January 27, 2012

Baking and Street Market Inspiration in Taupo, New Zealand

On a recent trip to my parents home in Taupo, New Zealand, my mother took me to the most wonderful market. The Taupo Riverside Market is a weekly market held every Saturday morning. With a focus on bread, arts and crafts, free-range eggs, baking, second hand goods, Murray’s second hand books, clothing, carvings, Hugh’s hand made furniture, honey, flowers, coffee beans, photographs, natural beauty products… and so much more! A… Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27

  • I posted 6 photos on Facebook in the album "Christmas Bauble Class 2011" http://t.co/oqXDwu7D #
  • What a fun and festive workshop we had today…..well done everyone! #
  • Newsflash: The popular 'Chandeleir' stencil set is back in stock. As are all our 'festive' stencils. Have you been… http://t.co/yQ1T9hU6 #
  • Are you celebrating Thanks Giving today?? #
  • Christmas

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

  • At long last all our spring workshop details have been published – apologies for the delay, where do all the… http://t.co/tfnw4uJs #
  • Details of our 'Designer Wedding Cookies', our most popular cookie decorating class have just been published…. http://t.co/R0NsQHcj #
  • So many questions were asked about my brush embroidered cake at the NEC, that I thought you'd like to know

Lindy’s cracker cookie features in new magazine: Love Baking

We are thrilled to see Lindy’s work featured in a new glossy magazine called Love Baking Cupcakes and Sweet Treats. On the cover of issue 1, you will see Lindy’s Stencilled cupcakes. Dive inside and Lindy’s work features on page 41 with a step by step stencilling tutorial featuring Lindy’s stencilled cupcakes  from her ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ using  the… Continue reading

Sugarcraft Inspiration at Cake International 2011

The cake show at the NEC is always very busy, but this year I seemed to have less time than ever to see all the amazing cakes and sugarcraft creations and unfortunately only managed to have a really brief look at some of the tables. Here is a selection of what I saw, I hope you find them inspiring.

I love the colours used on this cake and the… Continue reading

Cake International 2011 – The Lindy’s Cakes Stand

Over 25,000 people attended Cake International last weekend… so that explains it!  What a show, what a buzz, what a busy stand we had!  This is Lindy’s 9th NEC Cake show and this year was bigger and better than ever.  Months and months of preparation went into our stand. We spend hours brain storming about how to make our stand fabulous, relevant and accessible. Lindy ‘locked’ herself away in her… Continue reading

Lindy’s new cake stencil designs prove extremely popular

As many of you know, I’m currently addicted to cake stencils….no seriously I am, I simply can’t seem to get enough of them. They are so easy to use and so versatile, whether you use them to subtly emboss your sugarpaste or to make bold statements on the top of your cakes or anything in between.

Last weekend, at Cake International 2011, Lindy’s Cakes  launched a further eight NEW… Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

  • I posted 15 photos on Facebook in the album “Lindy’s New Stencils November 2011″ http://t.co/cwSJRH0a #
  • Just popped a lumberjack cake into the oven, it’s a date and apple recipe – can’t wait to see how it turns out…..looks promising so far… #
  • Our Olive has bought in ANZAC biscuits for morning tea today…I am one very happy KiwiRachel

Lindy’s NEW cake bible book goes down a treat

I had a feeling that my new book ‘The contemporary cake decoratoring bible’ was going to prove popular with my students, fans and fellow cake decorators but nothing had prepared me for quite how popular it was to be at last weekends ‘Cake International 2011′ show at the NEC. I have never in my life signed so many books all… Continue reading

Would you like to take part in Channel 4′s Baking Mad Competition?

Are you passionate about baking? Have you got some impressive dessert recipes up your sleeve that could wow even a master baker? If so, you might be interested in applying to take part Channel 4′s hit show Baking mad.

The show is looking for passionate bakers to compete in a mini bake off, all details in the flyer below:

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Olive’s Fabulous Flapjacks: Recipe

This is a tried and tested recipe at Lindy HQ. We all love our accounts lady, Olive’s  flapjacks. They are oatylicious, not too sweet and have just the right amount of chew! Olive likes to adorn hers with a decadent topping of dark chocolate, but these flapjacks are just as delcious naked! Or, if you would like just a hint of chocolate try drizzling some  randomly over the

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06

  • Wow… so many people love sugarcraft…and cakes…and Lindy! It was a sweet saturday at Cake International… http://t.co/2O5RXlYw #
  • One down…two to go! We have had a brilliant first day at Cake International on the Lindy’s Cake stand! The… http://t.co/in8EMwoB #
  • It’s oh so quiet… after months of preparation and an office that can only be described as