Welcome to our amazing world of sugarcraft and cake decoration
Well at long last I’ve found a few spare hours to add my exciting new sugarcraft cutters to our online shop. The cutters were all designed to help me decorate the new cakes that will appear in my DVD’s shortly. I’ve loved using them so I hope you find them inspirational too.
There are 4 new sets which have a myriad of uses… Continue reading
My wonky style cake classes have always been very popular; they are also ones of my favourite classes to teach. Students arrive not really knowing what to expect and go home having learnt not only how to carve and cover my signature style cakes but also armed with lots of tips and ideas to help them decorate their own cakes. Friday’s class was no exception; as usual we had a… Continue reading
I love using patchwork cutters to help me decorate my cakes; they are so easy and effective. I have used the clematis cutter on one of the demonstration cakes in my ‘Cake Jewellery Gems’ DVD. I think it works really well and is so simple.
Clematis flower cake decoration by Lindy Smith
As followers of colour trends will know, mango and raspberry are one of this seasons colour combinations, so I was delighted today to find that our wholesaler has a new bullion wire colour called raspberry – what fun!
Raspberry Bullion Wire with fuchsia behind
I know many of you enjoy using my stainless steel sugarcraft cutters, however if you are a little unsure on the best way to achieve perfect results each time then here are a few tips that you may find useful:
The pastes to use
Sugarpaste, also referred to as rolled fondant or ready roll icing, is available from supermarkets and cake decorating suppliers in many countries of the world. However not everyone likes what is available to them and many countries new to the craft of cake decorating do not have a ready source of sugarpaste, so I’m often asked how is it made.
We are very lucky here in the UK we… Continue reading
I have recently discovered that my ‘Storybook Cakes’ book has become a bookazine in Australia! Basically a bookazine is a book/part of a book in magazine format. From what I understand Storybook cakes has been used as the content of a bookazine published by Derwent Media called ‘Novelty Cakes’ and is currently on sale in Australia in newsagents
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