Lindy’s Cakes Blog

What a lovely surprise to find out that my dragon cake has won the Cakes and Sugarcraft magazine’s iconic cakes competition – I’m so thrilled and delighted.

The magazine also  described me as “one of the UK’s best-loved cake decorators” which is very gratifying.

This cake truly deserves a much more glamorous name. I have been baking it since my mother taught me the recipe in the 1980s, an eager teenage cook desperate to emulate my mother’s glorious creations! It has a certain nostalgia in our family appearing at all birthdays and special events through the decades to this very day. A versatile sponge that works equally well iced simply, served with a cup… Continue reading

All that glitters is … Lindy’s Cake Jewellery Class! Six plain cakes covered in white sugarpaste arrived at Lindy’s workshop this morning… six stunning jewelled cakes left this afternoon.

Working with wires, of various widths and strengths Lindy began the class with a thorough explanation and demonstration of how to use them to create garlands and crowns. She then moved on to the beads. The… Continue reading

‘This is the perfect day out’ remarked a student on this ever popular novelty cake course. The cat cake is an excellent course for the beginner to intermediate sugarcrafter. Lindy got things started by getting the students to cover their cake boards. The ladies used lovely shades of pinks & purples, the perfect background for a white cat! Then the fun really begins with the carving and shaping of the cat… Continue reading

• Pear and dark chocolate cupcakes just out of the oven, another new recipe! They taste scrumptious hot and a great way to use up all my pears #
• Getting ready for tomorrows cake jewellery workshop, but which beads and wires to take….there is so much choice! #
• Mixed reaction in the office today over the polenta cake. Some loved it, others weren't so keen

We’re in! Lindy’s Cakes has moved to fantastic new offices. The mail-order ladies are really happy with the space, light,  and their swanky new packing table.  They are going to be even more efficient than they already are! And the rest of us are delighted with our new desks and computers.

A change is as good as a rest they say and at Lindy’s Cakes HQ we are up… Continue reading

Today I had a day off work to attend one of Lindys courses, today I made a whale cake, today I got totally hooked on sugarcrafting, today it all made sense! There’s no going back!  Having said to Lindy that even if my whale turned out like a blue blob my little boys would love it, I have actually come home with, if I may say so myself, a rather fabulous… Continue reading

• First full day at our super new premises was a real treat. Everything is now so much more efficient, hope the novelty doesn't go to soon! #
• Students on todays wonky style cake workshop thought that the carving was easier than they'd expected but the covering was much harder!! #
• The Lindy's Cakes new phone number is +44 (0)1296 622418, so why not give

• Lots of smug cats left my cake carving class today! Well done girls you excelled yourselves, hope your new feline friends go down a treat! #
• Everyone has been sampling my coffee and walnut cupakes today, verdict – good texure, moist but they needed more coffee, any suggestions? #
• Nearly a full class again tomorrow – it's the novelty cake carving course, just about

Just to let you know that our  Spring 2010 workshops are now published – so book your spaces today!!!!   Lindy has included some new and exciting classes as well as our ever  popular ones.

Why not be inspired by a cupcake class

Thank you for letting us know the workshops… Continue reading