence of Addict au Sucre as a patisserie one station north, although I don't have any information suggesting that I particularly need to go there. Just one for the list of not yet visited places added to the map.