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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?

Summer cookies workshop

By Lindy Smith | 13th July 2009 | 7 Comments

Decorating cookies is always so much fun and Friday’s class was no exception.  “I could do this all day everyday” was one students comment! The cookies that we decorated were all inspired by summer so first up was a pair of flip flops – there are so many possibilities with these, but as this was […]

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Cheeky chimp – novelty cake class

By Lindy Smith | 7th July 2009 | 1 Comment

Well I think a very enjoyable day was had by all on Friday’s cheeky chimp cake carving workshop.  I certainly enjoyed helping all the students achieve a cake that they were proud to take home. The class was to introduce the students to the art of carving cake, something that many feel frightened of even […]

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Sugarcraft Workshops – Autumn 2009

By Lindy Smith | 26th June 2009 | 3 Comments

We’ve just launched our autumn workshop programme; details are on the classes page on our website. We hope you like our selection. I’m always being asked about covering ball cakes so I’ve added a new course to help you learn this useful skill. So how do you fancy joining me to create this Christmas bauble […]

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Chocolate mud cake recipe

By Lindy Smith | 22nd June 2009 | 131 Comments

Ummm who can resist a really good, moist chocolate cake? I’ve been experimenting with the Australian wedding favourite – mud cake. As many of you may know I am demonstrating at the National Cake Seminar in Sydney in August, so I thought a little background research would be good….. a great excuse to eat lots […]

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Beginners cake decorating workshop

By Lindy Smith | 15th June 2009 | 8 Comments

Friday’s introduction to celebration cakes workshop was a great success -“I’ve had the best time ever”, “I’ve absolutely loved it”, “I’ve learnt so much” were just some of the comments from the students as they departed. For most students, covering and decorating a cake was a completely new experience, so they had a lot to […]

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Cake jewellery – students work

By Lindy Smith | 10th June 2009 | 2 Comments

Friday’s cake jewellery class was all about learning new jewellery cake techniques. It was the first time I’d taught this particular class, based on new jewellery techniques demonstrated in my cake jewellery gems dvd. So both the students and I were learning but as you can see from the photos below, they all did really well. […]

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video snippets: Lindy’s cake jewellery DVD

By Lindy Smith | 2nd June 2009 | 2 Comments

I’ve had some great feedback regards the wonky cake dvd snippets I uploaded yesterday, so thank you…..but there’s more….here is the taster for the cake jewellery DVD.  The running time of the dvd itself is 135 minutes on disc one plus extras of 24 minutes on disc two, this clip is only just over 7 minutes […]

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Video snippets of Lindy’s Wonky cake DVD

By Lindy Smith | 1st June 2009 | 9 Comments

Well we’re almost there! We’ve just set the release date for the DVDs  – it’s next Monday (8th June) All the pre-ordered DVDs will be sent out on a strictly first come first sent basic, so please be patient with us as its going to take us a few days!!!! However in the meantime we […]

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Wonky cake class – Students work

By Lindy Smith | 26th May 2009 | 8 Comments

“A wonderful bunch of students” was the phrase that Jane, Sally and I felt best described our students on last Friday’s wonky cake course. I was feeling shattered after my full on week  working on my DVDs, but these students were a joy to teach. So thank you everyone who attended. Many of you thought […]

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How do I make stencils fit my cake?

By Lindy Smith | 20th May 2009 | 11 Comments

I love using cake decorating stencils they are so quick and easy to use. I first came across culinary stencils in Florida last year at the ICES convention, I saw them being demonstrated and I’ve been hooked ever since. The easiest way to use stencils is on a flat surface, however, once you have practised a […]

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