This cake truly deserves a much more glamorous name. I have been baking it since my mother taught me the recipe in the 1980s, an eager teenage cook desperate to emulate my mother’s glorious creations! It has a certain nostalgia in our family appearing at all birthdays and special events through the decades to this […]
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 […]
Cat Novelty Cake Workshop
‘This is the perfect day out’ remarked a student on this ever popular novelty cake course. The cat cake is an excellent course for the beginner to intermediate sugarcrafter. Lindy got things started by getting the students to cover their cake boards. The ladies used lovely shades of pinks & purples, the perfect background for a […]
Whale Novelty Cake Workshop taught by Lindy Smith
Today I had a day off work to attend one of Lindy’s courses, today I made a whale cake, today I got totally hooked on sugarcrafting, today it all made sense! There’s no going back! Having said to Lindy that even if my whale turned out like a blue blob my little boys would love it, […]
Beginners Celebration Cakes Class
Eight keen students embarked on their introduction to celebration cakes workshop and eight fabulous cakes were created! Lindy got things underway by introducing the students to sugarpaste. She did a taste test of four different makes of sugarpastes to show how they can differ and to see which one the ladies liked the best. She then moved […]
Designer Wedding Cookies Class
‘I haven’t had this much fun in ages’ was one of the comments from a student at Lindy’s Designer Wedding Cookie Class on Friday. I absolutely agree! There was a real buzz amongst the students, it was a stunning day which always gets everyone off to a great start, and the excitement and anticipation were […]