チェスナッツ カプチーノ（コーヒーアイスクリーム、栗、チョコファッジ、ホイップクリーム）
Chestnut Cappuccino: coffee ice-cream chestnut, chocolate fudge and whipped cream. “Love it” size(i.e. medium) plus waffle cup, 630yen.
The first branch of this American ice-cream shop in Japan is at Roppongi Hills. I have tried going for a couple of times but it ALWAYS has a long queue, even during odd hours like weekdays afternoon, or in winter(the waiting and eating space is outside). So I was very happy to find out that the second branch(in central Tokyo) is inside a mall at Ikebukuro. Happier still that there was no one waiting when I went during weekday lunchtime! The ice-cream is chopped and mixed with the ingredients on a cold marble stone. The much-hyped ice-cream didn’t disappoint, very smooth and rich, a bit sweet in Japanese standard, but okay for me.
Cold Stone Creamery Japan
Category Archives: 05:Cakes and Sweets
PÂTISSIER INAMURA SHOZO (パティシェ イナムラ ショウゾウ)
羽衣モンブラン。
“Hagoromo mont blanc” is limited seasonal item. Apparently 10 Japanese marrons are used to make one of these, and there is definitely no cheating because I have never eaten a mont blanc that has such a thick layer of marron paste and tastes so rich! Inside is fresh cream and one whole chestnut cooked in syrup, bottom is chocolate macarons. It is amazing, and surprisingly not too sweet!
キンモクセイ月光。
Sweet Osmanthus mousse with fresh cream and sponge cake at the bottom. So creamy and very nice fruity flower fragrance. Also first time I see a doorman for a cake shop! ^^;;;
上野の山のモンブラン。ポムカネル。
Mont blanc. Layered from top to bottom with marron paste, fresh cream, sponge, custard cream, and sponge again. Also some marron bits here and there. This regular Mont blanc can’t quite beat the more luxurious “Hagoromo mont blanc” above in terms of the (marron/other stuff) ratio, and the richness of the marron itself, but it is quite nice nonetheless, and a bit cheaper. Think of it as a marron sponge cake rather than a Mont Blanc. Another seasonal item – green apple mousse, cinnamon apple, caramel mousse, and chocolate sponge as the base. Nice combination of sweet and sour. Got the Lemon pound cake to take away too – everyone in the line in front of me got the lemon cake so I just followed. ^^;; Lovely lemony flavour and moist texture. Can keep it for 4 days but I ate it in 2 by myself easily.
INAMURA SHOZO
Waffle Cafe ORANG (ワッフルカフェ・オランジ＠下北沢)
モンブランワッフル、９４５円。マロンクリームにホワイトチョコとクランベリー、手作りココアクッキー、アーモンドクランチをのせて、カシスソースで仕上げた。チャイ、６８２円。
Mont Blanc Waffle: marron cream, white chocolate and cranberries, cocoa cookies, almond crunch, and Cassis sauce. Looks a bit of a mess(^^;;) but it is quite nice actually. All those crunchies and cream and sauce made the otherwise ordinary-tasting waffle very luxurious. Surpisingly it is not too sweet too. The chai is good. The one-e-missing name of the shop always puzzles me though.
Waffle Cafe ORANG
Wanofu
petit d’or (プティドール)
モンブラン。タルト・フリュイ。タルト・ポワール。ガレットと抹茶クッキー。
Mont Blanc, Tarte aux Fruits, Tarte Poire, galette and matcha cookie. The Mont Blanc is the best! Multi-layers from top to bottom: marron cream, whipped cream, marron paste, sponge cake strong with alcohol, and chocolate coated sucré. It is very small but so rich with marron flavour – I love it! The fruit tart and the pear tart are not bad too, though the tart is the soft type, not the crispy type I like. The pear one is very sweet. The cookies however are no good, mainly because they are not properly sealed and are not crispy, even though I think they are probably not that old.
petit d’or
Pâtisserie Atelier de Rêve Boutique Mont-Blanc (ブティックモンブラン)
New open cake shop in Ikebukuro yeah! Marron mont blanc, 450yen. With coffee, +230yen. It is marron cream, on top of fresh cream, on top of marron, on top of a tart with pastry crumbs around. Not a big fan of meringue so glad that there isn’t any. The taste of the marron doesn’t stand out but overall quite good. The tart is slightly sticky, I like!
More photos: 1, 2.
丹波栗のモンブラン、６５０円。
“Tanba” chestnut mont blanc. I can’t resist anything labelled “limited sale”…^^;; The chestnut is much richer than the Marron mont blanc I had last time. Though instead of a very nice tart, the bottom part of this one is a slightly soggy biscuit.
紫芋のモンブラン。フランボワーズのモンブラン。
Taro Mont Blanc. Framboise Mont Blanc.
The taro cream is good, with cream and chocolate sponge cake underneath. The framboise one is a bit sweet, with sponge cake, cream and raspberry mousse underneath.
Pâtisserie Atelier de Rêve Boutique Mont-Blanc
Patisserie Mariage (パティスリー マリアージュ)
Mont Blanc. Marron crepe.
Chocolate mousse cake. Camenbert cheese cake.
I liked the cheese cake, which was soft souffle with melted cheese in the middle. The rest were pretty normal though. I had problem finishing the chocolate mousse one cos it was too sweet and not chocolatey enough. The cake shop is located on a beautiful tree-lined avenue, and when I went on another sunny day on the weekends, the ceiling-to-floor windows were all opened up and people were sitting outside. I loved the interior and couldn’t help snapping lots of pictures but I was told off by the staff….later I realised that no-photo signs were all over the shop…^^;;;; So the second time I bought take-away instead, but they didn’t pack the cakes properly and they ended up a bit of a mess(the photos show the unsquashed sides). There was a sign next to the cashier telling customers not to carry cakes with bicycles….err….
キャラメル オレンジ。蜂蜜とイチジク。オレンジピールのパンケーキ。
Caramel and orange: Orange and caramel chiboust. There are caramel sauce and almonds in the middle layer. Tastes okay. I have tried a couple of cakes from this place but none of them is really impressive. However, they do have a large collection of cookies and baked finger cakes so I tried a couple of those. Honey and semi-dried fig Madeleine. Pound cake with orange peels.
フィナンシェ。マロンとカシス。ガレット。
Financier in Teddy bear shape. Madeleine with marron and cassis. Galette. All of them are actually quite good, a bit on the light-tasting side. Particularly like the pound cake which is the only one rich with butter, and the sour-sweet madeleine with marron and cassis.
Patisserie Mariage