Lindy’s Cakes Blog

This is quite simply the most perfect cake for Mother’s Day! Originally designed by Lindy, this heart shaped cake with pale pink and yellow sugarpaste and decorated with daisies and flowers will definately impress.  A really pretty cake that is perfect for Mother’s day, a celebration or a birthday cake. It also makes a lovely little girls cake… as I discovered from my 4 yr old neice ‘ I love this cake Aunty Rach, can you make me one!’  Erm, might need to do the course first!!

The students on this workshop carved fantastic heart shapes.  Lindy and Sally were impressed. This course is great for a beginner too, particulary as there is a big focus on the carving. Carving is a great skill to have in cake decorating. When you learn the skill of cake carving it really opens up new creative avenues for cake design. It is also good to learn to cover a ’shaped’ cake with sugarpaste. It never fails to amaze me how maliable sugarpaste is! This course gives you the oppurtunity to cover a curved shape, and to use two different colours of sugarpaste with a seam in the middle,  or a ‘wavy join’ as Lindy puts it!

Carving the heart...

There was a real feeling of spring on this course – the students came armed with pretty sugarpaste colours.  We even had our colleague Susie on the course, her  first cake course since starting work for Lindy’s Cakes.  Go Susie, there will be no stopping you now!  The students covered their cakes extremely well and the flower decorations added a lovely individual style to the heart. No two cakes are ever the same and the workshop environment is the perfect place to experiement with shapes, colours and techniques.  Today we used Daisy Cutters, Daisy Centre Stamp,  Five- Petal Blossom Cutters and the Miniature Blossom Plunger.

Simply Gorgeous!

Well done ladies, your cakes look wonderful! Pastel colours and flowers… it’s a great combination! Spring is in the air!

For more information on our workshops click here. Look our for our new Summer Workshop Schedule coming soon!

In sugarcraft you just have to know the basics. It’s what turns your cake from something OK to something rather special.  This ‘beginners’ workshop is a wonderful platform for learning, and it’s a really good idea to have someone teach you the basics in a class setting.  You learn so much in a day, there are lots of little tips that make a huge difference to the quality of your finished cake… it is worth… Continue reading

Want to add some Razzamatazz to your cakes… Keen for your cakes to Shimmer… Looking for cake Bling factor? Read on…

At Lindy’s cakes, Cake Jewellery has really taken off and our jewellery workshop has become super popular. If you want to take cake decorating to a whole new creative level then look no further.  As one student put it  “this gives me another string to my bow, another… Continue reading

It’s the ultimate cake course, the one that many followers of Lindy’s work aspire to…… to carve or not to carve – that is the question!

What a great day this Wonky class had. Lindy and the team were able to move through the stages of this course quite quickly because the students attending were competant sugarcrafters. The wonky cake is not a beginners cake, it takes a good degree of carving and… Continue reading

We have a few spaces available on our Wonky Style Cake and More Cake Jewellery classes.

Now is the time to have a go! If you love cakes or jewellery, or both, then this is a super day out… 

Wonky Style Cake

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With our insatiable desire to do something different for a wedding, the wedding cake is sharing centre stage these days. Wedding ‘favours’ have become very popular. Lindy’s Designer Wedding Cookies make stunnning wedding favours. Placed in clear cellophane bags and tied with ribbon, they are a stylish, delicious treat… a work of art to take away to remind you of that special day.  This course will give you… Continue reading

Our spring workshops are well under way, and no set of cake class themes would be complete without the Introduction to Celebration Cakes. This is the ultimate course for the novice sugarcrafter. It is basic cake covering at it’s best, the humble beginnings of sugarcrafting. For if you can master this then you really are on the way to being able to create super cakes with sugarpaste!

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Cupcakes, cupcakes and more cupcakes – they seem to be everywhere I turn!!! I have always made and decorated cupcakes but I first came across cupcakes in large numbers when teaching in Australia last summer. Everywhere I visited seemed to have a cupcake shop just round the corner! On my return to the UK in September my publishers asked me to write another book – and yes, surprise surprise, it… Continue reading

With Mother’s Day being just one week after this course it is a wonderful oppurtunity to make a beautiful cake for your mother, or someone special in your life!

Friday 5th March 2010: Floral Heart Cake Course

A stunning feminine cake!

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We ended our 2009 workshop programme on a high today. A fabulous day creating cookies styled as christmas crackers, party frocks, party shoes and balloons.   We are feeling very festive here at Lindy’s Cakes. Even more so because myself and my colleague Sarah, from the mail-order team, had the day off real work today to be students in this class! Oh the perks of working for Lindy Smith… and before you ask… Continue reading