Fruit cake and cheese - it's a combination that some people love! Strange but true.
So. this is a bit of an experiment. People keep telling me that we ought to offer a cake that includes both fruit cake and cheese. Wensleydale is most often mentioned, and so we first came up with this. But then ... we wondered whether there was another way you could come at this? Here's the result, which uses three layers of fruitcake plus a Duckett's Caerphilly and a White Nancy.
See also ... cheesecake / fruitcake 1. These two look great together, by the way.
Cheese Only!
As I say, this is an experiment. So at the moment we're going to sell it as 'cheese only'. You'd need 10", 6" and 2" fruitcakes to complete it, and we're thinking that most families include a cake-maker.* Mind you, if people are interested (let me know!) we'll try and sort out the cake side of things too: I'm sure that ought to be possible.
*We found that you need to cut the top off the cake so that it's flat, turning it upside-down to get a clean top edge. Also, it's best to slip a thin board between cake and cheese. Incidentally, to get the tiny 2" cake, Annie made a 4" one then cut it down to a 2" square ...
