Frédéric Cassel, Tarte Calamansi

Continuing from Ryoura, I put on my mask and used the train to go to Ginza Mitsukoshi and get the new cake of the month from Frédéric Cassel: Tarte Calamansi. The tart is just what the name says, though I've never heard of this fruit before. It's a coconut tart base, obviously, and the top is mixed calamansi and vanilla cream, with lime peal sprinkled in. It's very tropical, which is a hard sell for me, but ultimately it won and I can it was excellent, though I'm not sure that I need more calamansi cakes, particularly.

The afternoon run was all local loops, all successfully completed (about 2.5 hours of running): the Minami-Motomachi--Samon-chou--Suga-chou--Shinanomachi--Wakaba--Yotsuya loop, which is up to 8.44 km and hits all the main Soka Gakkai buildings now, the Daikyou-chou--Shinanomachi loop, which is up to 2.32 km and now includes the folk music museum, since Soka Gakkai claims it on the map of the complex (they also claim their main newspaper buildings, but I'm drawing the line there, as well as buildings that are dormitories or guest houses or shuttered, which might not be fair, but it's hard enough working everything in), the Samon-chou--Yotsuya loop, which is up to 1.1 km (though the link to the previous loop is now much shorter) and now includes the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Headquarters and whatever the above shop is, the Sendagaya central loop, which is up to 1.90 km and now needs to be part of the cluster as the loop leading to it, as does the final loop, the Sendagaya 3 loop which is up to 404 m and has an OK, which is a grocery store, well named since the Two-Layer Creamcheese Tart I got there was only ok.

Cacahouète: Tarte Cacahouète and Baba au Rhum

Friday, by request, I went down to P. Cacahouète Paris. Someone wanted choux cubes, and I did not object. Actually, no pictures of those, which we ate in (it's a pretty cramped space and they had to move pastries to allow two people to sit, though there is also outside seating, which we were not interested in during February weather). Specifically we had the Chou Cube Vanille and Chou Cube Pistache, both of which was definitely good, if more like pudding than cake, but I liked the pistachio one more.

For cake, which we took home, we got the Tarte Cacahouète, which is a caramel cream (sorry, I've already forgotten what other flavor might have been in there, peanuts, I guess, but I'm wondering whether I'm forgetting a touch of fruit) which I liked most and was excellent, and a Baba au Rhum, which is not really my thing, but this was seemed excellent, so my impression is reinforced that this is a quite good patisserie.