Rarely a week goes by when we are not asked about Lindy’s first book Hobby Cakes and this is no exception. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the book contains amongst others:
Often Madeira cake is left plain but there are lots of ingredients that you can use to add a different flavour.
For a six egg quantity Madeira, an 20cm (8 inch) round cake, try one of the following
I’ve just come in and seen one of the cakes that Lindy is working on for the Wonky Cake DVD. It’s absolutely gorgeous and definitely my favourite Wonky so far.
It will be one of the 5 new Wonky’s featured on the DVD
We are often asked about how to use ball tins. Firstly, it’s worth mentioning that the ball tins we sell have the manufacturer’s suggestions/instructions printed on the reverse of the box label so please remove it if you are throwing the box out!
We are often asked “Can you use a carrot cake/Victoria sponge etc?”
The simple answer is that Lindy prefers not to for two reasons.
To get nice high sided cakes (you need 3 inches for carving Lindy’s wonky cakes) try wrapping the outside of the cake tin with newspaper (just like you would for a fruit cake). This slows down the cooking of the outside of the cake allowing time for the sides to reach the right height. You may find that
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