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The many delights of 7-Eleven have been known to surprise the taste buds of visitors from overseas, sometimes captivating foreign media. While many may focus on the convenience store's wide array of delicious sandwiches and even high quality curry, 7-Eleven offers quite the deep selection of delectable sweets.
In particular, their pudding aisle is a known oasis for sweets lovers. Hearing that their latest sweets release was in collaboration with world renown pâtissier, Pierre Herme (winner of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by the World's 50 Best Restaurants), we had to give the dessert a taste test.
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The Pierre Hermé Signature Cupcake Chocolate Vanilla is called a cupcake, but lacks a chiffon cake portion and instead consists of four layers of cupcake toppings: chocolate sauce, chocolate pudding, vanilla brûlée, and chocolate cake.
Right off the bat, the chocolate sauce topping on the surface is crispy and had a very pleasant texture.
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There are two layers from the top, chocolate pudding and vanilla brûlée, with a brownie-like chocolate cake hidden inside the vanilla brûlée. What stood out the most to us on the first bite was the importance of scooping all four layers into one bite. Doing so mixed the thick and melty pudding and brûlée with the moist cake and crispy chocolate near the bottom.
For those who can't choose between the seemingly endless cakes and pudding selection at 7-Eleven in Japan, we recommend this four-layered cupcake pudding hybrid that has an elegant but heavily stacked serving of sweetness.
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