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Lindy’s dragon cake in iconic cakes Final!

July 31, 2009 By 4 Comments

Cakes and sugarcraft magazine have just published the 5 cake finalists in their 100 iconic cakes series and I am honoured that you, the voting public, have chosen my dragon cake as one of these finalists! 

Lindy's Dragon Cake

Lindy's Dragon Cake

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How do I change cake recipe quantities?

July 27, 2009 By 117 Comments

I keep being asked how to adapt/scale a cake recipe to bake a larger or smaller cake. It’s not difficult and instructions are given in both my ‘Cakes to Inspire and Desire’ and ‘Celebrate with a cake!’ books! Below however is the chart you will need:

How to use the chart:

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

July 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
  • Just taken delivery of a cute notepad for my trip down under, isn’t technology wonderful – now “playing” with it to see exactly how it works #
  • Recieved lots of great comments on my blog today, have you visited recently? http://www.lindyscakes.co.uk/Blog/ why not take a look now! #
  • Just found a photo of one of my jewellery cakes on the Cake
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Summer cookies workshop

July 13, 2009 By 7 Comments

Decorating cookies is always so much fun and Friday’s class was no exception.

 ”I could do this all day everyday” was one students comment!

The cookies that we decorated were all inspired by summer so first up was a pair of flip flops - there are so many possibilities with these, but as this was the first cookie everyone was to decorate I kept the… Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

July 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
  • My students and I became swimsuit designers today, what fun…cookie decorating is such a fab way to experiment with design and colour! #
  • The sun’s shining and I’m teaching summer cookie decoration today. Its icecream cones, bikinis and flip flops what could be more appropriate! #
  • New sugarcraft Butterfly cutter has just arrived http://bit.ly/dgRyh
    as used in my dvd #
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Cheeky chimp – novelty cake class

July 7, 2009 By 1 Comment

Well I think a very enjoyable day was had by all on Friday’s cheeky chimp cake carving workshop.  I certainly enjoyed helping all the students achieve a cake that they were proud to take home.

The class was to introduce the students to the art of carving cake, something that many feel frightened of even attempting!

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Corian cake boards – now in stock

July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Many of you that have seen my wonky cake dvd have been asking about the corain work board that I use. The company where I bought mine, many years ago, no longer supply corian so we are delighted to announce that we have found a local manufacturer to supply us and that our first delivery of stock has just arrived.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05

July 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
  • Excellent cake class today, lots of fun, happy students, great cakes – a student quote “I’m not cutting this cake I’m keeping it forever”… #
  • Cheeky Chimp novelty cake carving workshop today – one student flying in from Canada and another down from Scotland – should be a good day! #
  • Australian cake seminar notes all completed, sent and recieved – the wonders
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