The dessert of cream and fresh seasonal raspberries is bolstered by Scottish oats and whisky.

A traditional way to serve cranachan is to bring dishes of each ingredient to the table so that each person can assemble their own dessert to taste.

Earlier recipes used crowdie cheese instead of, or in addition to cream and were sometimes called cream-crowdie.

Other earlier recipes are more austere, omitting the whisky and treating the fruit as an optional extra.

More modern recipes have swapped the crowdie cheese for a simple whipped cream.