Orange Cranachan

Similar to the (original) Cranachan we made a year and a half ago, and about just as good.

Again, you need to be really careful with the oats - I let them burn on my first attempt, but luckily it's easy to just toss them out and start again. Remembering the other recipe, I didn't use the cheap clear, runny honey we had, but our good-quality heather honey, and that really made a difference (we used a cheap whisly, however - now I'm curious how it'd taste with a, say, earthy Tallisker).

I was surprised to see that you were supposed to mix the oatmeal through the cream, as I remembered that the other recipe differed in this respect - in the end that didn't matter, both versions are nice. And I noticed that this version used a mixture of single cream and Greek yoghurt (which we substituted with Quark), not solely double cream.

We actually used 2 oranges and 2 blood oranges (would have used 4 blood oranges if we had had them). I could actually see this recipe work with quite a number of fruits. For some reason, pomegranate is the very first that comes to my mind; mango would probably work as well.

Edited 20 March 2016: I made this again, though this time I mixed all ingredients (except for the oranges and some of the oats) a few hours in advance instead of just moments before serving - and the flavours just disappeared! I could hardly taste any whisky, nor honey nor anything else! I think they used their time to meld into one big flavour, while I prefer to taste them seperately. So whip the cream beforehand, but assemble everything a la minute.