Lindy’s Cakes Blog

This is quite simply the most perfect cake for Mother’s Day! Originally designed by Lindy, this heart shaped cake with pale pink and yellow sugarpaste and decorated with daisies and flowers will definately impress.  A really pretty cake that is perfect for Mother’s day, a celebration or a birthday cake. It also makes a lovely little girls cake… as I discovered from my 4 yr old neice ‘ I love this cake Aunty Rach, can you make me one!’  Erm, might need to do the course first!!

The students on this workshop carved fantastic heart shapes.  Lindy and Sally were impressed. This course is great for a beginner too, particulary as there is a big focus on the carving. Carving is a great skill to have in cake decorating. When you learn the skill of cake carving it really opens up new creative avenues for cake design. It is also good to learn to cover a ’shaped’ cake with sugarpaste. It never fails to amaze me how maliable sugarpaste is! This course gives you the oppurtunity to cover a curved shape, and to use two different colours of sugarpaste with a seam in the middle,  or a ‘wavy join’ as Lindy puts it!

Carving the heart...

There was a real feeling of spring on this course – the students came armed with pretty sugarpaste colours.  We even had our colleague Susie on the course, her  first cake course since starting work for Lindy’s Cakes.  Go Susie, there will be no stopping you now!  The students covered their cakes extremely well and the flower decorations added a lovely individual style to the heart. No two cakes are ever the same and the workshop environment is the perfect place to experiement with shapes, colours and techniques.  Today we used Daisy Cutters, Daisy Centre Stamp,  Five- Petal Blossom Cutters and the Miniature Blossom Plunger.

Simply Gorgeous!

Well done ladies, your cakes look wonderful! Pastel colours and flowers… it’s a great combination! Spring is in the air!

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In sugarcraft you just have to know the basics. It’s what turns your cake from something OK to something rather special.  This ‘beginners’ workshop is a wonderful platform for learning, and it’s a really good idea to have someone teach you the basics in a class setting.  You learn so much in a day, there are lots of little tips that make a huge difference to the quality of your finished cake… it is worth… Continue reading

Want to add some Razzamatazz to your cakes… Keen for your cakes to Shimmer… Looking for cake Bling factor? Read on…

At Lindy’s cakes, Cake Jewellery has really taken off and our jewellery workshop has become super popular. If you want to take cake decorating to a whole new creative level then look no further.  As one student put it  “this gives me another string to my bow, another… Continue reading

It’s the ultimate cake course, the one that many followers of Lindy’s work aspire to…… to carve or not to carve – that is the question!

What a great day this Wonky class had. Lindy and the team were able to move through the stages of this course quite quickly because the students attending were competant sugarcrafters. The wonky cake is not a beginners cake, it takes a good degree of carving and… Continue reading

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• Just returned from a very lively and enjoyable cake jewellery

• Have you organised a cake for Mothers Day, Sunday 14th March? If not, we still have spaces on our 'floral heart'… http://bit.ly/aI8xHe #
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• Would you like us to supply wonky dummies and if so which sizes and how many tiers?

We have just added a large selection of quality cupcake cases to our online shop. We’re so excited; when you see them all together it’s like being a kid in a sweet shop you just don’t know which one to choose!! Will it be the bright colourful plain ones, the beautiful metallic ‘High Tea’ selection or perhaps the adorable bite-sized mini selection? There again the metallic foils are so glamorous…decisions… Continue reading

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Just in time for this years wedding season ….. Lindy’s new waistcoat and top hat cookie cutters. whether you take your design inspiration from the groom’s waistcoat or from the embossers in your tool box, cookie favours for men are always a hit!

Wedding waistcoat and top hat cookies

These… Continue reading