
Raspberry Cranachan
- Type : Dessert
Simple Scottish foods exquisitely combined.
Ingredients
- 140g butter
- 4 tbsp honey (preferably Scottish heather)
- 200g whole jumbo porridge oats
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 100g hazelnuts roughly chopped
- 85g plain flour
- 850ml double cream
- 250g mascarpone
- 140g icing sugar sifted
- 6 tbsp whisky
- 1kg frozen raspberries defrosted
- approx 2 tbsp icing sugar
Method
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Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
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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.
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Beat the cream, mascarpone, sifted icing sugar and whisky until smooth and the mixture holds soft peaks.
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Stir icing sugar into the raspberries according to taste.
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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.
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