Provenance Food Hall’s pistachio cheesecake is a winner

Pistachio cereal, pistachio coffee, pistachio doughnuts – it was always going to be a natural evolution of the trend to try pairing it with cheesecake. The flavour that goes well with anything combined with the dessert that works with everything.

It seems like it would be a safe bet. It is.

(Image: Dan Dougherty)

A particularly decadent and delicious variety of pistachio cheesecake happens to be available right now at Provenance Food Hall, Westhoughton.

First of all, the cheesecake base. It’s of the ‘burnt Basque’ variety, which, as every dessert lover knows, is pretty much the apex of all the available cheesecake variants.

Sweet, tart, and rich as velvet, burnt Basque cheesecake features a hard-ish, slightly burned exterior that gives way to a mellow yellow softness underneath.

The pistachio burnt Basque cheesecake with other cheesecakes at Provenance (Image: Provenance Food Hall)

So that’s five stars for the cheesecake itself, but what about its adornments? The first thing that any customer will notice is that this is a particularly luxurious cheesecake offering. The pistachio sauce is spread so thickly atop the cheesecake base that it almost looks like a wedding cake. Dollops of rich whipped cream are piped into the corner of each slice.

Then – in a continuation of the wedding theme – there is the rose petals. I don’t know what possessed the baker to add rose petals to a cheesecake. I don’t know if this is common, I don’t know if this is rare. Is it inspiration, or divine madness? Either way, it works extremely well – the sharpness providing a wonderful counterpoint to the rich, creamy, dairy heavy dessert.

The Provenance Food Hall cheesecakes are produced by Wigan-based baker ‘The Bascake’, who serves a range of fantastic cheesecakes at markets around the Wigan and Bolton area.