Southern Cheese Cake

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The Southern Cheese Cake is the cake for those who want to showcase the best the South has to offer in artisan cheeses, while also providing a variety of tastes and textures.

Quick Facts:

The Cheeses:

Top Tier: Asher Blue

Asher Blue, from Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville Georgia, is a strong firm blue cheese. Sweet Grass Dairy uses all pasture fed Jersey cow's milk for their cheeses, resulting in beautiful robust natural flavors and vibrant coloration. Asher blue is fairly strong and tangy but not particularly salty relative to other blue cheeses.

Cow's Milk

Georgia

Second Tier: Julianna

Capriole Dairy's Julianna is a brie-like cheese made with goat's milk, its rind coated with herbs like rosemary and thyme, and calendula petals.  The cheese is silky in texture, and tastes so delicate you almost might not recognize it's made with goat milk. A wonderful emblem of Spring, and a wonderful converter for people just dipping their toes in the world of goat cheese.  

Goat's Milk

Indiana

Third Tier: Eldo

New cheesemaker Haro Cheese recently started making raw cows milk cheese in Bertram, Texas. Inspired by Manchego, Eldo has a natural rind that is rubbed with vegetable ash, giving it a black rind. Tangy and smooth and lightly citrusy, Eldo is a lovely snacking cheese to enjoy with a crisp white wine or fruity red. 

Cow's Milk

Texas

Fourth Tier: Thomasville Tomme

A raw cow's milk cheese made in the style of a French farmhouse table cheese. Featuring a natural-rind, this semi-soft cheese has a subtle, yet complex earthy flavor and creamy texture.

Cow's Milk

Georgia, USA

Bottom Tier: Appalachian Cheese

Appalachian is a lush, vibrant cheese evocative of cream and butter with a mushroom earthiness. Its lemon notes shade to toasted as the cheese ages with a texture that is velvety, melting on the tongue.

Cow's Milk

Virginia, USA