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Raspberry Cranachan

  • Time preparation 10
  • cook time 20min
  • Serve Serves 10

  • 140g butter
  • 4 tbsps honey (preferably Scottish heather)
  • 200g whole jumbo porridge oats
  • 100g golden caster sugar
  • 100g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
  • 85g plain flour
  • 850ml double cream
  • 250g Crowdie or Mascarpone
  • 140g icing sugar, sifted
  • 6 tbsps whisky
  • 1kg frozen raspberries, defrosted
  • 2 tbsps icing sugar

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ Gas Mark 4. Melt the butter and honey in a large pan. Add the oats, caster sugar, hazelnuts and flour and stir until thoroughly combined. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes until crisp. Once cold, crumble into pieces.

Beat the cream, Crowdie (or Mascarpone), sifted icing sugar and whisky until smooth and the mixture holds soft peaks. Stir a little more icing sugar into the raspberries according to taste.

Spoon some raspberries into the bottom of 10 glasses, add a layer of cream to each and then a layer of oats. Repeat until all the raspberries, whisky cream and oats have been used, finishing with a layer of oats on top.

Ingredients

  • 140g butter
  • 4 tbsps honey (preferably Scottish heather)
  • 200g whole jumbo porridge oats
  • 100g golden caster sugar
  • 100g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
  • 85g plain flour
  • 850ml double cream
  • 250g Crowdie or Mascarpone
  • 140g icing sugar, sifted
  • 6 tbsps whisky
  • 1kg frozen raspberries, defrosted
  • 2 tbsps icing sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ Gas Mark 4. Melt the butter and honey in a large pan. Add the oats, caster sugar, hazelnuts and flour and stir until thoroughly combined. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes until crisp. Once cold, crumble into pieces.

Beat the cream, Crowdie (or Mascarpone), sifted icing sugar and whisky until smooth and the mixture holds soft peaks. Stir a little more icing sugar into the raspberries according to taste.

Spoon some raspberries into the bottom of 10 glasses, add a layer of cream to each and then a layer of oats. Repeat until all the raspberries, whisky cream and oats have been used, finishing with a layer of oats on top.

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