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
Opalescent colour palette for mini cakes
June 4, 2011 By 7 Comments
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment” is a quote from Claude Monet, the founder of French impressionist painting, and yesterday I had to agree with him! I am sure many of you know that I love to use colour on my cakes, I like to try new combinations to see what I can create. So yesterday I set myself the challenge of using a colour palette that is… Continue reading
Matriarch & vegetable inspires winning cake recipe
May 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
We are thrilled to bring you the second of our winners in our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. We loved this entry by Cecille Sia in the ‘Best Cake Recipe’ category. Cecille is one of our international cake friends and customer! She is from Manila in the Philippines, she grew up here and says that her Grandparents were hugely influential in her life. To us this story encapsulates what baking
Royal wedding, sugar inspirations @ Squires
March 11, 2011 By 5 Comments
I’ve just returned from a lovely day spent looking around the 25th Squires Cake Decorating, Chocolate and Sugarcraft Exhibition, Farnham, Surrey. It was wonderful to meet up with so many cake friends and such a treat for me to be a visitor rather than trader/demonstrator!!!
Unsurprisingly, there was a definite royal theme to some of the cakes and exhibits on display at the show. This large picture… Continue reading
Wedding Cake for Sex and the City 2
May 19, 2010 By 15 Comments
It’s not about the movie…. it’s not about SJP…. it’s not about who is Samatha’s latest squeeze… nor is it about the Manolos… it’s about the CAKE! Here at Lindy HQ we’ve been ooohing and aaahing over the recently released photos of the Wedding Cake created for the Sex and the City 2 movie, due for realease 27th May 2010. According to our sources, or rather what we’ve been able… Continue reading
A Wonky Raffle Prize at the School Fair!
May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Lindy generously donated the cake she made at Friday’s Wonky Cake Workshop to the John Hampden Infant School in Wendover . This is our local school and is where Lindy’s own children went many years ago. It is also the school that all of Lindy’s staff children past and present attend. What a treat!
Pupils admiring Lindy's Wonky Cake before the May fair!
Kiwi Rachel does Squires 2010 !
March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Wahey we’re off to Squires! I do love an exhibition and this particular one I have been looking forward to for some time. Having done the mega NEC extravaganza that is Cake International back in November, and survived, I felt well armed and ready for exhibition number two in my world! Towards the end of the day I was able to go ‘walkabout’ to visit other exhibitors and view the… Continue reading
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