Name: Celebration Cake Chillingham
Brand: Neal's Yard Dairy
SKU: 758
Price: 312.5 GBP
Availability: InStock

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

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

Durrus

milk type
Cow

ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

A smooth, soft washed-rind cheese with flavours that are milky and buttery. Its mouth-coating texture and gentle flavours make it an easy-eating cheese.

Tower of whole and smaller cut pieces of cloth-bound Isle of Mull Cheddar cheese with a firm close-textured paste

Isle of Mull

milk type
Cow

ingredients
Raw Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Clothbound with Lard

coagulant
Animal Rennet

A hearty Scottish cheese with a firm, fondant-like texture that tends to be slightly more compact than the other Cheddars we sell. Flavours range from juicy and zesty to boozy and deeply savoury.

Clothbound with lard.

Pile of whole and cut washed rind Little Rollright cow’s milk cheeses, with a soft paste and wrapped in a band of spruce bark

Little Rollright

milk type
Cow

ingredients
Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet

coagulant
Animal Rennet

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

Minimum: 240g.

Tower of whole and cut pieces of Sinodun Hill goat’s cheese, with a golden-coloured, mould-flecked, wrinkly rind and light, white paste

Sinodun Hill

milk type
Goat

ingredients
Pasteurised Goat's MILK, Salt, Vegetarian Coagulant, Cheese Cultures

coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant

The yoghurty flavour of this cheese is complemented by a delicate, almost red-fruit flavour from the wrinkly, golden coloured rind. The texture of the paste is pleasantly light, almost whipped.

Minimum: 160g.

Towers of smaller and larger cuts, and a whole Stichelton cheese with blue veining and a soft creamy paste

Close up of a piece of Stichelton cheese, sat on a larger cut piece of cheese, showing the developed rind, and blue veined, soft creamy paste

Stichelton

milk type
Cow

ingredients
Raw Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Penicillium roqueforti

coagulant
Animal Rennet

A juicy acidity and toasty, biscuity notes toward the rind are the hallmarks of Stichelton, though the range of flavours this soft, creamy raw milk blue can exhibit is extraordinary: from crisp green apple right through to beef stock umami.

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.