Name: Celebration Cake Friesian
Brand: Neal's Yard Dairy
SKU: 748
Price: 335.0 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.

Colston Bassett Stilton cheese showing creamy paste and delicate blue veining

Colston Bassett Stilton

milk type
Cow

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

coagulant
Animal Rennet

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.

Dorstone

milk type
Goat

ingredients
Pasteurised Goat's MILK, Salt, Animal Rennet, Cultures (contains trace cow's MILK)

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

coagulant
Animal Rennet

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

Kirkham's Lancashire

milk type
Cow

ingredients
Raw Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal 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.

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.

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.