If you're still planning on making your Christmas cake reservations, here are the cake selections from famous patisseries and specialty shops for 2024. Famous patisseries and specialty shops such as Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse, Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris, Jean-Paul Hevin, and Wako Annex Cake & Chocolate Shop have worked together to create Christmas cakes that are not only beautiful in design, but also delicious. Premium Japan has selected eight of these cakes.
*Please note that all cakes must be picked up at the store.
A hexagonal chocolate gateau with a strong cacao flavor
1. Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse
"Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse" is a chocolate specialty store from Paris, France, run by French chef Alain Ducasse. They carefully select cacao beans from all over the world and make their chocolates using traditional methods, from roasting the beans to making the chocolate, resulting in the finest chocolate.
Gateau de Noel Chocolat Noisette (limited quantity)
The theme of this year's Christmas collection is "Nutcracker Doll."
The brand's signature hexagonal cake is layered with crunchy hazelnut and chocolate sable, 75% Madagascar chocolate cream, and chocolate sponge.
This is a beautiful cake with chocolate and mousse shaped like a fir tree, and decorated on top with chocolate depicting the Nutcracker.
For 6 people ￥11,880
◆Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse
[Delivery period] Monday, December 2024rd and Tuesday, December 12th, 23
[Reservations accepted] Ends when limited number is reached
[Pick-up location] Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse Tokyo Workshop, Roppongi
[How to reserve] In-store or online boutique
An elegant taste created using carefully selected ingredients and careful handcrafting
2. Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris
Sadaharu Aoki is one of the most popular pastry chefs in the world, based in Paris, and has a brilliant career, having been selected as the best pastry chef in France, and winning the top prize for the fifth consecutive year and the eighth consecutive year at the 2018 "CCC" chocolate competition. The sweets he creates have captivated the people of Paris as well as Japan.
Noel Miroir Saya
It is a fragrant dome-shaped cake made with layers of strawberry cream made with chocolat blanc (white chocolate) and fragrant pistachio cream. The sweet and sour taste of strawberries and the mellow taste of pistachios, along with the fragrant aroma of hazelnut sable, spread in your mouth. The cake is topped with macarons, which are the signature of Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris, making you feel like you've gotten a little something extra.
Diameter 14cm 6,048 yen (tax included)
Noel Gateau Phrase
It may look like an ordinary shortcake, but the shortcakes that Aoki makes are a little different.
This is a smooth-tasting gateau fraise that makes the most of the dough, the basis of French pastries.
The softly baked biscuit soufflé is paired with a tangy and fragrant strawberry jelly and milky crème chantilly (made by whipping fresh cream with sugar). Both are gentle and flavorful. A little lime is added to the strawberry jelly, further enhancing the tartness and aroma of the strawberries. This is a gateau fraise that adults can enjoy as well.
Approx. 17 x 6 cm 5,886 yen
◆ Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris
[Delivery period] December 2024th (Friday) to 12th (Wednesday), 20
[Reservations accepted] Until Monday, December 12th
*If you make a reservation at the online boutique, the deadline is 15:12 noon on the XNUMXth (Sun).
[Pick-up locations] For in-store reservations, pick-up is available at eight domestic directly managed Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris stores (Marunouchi store, Tokyo Midtown store, Shinjuku Isetan store, Shibuya Hikarie ShinQs Toyoko Norengai store, Yokohama Takashimaya store, JR Nagoya Takashimaya store, Karasuma Oike store, and Atelier Karuizawa store).
*Online boutique reservations are only available at the Marunouchi store, Tokyo Midtown store, and Atelier Karuizawa store.
[How to make a reservation] In-store, by phone, or at the online boutique
The ultimate taste of chocolate born from the pursuit of cacao
3. Jean-Paul Hevin
Jean-Paul Hevin is a world-class chocolatier who has received numerous honors, including winning international competitions, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF), and the World's Best Pastry Chef and Chocolatier award from World Pastry Stars.
Every year, he personally visits cocoa-producing areas to not only select the cocoa that will be used to make his chocolate, but also pays attention to the working conditions and hygiene of the cocoa crop, creating beautiful and delicate chocolates.
Around 2 kilograms of chocolate are made every day at two laboratories in France, some of which is air-shipped to Japan.
Bush Cameroon
Based on the new collection theme "LES NOUVEAUX MONDES (New Worlds)", this Buche de Noel invites you into a "new world".
It combines Cameroonian cacao mousse with creme brulee, chocolate biscuit, and hazelnut-flavored chocolate. Underneath is a crustyan with an almond texture.
6.5×16.5cm 8,100 yen
Busch Corail
It expresses an unexpected "new world," as if the world of the sea had met the world of chocolate.
A combination of Peruvian cacao mousse, praline cream, chocolate biscuit, and crunchy hazelnut-flavored chocolate, served on a crustyan with an almond texture.
6.5cm×16.5cm 8,100 yen
◆Jean-Paul Hevin
*Reservation methods and delivery periods vary by boutique, so please contact each boutique for details.
*JR Kyoto Isetan and the online boutique only carry "Buche Sagittarius."
An unwavering flavor handed down through a long history and tradition
4. Wako Annex Cake & Chocolate Shop
The annex, located next to Wako Main Store, a Ginza landmark, is a space from the basement to the second floor where you can enjoy Wako's unique high-quality food.
Wako Annex Cake & Chocolate Shop on the first floor is a cake and chocolate shop that sells fresh cakes made in the Ginza 4-chome atelier and has around 30 types of chocolate on display at all times. The flavors, created through careful handwork using high-quality ingredients, have long been a hit with many fans.
Premier Chantilly Fraise (limited quantity)
This luxuriously tasting shortcake is made with a dough made from wheat flour produced in Hokkaido, finished with a moist finish using wasanbon sugar, and sandwiched between two types of homemade blended fresh cream and Amaou strawberries.
The bottom layer is made of custard cream, creating a perfect harmony of sweetness and sourness. The cake is topped with plenty of Amaou strawberries, and the white chocolate decoration, which represents a snowy landscape, is beautiful and impressive.
◎Materials may change due to weather or other reasons.
Size 6 ¥21,600
Rouge (limited quantity)
This Christmas cake, with its striking bright red leaf shape and white snowflakes, is based on the poinsettia, a symbol of Christmas.
The richness of the chocolate is combined with the tartness of blackberries and the aroma of Earl Grey, creating an elegant taste that adults will love.
The cake is garnished with overlapping raspberry chocolate leaves (bracts), and while it is rich, it has a good balance of sweetness and acidity, and its gentle flavor is soothing to the soul.
17×8cm ￥7,884
◆Wako Annex Cake & Chocolate Shop
[Delivery period] Friday, December 2024, 12 to Wednesday, December 20, 12
[Reservations accepted] Until Monday, December 12th
*Reservations at the online boutique will be accepted until 16:17 p.m. on Monday the XNUMXth
[Pick-up location] Wako Annex Cake & Chocolate Shop
[How to make a reservation] In-store, by phone, or at the online boutique
