Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Plecia Great Mont Blanc


All things mont blanc draw me to them. The Pied Piper would have nothing to offer me, but the Hamlin baker could lead me to my doom with a lovely mont blanc. Something which resembles a small mont blanc pizza with only 318 calories, scarcely more than a real pizza of the same size (14 cm. in diameter). Of course, I'm not sure if this is a "proper" mont blanc, because it doesn't have mountains of piped chestnut paste lying on top of it. However, according to Wikipedia, it just means that there is pureed sweetened chestnuts and whipped cream, so even this flat version should qualify.

I found this for 275 yen at Inageya supermarket while my husband was inspecting the beer options. There's a section next to the butter which offers "fresh" (as in not designed to have a long shelf life) sweets which often lures me to it with its wiles but rarely pries my hard-earned yen out of my wallet. The problem is partially the cost, but also the calories. Most of the treats are fatty delights, filled with rich pudding, whipped cream, and small amounts of cake. Also, frankly, there are a lot of cake shops around Tokyo which offer fresher, prettier options with less environmentally wasteful packaging.


This is a simple thin layer of yellow cake smoothly covered with a whipped cream base and with some ribbons of chestnut cream on them. I didn't expect too much, really, but I was incredibly impressed in the end. It's not too sweet, has a much better chestnut flavor than I expected based on the chestnut to cream ratio, and had a serviceable sponge cake at the bottom. I found it incredibly delicious, and ate the whole thing at once when I'd originally planned to just eat half of it.

This is my second product from Plecia, which specializes in these types of refrigerated cakes and sweets. They draw me because they have tasty lower calorie treats with a lot of whipped cream, and that is something I find hard to resist.


4 comments:

Paul said...

Your husband drinks beer? Somehow I just assumed you had a dry household since you didn't drink.

It's just a personal decision then?

Dani said...

YUM!!! I would have eaten the whole thing in one sitting as well...who were you kidding?? LOL!!!

Orchid64 said...

Paul: My husband does indeed drink beer (and rum). We are not a dry household. It's merely that I don't care for the smell of alcohol and grew up around a lot of alcoholism and therefore choose to abstain.

Dani: Well, I bought another and ate it in three servings... so, I wasn't fooling anyone... at least not after the first time. ;-)

Thanks to both of you for your comments!

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