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 familliar 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

Summertime and the livin is easy….. what a way to spend a day… creating bright summer inspired cookies. These small intricately designed cookies are are huge hit at Lindy’s cakes and judging by the response you have told us about, what your friends & family say, they’re a hit at home too.  What I love about our cookie courses is that you can arrive at our workshops with little or… Continue reading

We are always interested, and intrigued, as to what our workshop students do with the skills they take away with them after a Lindy’s course.  We get to know our students quite well, especially the ones that are ‘ frequent workshoppers’!   Let me introduce you to Sarah Dawson. Sarah is a regular student of ours, she also runs a super cake company called ‘Cake & Eat it’ in Oxfordshire… Continue reading

We sure do know that the wedding season is upon us when nearly all of our students are making cookies for weddings this summer!  Wedding cookies are becoming the favour of choice at the chicest of weddings and Lindy’s Designer Wedding cookies are no exception. This is a fantastic course for all levels of sugarcrafter. Not only do you get to decorate a lot of cookies you will experiment with… Continue reading

We are always being asked for a good recipe to use when decorating cookies, so here is one of Lindy’s favourites. It’s from Lindy’s “Bake me I’m yours…cookie” book, enjoy!

75g (3oz) butter, diced
1 small egg, beaten
275g (10oz) plain flour, sifted
30ml (2 tbsp) golden syrup
5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
100g (3½oz) caster sugar
2.5ml (½ tsp) vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 170ºC/… Continue reading

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,

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

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

Deck the halls with boughs of holly… Christmas time has arrived at Lindy’s Cakes as we kick off the festive season with the first of our collection of Christmas workshops.  Cookies, everyone loves a cookie, but these Christmas Tree Cookies are in a class of their own. It could not have been a more Christmassy scene today… picture this… a village hall in the heart of the chilterns, the smell… Continue reading