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
Would you like to take part in Channel 4′s Baking Mad Competition?
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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
November 7, 2011 By 4 Comments
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
Tate & Lyle Royal wedding baking competition
April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We know you all love competitions, so we thought we’d let you know about the latest Royal wedding themed competition from Tate & Lyle Sugars. Their current campaign is called ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ , a Royal Wedding baking competition.
Anybody can enter through Facebook with either a picture or drawing of their cake design. The winner will have their cake displayed at Wellington Arch, London for… Continue reading
Baking The Perfect Madeira Cake
December 17, 2009 By 387 Comments
After several requests from workshop students, I am posting the “Madeira Cake” blog. Good luck and hope this helps you.
Before working at Lindy’s I had never made a Madeira cake. My first attempts weren’t great – they came out of the oven domed, very crispy on the outside and really dry. I had conquered the decorating but the cakes weren’t getting eaten! So Lindy set me a challenge… Continue reading
Baking Mini Fruit cakes
May 19, 2009 By 69 Comments
Contrary to popular opinion, many people do like fruit cake and it’s not just the elderly. Fruit cake is one of my favourite cakes, as it is my 14 year old sons! The secret, I think, is to have a really good recipe – try the one in my books, it often converts people that say they don’t like fruit cake!
I’ve just had a go at… Continue reading
Why do my cakes sink in the middle?
May 13, 2009 By 48 Comments
Cakes usually sink when the cake batter is not completely cooked; everyone’s ovens are different so you need to find the optimum baking time for you oven. Also towards the end of baking test the cake repeatedly to see if it is fully baked. If a skewer inserted into the cake does not come out clean, then bake the cake for a little longer.
However other things can be… Continue reading
Why does Lindy use Madeira cakes?
February 27, 2009 By 135 Comments
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.
Baking deep Madeira/Chocolate cakes
February 26, 2009 By 109 Comments
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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