The workshop team at Lindy’s Cakes all love Fridays, it’s our chance to have a little fun and to inspire our students to have as much pleasure from cake decorating as we do!! Yesterday was no exception, in fact it was one of my favourite classes – carving and decorating a handbag cake, also known […]
Archives for May 2011
Heavenly Ube Cake Recipe from the Philippines
We are delighted to share with you this winning ube cake recipe. The recipe is our winner of the ‘best cake recipe‘ category in our recent Lindy’s Cakes creative writing competition. The cake is not only unique but also very special to the winner, Cecille Leano Sia from Manila, Philippines. Read all about in her […]
Matriarch & vegetable inspires winning cake recipe
We are thrilled to bring you the second of our winners in our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. We loved this entry by Cecille Sia in the ‘Best Cake Recipe’ category. Cecille is one of our international cake friends and customer! She is from Manila in the Philippines, she grew up in the UK and says that her […]
Lindy’s Kissing Ball Cake Workshop May 2011
This was an eagerly anticipated workshop by Lindy and the workshop team, and we weren’t disappointed. The new Lindy Smith ‘Kissing Ball Cake’ workshop was an absolute joy! The ‘Kissing Ball Cake’ idea is based on the Victorian wedding tradition of hanging handmade balls of flowers in archways, doorways or outdoors. They were also carried […]
Celebration Cake Class May 2011
Our ‘Summer Workshops’ got off to a flying start on Friday with our constant favourite workshop ‘Introduction to Celebration Cakes’. This is the ultimate starting place for learning the basics of working with icing/sugarpaste. From the baking of the cake through to the adorning of a covered cake, Lindy leaves nothing to chance in helping […]
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 , […]