Welcome to our amazing world of sugarcraft and cake decoration
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
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
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
Eight keen students embarked on their introduction to celebration cakes workshop and eight fabulous cakes were created! Lindy got things underway by introducing the students to sugarpaste. She did a taste test of four different makes of sugarpastes to show how they can differ and to see which one the ladies liked the best. She then moved on to the covering of the board with sugarpaste to give a professional finish.
Lindy talked about… Continue reading
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