Name: Celebration Cake Friesian
Brand: Neal's Yard Dairy
SKU: 748
Price: 319.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

This beautiful celebration cake includes hard, blue, soft and goat's cheeses from across England and Ireland, that have been selected and matured by us.

Towers of smaller and larger cuts, and a whole Colston Bassett Stilton cheese with blue veining and a creamy, buttery paste

Close up of Colston Bassett Stilton cheese showing creamy paste and delicate blue veining

Colston Bassett Stilton

milk type
Cow

ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

A blue for those who ‘don’t like blues’, the Stilton we buy from Colston Bassett is made exclusively for Neal’s Yard Dairy. Gentler, sweeter and more balanced than a ‘typical’ blue cheese, it boasts a creamy, buttery paste pierced with the delicate blue veining characteristic of a Stilton.

Small tower of whole and cut turret-shaped Dorstone goat’s cheeses with a mould-covered grey wrinkly rind and light fluffy paste

Dorstone

milk type
Goat

ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

This turret-shaped goat’s cheese combines a light, fluffy texture with bright, citrusy flavours and a gentle acidity.

Minimum: 180g.

Tower of whole and cut pieces of Gubbeen semi-soft washed rind cow’s milk cheese, showing the patterned rind and creamy-coloured paste

Gubbeen

milk type
Cow

ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

A semi-soft washed rind cheese boasting a medley of savoury, nutty and fungal flavours and a bouncy, pliant texture with a pleasing bite at its pink rind.

Tower of whole and smaller cut pieces of Kirkham's Lancashire cheeses showing the lard bound outer-casing and crumbly textured paste

Kirkham's Lancashire

milk type
Cow

ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

Best known for its inimitable crumbly-yet-creamy texture – a texture the Kirkham family call ‘buttery crumble’ – this raw milk farmhouse Lancashire boasts a bright, full flavour finished off by a light, yoghurty tang.

Little Rollright

milk type
Cow

ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

This small version of Rollright is perfect for baking. A washed rind soft and oozing cow's milk cheese, wrapped in a band of spruce bark, the texture is soft and glossy, and the flavour milky, with substantial woody notes and a hint of peanut.

Minimum: 240g.

FAQs

As a general rule of thumb, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal. If you are buying cheese to serve over a couple of days or as part of a buffet, it is advisable to buy a few larger pieces. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams. If you are at all unsure please give us a call for some advice.

The best option is to keep your cheese wrapped in its paper within a box in the fridge. This will prevent the cheese from drying out and absorbing other flavours. Your cheese will arrive wrapped in waxed cheese paper, which achieves the best possible balance between maintaining humidity around the cheese and allowing it to breathe. We are happy to provide some free extra cheese paper, just search for "cheese paper" and add it to your basket. We don't recommend cling film or foil as it can cause the cheese to sweat which will negatively affect the flavour.