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… 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

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

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

If there is one cake that epitomises Lindy’s work it has to be the Wonky Cake.  Which might just explain why this course is so popular and gets booked up faster than any other course.  It’s a fascinating course to observe. The pace is fast because there is a lot to get through in one workshop day. Oh and the process is very very clever.  You need a lot of… Continue reading

Good things come in small packages… this is how I feel about the Christmas Mini Cake workshop! What a treat… what a fabulous idea. And, as per usual, they are amazing in true ‘Lindy Smith’ style. Continuing our Christmas workshop theme, these little beauties did not dissappoint. It was a bitterly cold day but we were cosily tucked up inside our wonderful village hall which was bursting with a festive… 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