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Passionate about being creative and love sugarcraft? You are absolutely in the right place!
Discover posts to inspire and excite you... News, insights, sneaky peaks from behind the scenes, delicious tried and tested cake recipes, cake decorating video tutorials etc... Lindy also regularity shares her thoughts, ideas and knowledge with you, exploring topics such as success and creativity. What will you discover?

Spiced orange cookie recipe from bake ame I'm yours cookie by Lindy Smith

Spiced Orange Cookie Recipe

By Lindy Smith | 5th September 2009 | 5 Comments

At the recent cake decorators seminar in Sydney, I demonstrated how to decorate a selection of my cookie designs. This relatively new idea to Australian’s seems to have gone down a treat. Due to multiple requests for a good recipe, below you will find my favourite spiced orange cookie recipe from my ‘Bake me I’m […]

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Lindy’s Book Signing in Brisbane

By Lindy Smith | 5th September 2009 | 3 Comments

If you’ve been following me on Twitter you’ll know that I’m now in Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. Today was my first official appointment here, a book signing at Kitchenware Plus – a fabulous kitchenware store on the Pacific Highway at Loganholme. I spent a delightful morning talking to a variety of their customers, who […]

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Aussie Tweets – Week 2009-08-30

By Lindy Smith | 30th August 2009 | Comments Off on Aussie Tweets – Week 2009-08-30

Did you know sugarpaste originated in Australia? I’m told that it’s popularity was spread by the Country Women’s Association in the 1950’s # If you are in Sydney and you’d like to see me dem my op art cake tomorrow evening, please contact Iced Affair My students created some fantastic cat cakes today. None had […]

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Cakes in Australia – first impressions

By Lindy Smith | 30th August 2009 | 7 Comments

Wow, I’ve learnt so much since I’ve been here in Sydney on my Australian cake adventure. The seminar has whizzed past…… I’ve met lots of amazing people, seen some incredibly detailed cakes, found out about how cakes are created here and sampled the most popular flavours. Did you know that sugarpaste has its origins here […]

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Aussie Tweets – Week 2009-08-23

By Lindy Smith | 23rd August 2009 | Comments Off on Aussie Tweets – Week 2009-08-23

Saw Planet Cake dem how to create a Mad Hatter cake – fascinating and different to my approach to Wonky’s, think I’ll stick to my own way! # Just returned from the official opening of the Australian cake seminar here in Sydney, I feel so privileged to have been invited. # Spend day sightseeing in […]

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Lindy in Australia – settling in

By Lindy Smith | 22nd August 2009 | Comments Off on Lindy in Australia – settling in

Jet lag…I do dislike this woozy feeling.  I guess its just not natural to try and change my body clock so drastically so quickly! Well as you can probably tell, I’ve arrived and I’m on the internet! I had to wait until 10 am this morning for the shops to open, a long wait when I […]

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Lindy’s front cover jewellery cake

By Lindy Smith | 18th August 2009 | 4 Comments

I heard on the grapevine last week that my Pink Fizz cake jewellery cake was on the cover of Cake Craft and Decoration magazine this month, still not received my copy but I can confirm that it is on the cover – Looks great doesn’t it? I have written a step by step, Fun with […]

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Lindy’s Australian Cake Adventure

By Lindy Smith | 17th August 2009 | 1 Comment

My Australian cake adventure is about to start! I’m packed and ready to go. I’m visiting three cities, demonstrating and teaching in five venues and covering twelve different topics. It’s a big trip! All the months of organising are now over and I’m off tomorrow on the first leg, arriving in Sydney on Friday Evening. […]

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Lindy’s dragon cake in iconic cake final!

By Lindy Smith | 31st July 2009 | 4 Comments

Cakes and Sugarcraft Magazine have just published the FIVE cake finalists in their 100 iconic cakes series and I am honoured that you, the voting public, have chosen my dragon cake as one of these finalists! My dragon was originally created as a competition piece for a salon culinaire competition – at the time he won […]

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How to change cake recipe quantities by Lindy Smith

How do I change cake recipe quantities?

By Lindy Smith | 27th July 2009 | 280 Comments

I keep being asked how to adapt or scale a cake recipe quantities to bake a larger or smaller cake. It’s not difficult and instructions are given in some of my cake decorating books! Below, however, is the chart you will need if you are up for the maths! If not see my alternative approach […]

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