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Lady M Confections

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By AMANDA HESSER

Since it’s impossible and foolish to claim that something is the best of anything in New York, I’ll hedge my bets and say that the Mille Crêpes at Lady M Cake Boutique, just off Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, is at least the second-best cake in the city. It succeeds so splendidly not just because it’s wildly delicious but also because it’s a clever design. Any number of decent pastry chefs could have come up with it. But they didn’t. (Or at least they didn’t look it up in some old cookbooks, but more on that later.) A team of mysterious investors at Lady M did, and they have filed to trademark the name Mille Crêpes.

Here’s what it is: 20 (as opposed to 1,000) lacy crepes layered with clouds of whipped-cream-lightened pastry cream. The top crepe is spread with sugar and caramelized like creme brulee. A fork plunged into a slice slides like a shovel through fresh snow. You get a whiff of smoky sugar, then layer after silky-sweet layer.

The components of the Mille Crêpes — the crepes, the pastry cream, the whipped cream — are plain as can be. It’s the way they are constructed, with every proportion considered and refined, that makes you think differently about cake. ”The recipe has to be perfect,” said Hideyuki Niwa, who bears the title C.E.O. of this single-location bakery. ”The cream itself has to be firm enough so the cake doesn’t collapse. The crepes have to be baked thin enough so that when you cut through with a fork, it can’t be an impediment. We’ve had many failures.”

Most bakeries are born out of love and butter and modest ambition, but not Lady M. The shop on East 78th Street is a clean, bright box done completely in white, with a sleek glass pastry case jutting through the room. In the back are a handful of tables; not even a cash register is visible. What little color there is in the room comes from the cakes and pastries themselves — eclairs, a paper-thin apple galette and fruit tarts, none of which compare in style to the Mille Crêpes.

Niwa, who was previously an investment banker, prefers to talk about sugary, comforting confections in terms of branding, strategy and intellectual property. He would not say how many investors were involved in Lady M or even where they were from. ”We wanted to be the Maison du Chocolat of the cake industry,” he said by way of explanation. The company began in earnest in 2002, selling cakes to restaurants, which it still does. Its green-tea Mille Crêpes, for instance, is served at Megu.

When I asked if I could speak to a pastry chef about how the Mille Crêpes is made, Niwa said that company policy didn’t permit its pastry chefs to speak to the media. ”We’re not interested in them being personalities,” he said. Niwa was also evasive when asked what inspired the Mille Crêpes. After many phone calls, I was allowed to visit the production kitchen in New York’s baking ghetto, Long Island City. The pastry chef, whose name I agreed not to mention, was marvelously precise, assembling the layers of docile cream and crepes in less than six minutes. (Niwa likes to time the chefs and find ways to shave off precious seconds.)

Back home, I decided to try to crack the mystery of the Mille Crêpes. I opened ”Joy of Cooking,” and right among the pancake recipes is one for crepe cake, made with a dozen crepes layered with lemon sauce. A similar version, layered with whipped cream and jam, called gâteau de crepes, appears in the Larousse Gastronomique. As the book explains, filled layers of crepes is an age-old recipe.

The top-secret Mille Crêpes is feasible to make at home after all. Using the crepe recipe from ”Joy of Cooking,” the vanilla pastry cream from ”Desserts,” by Pierre Herme and Dorie Greenspan, and my own whipped cream, my gâteau de crepes was charming the way the sagging roof of an old cottage is, and darn tasty.

But in fact, food is like fashion. Others may mimic, but style and faultless execution are the mark of a determined individual. People may copy Lady M’s Mille Crêpes, but when they want a perfect specimen, they will go to the store — or just pick up the telephone and have it delivered to their doors.