February 4, 2012

Julie’s Cake Hobby – A perfect pastime!

We’ve got a name for students that do lots of courses with us…’Serial Workshoppers’! And I think I can safely say that Julie Marney is one of our most prolific workshoppers to date! We love a familiar face in our workshops because it’s like catching up with old friends. We enjoy building up a cake friendship with our students and Julie truly is a friend of Lindy’s Cakes!  … Continue reading

Wedding Cake for Sex and the City 2

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

Squires Exhibition 2010

We’re just back from an exhaustingly fabulous day at Squires Kitchen Annual Exhibition in Farnham, Surrey.  This show celebrates sugarcraft, food and cake decoration. What a wonderful excuse to leave the office behind and surround one self in sugar heaven!  We exhibited over two days taking a selection of products to share. This year Lindy’s Cakes focused on cookies, cutters, cake jewellery, beads, wires,

More Cake Jewellery Workshop

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

Lindy’s Cakes at the NEC – 2009

Cake International… the sugarcraft event of the year… what a show… we were there… and it was AMAZING!

There was an effervescent buzz around our stand within minutes of the doors opening that it made us newbies at Lindy’s Cakes realise what a huge following Lindy has.  We hardly had time to come up for air but managed to connect with lots of enthusiatic cake and cake jewellery fans over the course of… Continue reading

Cake Jewellery Workshop

All that glitters is … Lindy’s Cake Jewellery Class! Six plain cakes covered in white sugarpaste arrived at Lindy’s workshop this morning… six stunning jewelled cakes left this afternoon.

Working with wires, of various widths and strengths Lindy began the class with a thorough explanation and demonstration of how to use them to create garlands and crowns. She then moved on to the beads. The… Continue reading

Lindy’s front cover jewellery cake

I heard on the grapevine last week that my Pink Fizz cake jewellery cake was on the cover of Cake Craft and Decoration magazine this month, still not received my copy but I can confirm that it is on the cover – Looks great doesn’t it?

Lindy Smith's cake on the front cover of Cake Craft and Decoration magazine

Sugarcraft Workshops – Autumn 2009

We’ve just launched our autumn workshop programme; details are on the classes page on our website. We hope you like our selection. I’m always being asked about covering ball cakes so I’ve added a new course to help you learn this useful skill. So how do you fancy joining me to create this Christmas bauble cake? I’m looking forward to it already!

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Cake jewellery – students work

Friday’s cake jewellery class was all about learning new jewellery cake techniques. It was the first time I’d taught this particular class, based on new jewellery techniques demonstrated in my cake jewellery gems dvd. So both the students and I were learning but as you can see from the photos below, they all did really well.

During the day we concentrated on creating abstract flowers and cake jewellery… Continue reading

Lindy Smith’s new DVDs now despatched

It’s been a huge task but we done it! – So thank you everyone who pitched in. So much paperwork to organise, DVDs to pack, sacks of parcels to fill etc. – A bit of a marathon but we’ve almost got to the end, as I write it’s just the despatch notes to send….

This means that my DVDs will start arriving through your letterboxes… Continue reading

video snippets: Lindy’s cake jewellery DVD

I’ve had some great feedback regards the wonky cake dvd snippets I uploaded yesterday, so thank you…..but there’s more….here is the taster for the cake jewellery DVD.  The running time of the dvd itself is 135 minutes on disc one plus extras of 24 minutes on disc two, this clip is only just over 7 minutes long so it only contains a very small fraction of the overall material… Continue reading

Lindy’s Cake decorating DVDs – The covers

I know some of you are eagerly waiting for my DVDs to arrive – not long to go now! They are currently in the process of being duplicated so I thought I’d treat you to a preview of the covers. I’m really pleased with them – hope you like them too.

Lindy's Wonky Celebration Cakes DVD

DVD release date – Early June

Not long to wait now! I know some of you are very eager to see the DVD’s so I’ll give you a realease date as soon as I can. A few of you have told us that you were a little disappointed to read in the Lindy’s Cakes May Newsletter yesterday that my DVDs will not be ready until June. However this is only a 2 week delay and… Continue reading

Cake jewellery DVD photoshoot

Yesterday I took the main cake jewellery cakes from my cake jewellery gems DVD  to be professionally photographed. It was such a lovely day that we decided to create a lifestyle shot of one of the cakes and enjoy the sunshine at the same time….lovely!  Getting set up always takes ages. Here is Vicki in action, ascertaining the best angle to shoot from.

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Raspberry – on trend new bullion wire

As followers of colour trends will know, mango and raspberry are one of this seasons colour combinations, so I was delighted today to find that our wholesaler has a new bullion wire colour called raspberry – what fun!

Raspberry Bullion Wire with fuchsia behind

Raspberry Bullion Wire with fuchsia behind