Mimolette is another good looking, great tasting gourmet cheese that is really worth trying and a delight on your cheeseboard.
Mimolette is a gourmet cheese that looks like an orange soccer ball with a light powdering of snow.
This mature version of the French cheese from the Lille is a pressed cooked cheese that is aged 12 months. This gourmet cheese has a distinctive flavor of butterscotch and caramel. The rind is fairly smooth in the young cheese but, as it ages, it becomes thick and deeply pitted. Cheese mites proliferate in these pits to give the characteristic powdery appearance of the older cheese.
The paste is dyed to a deep orange color which darkens toward the rind. The texture is firm and breaks rather like fudge.
Similar cheeses are aged Edam or Dutch Farmhouse cheese.