The soft cheese stole the show in the highly competitive cooking cheeses category, winning two coveted gold awards and a bronze award.

Full Fat Soft Cheese (Plain) and American Style Full Fat Soft Cheese both won gold, with the company also celebrating a bronze award for its Medium Fat Soft Cheese (Plain).

Dairygold was the only company to receive a gold award in the cooking cheeses category and won three of only seven awards made in this category.

Terry Cunningham, Dairygold Food Ingredients’ Sales & Marketing Director, said: “The British Cheese Awards is a celebration of the very best in British cheese-making. Winning three awards – and in particular two gold’s - is testimony to the outstanding quality and variety of soft cheeses produced by the Leeds dairy for many of the leading names in the UK food production industry.”

Dairygold supplies soft cheeses to a wide range of food producers including desserts, ready meals, bakeries, sandwich producers and many other sectors of the foodservice industry.

Over 900 cheeses were entered into this year’s British Cheese Awards by almost 180 cheese makers, resulting in this year’s competition being the toughest ever. The awards were held on the evening of Friday, September 24, at the National Museum, Cardiff.