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Cranachan

Cranachan is a traditional Scottish dessert made with whipped cream, raspberries, rolled oats and whisky.

In this recipe, the oats are made into a nougatine before being incorporated into the cream.

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Last modified on: October 13^th 2013

For 4 people, you will need:

0 150 g raspberries
1 2 tablespoons caster sugar
2 2 tablespoons whisky
3 100 g rolled oats
4 4 tablespoons caster sugar
5 200 ml Chantilly cream
6 200 ml whisky
7 100 ml honey
Total weight: 870 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
27 min.	15 min.	42 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 4 min.

Put 150 g raspberries into a bowl, sprinkle 2 tablespoons caster sugar and 2 tablespoons whisky over then set aside.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

Spread 100 g rolled oats out on a baking sheet, sprinkle with 4 tablespoons caster sugar and put in the oven.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Leave the sugar to caramelize in the oven to make the oat nougatine.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

When this is golden brown, remove from the oven and break up into coarse crumbs.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Begin assembling the dessert: put a layer of Chantilly (whipped cream) in the bottom of each glass.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Add a layer of raspberries and scatter some nougatine on top.

Stage 7 - 7 min.

Repeat this operation, finishing with a layer of whipped cream. Decorate with a raspberry and a pinch of nougatine.

Prepare some hot whisky with honey by melting 100 ml honey in 200 ml whisky (preferably Scottish) over low heat.

Serve immediately.

And to drink?

A small glass of whisky with honey.

Keeping:

Should be served immediately.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,633 Kcal or 11,024 Kj	22 gr	193 gr	136 gr
132 %	8 %	18 %	21 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
303 Kcal or 1,269 Kj	2 gr	22 gr	16 gr
15 %	1 %	2 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
658 Kcal or 2,755 Kj	5 gr	48 gr	34 gr
33 %	2 %	5 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 6.97 €
Per person : 1.74 €

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Source

After Nick Nairn.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Chantilly cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Strawberry Charlotte, Peach Melba, Warm apple feuillantines, Ice-cream Vacherin, Viennese chocolate cups, ... All
	Raspberries: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Raspberry sorbet, Framboisier, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Raspberry muffins, Raspberry tart, ... All
	Rolled oats: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Oat shortbread biscuits, Moist cereal bars, Granola, Chocolate cereal bars, Oatmeal cake, ... All
	Honey: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Nonettes, Amandier (gluten-free almond cake), Panettone, Hazelnut and orange cake, Gingerbread, ... All

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Hi JH, That sure looks good. I've never heard of Cranachan before. Just look at what I've been missing, lol...Thank you so much for sharing...
Posted by Louise october 14^th 2013 at 03:39 (n° 1)

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