Dolce Tacubo's Bakes!

J said that Dolce Tacubo's financiers and cream puffs are actually good. I didn't have to make a reservation just to buy (they seem to still do that for the main Ebisu store) at this Toranomon Hills space within T-Market. So that made it super convenient to simply buy loose pieces of confectionery when we pass by.

We taste-tested the financiers, cream puffs and canelé. They are seriously tasty. I like financiers, but it's very difficult to find good ones without too much sweet. The man isn't bothered with canelé. He doesn't mind the financiers. I like the brand's financiers and canelé. I shall take some home.

The one thing that's his Achilles heel — the cream puff. He couldn't resist eating a cream puff every other day. LOLOL. Between this and a dorayaki daily, he’s hitting all his sugar quota for the year. The man ate so many dorayaki from Ogino Wakan / おぎ乃 和甘. He said, 'NO REGRETS'.

We decided that these financiers and savory sablés (think chocolate and cardamon, dukkah, rosemary and sea salt) would make decent gifts. I wasn't going to be in any snack stores and I most certainly do not like shopping at the airport and carrying giant bags of crushable snacks or perishable mochi or whatever up the plane. Mochi and dorayaki have a three-day limit to eat them; they need to be kept cool too. That's too much work. I'd see one person upon landing, and that would be the only one I'd buy the mochi for. I need to check on Choya first before I'm in the right frame of mind to deliver gifts to the friends. These little pastries from Dolce Tacubo could keep for a bit and would do nicely.