February 11, 2012

Sugarcraft Inspiration at Cake International 2011

The cake show at the NEC is always very busy, but this year I seemed to have less time than ever to see all the amazing cakes and sugarcraft creations and unfortunately only managed to have a really brief look at some of the tables. Here is a selection of what I saw, I hope you find them inspiring.

I love the colours used on this cake and the… Continue reading

Decorating cookies – Millie’s style

I saw a different form of cookie decorating last week – what would you create with soft cookie dough, piping consistency icing in 4 flavours (caramel, vanilla, chocolate and raspberry), smarties, marshmallows, glace cherries and sprinkles?? Any ideas?

I really enjoy decorating cookies, so when asked to be a ‘celebrity’ judge for the in house Millie’s Cookies ‘Ice off” competition, I thought why not, it could be interesting and… Continue reading

Folk Artist Julie Arkell inspires winning cake!

We are delighted to share with you the overall winning entry from our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. Lindy was very impressed with the presentation of Rhu Srand’s entry, the detail in the story, and how Rhu was inspired to create this beautiful, and different, cake.   We admired Rhu’s attention to detail eg: the stitching , the research that went into the design, the ‘tweeking’ of the cake recipe… Continue reading

Tate & Lyle Royal wedding baking competition

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

Write & Win: Winners Announced

We are delighted to announce the winners of our Write & Win: Creative Writing Competition…

 

Overall Winner:

Rhu Strand

Best Cake Recipe Category:

Winner: Cecille Sia

Runner-Up: Tracey

Book feedback Competition: Have your say!

Having  packed away the cameras, sent the text off to the publishers for editing and tidied away the cakes  it’s time to start planning afresh for the book that will come after the uber fabulous Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible, which by the way will be published at the end of September.

Lindy is, as always, full of ideas but  we’d like your input too!… Continue reading

Ideal cake decorator of the year 2011 competition

We’ve just heard about this fabulous new cake decorating competition and thought that some of you may be interested:

Ideal Home Show seeks Sweet Inspiration with the launch of the first ‘Ideal Cake Decorator of the Year’ competition

This year, the Ideal Home Show is celebrating the return of cake decorating… Continue reading

Write and Win! Creative writing competition

It’s not all about cakes at Lindy HQ! Creative writing is a big part of working life at Lindy’s Cakes – it’s how we communicate with our customers, cake friends and Lindy fans.

Through mediums such as Twitter, Facebook, Newsletters and our Blog we are able to share with you, often in  ‘real time’, what we’re up to. … Continue reading

More inspirational sugar creations

Cake International is a wonderful showcase for  sugarcraft talent from both the Uk and around the world. This year saw a staggering amount of entries in each class, for example the wedding cake class had 50 cakes entered! I am always so busy that it is never possible to see all the entries  but here are a few more that appealed to me (see yestursdays post

Sugarcraft inspirations at the NEC

I never have much spare time at Cake International,  as I’m  needed on my trade stand most of the time, however whenever I do escape I head straight to the competition area – there are always so many lovely competition peices to see. I never manage to see them all but here are a selection of some of the cakes and sugarcraft pieces that appealed to me… Continue reading

Winners Announced!

Thankyou to everyone who entered our ‘Cupcake’ creative writing competition to co-incide with the publication of Lindy’s cupcake book  ‘bake me I’m yours…cupcake celebration’


We loved reading all of the entries.  Lindy has chosen 10 winners

Win Cupcake Cases!

We’ve had some wonderful feedback from you via facebook on Lindy’s new cupcake book.

bake me I’m yours…cupcake celebration.

We’ve popped some of these comments on our blog but because we know that our facebook audience and our blog audience are not necessarily the same, and vice-versa, we thought we’d give you all… Continue reading

Competition…

And the winner is….

LISA BROWN from BARROW-IN-FURNESS

Congatulations Lisa – well done!

We had a fantastic selection of emails. It was wonderful to read about your work, inspirations and ideas . It’s what Lindy’s Cakes is all about. Thank you so much to everyone for taking the time to enter this competition. Watch out for more competitions in 2010…who know’s next time the… Continue reading

It’s Competition Time!

Step right up… it’s competiton time at Lindy’s Cakes!

Here’s your chance to win a £15.00 voucher to spend in our on-line shop

It’s easy peasy lemon squeezy!! Just describe what Lindy and her work means to you, and what you think Lindy’s Cakes Ltd does.  In as many or as little words as you… Continue reading

Competition to find cake DVD Titles

Are you good at thinking up catchy phrases or titles? If so I need your help! As you may be aware I’m currently putting together a couple of cake decorating DVDs – filming is at the end of the month, the cakes are near completion – but I have no inspiring titles……Do you have any suggestions?