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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?

Wonky cake class – students at work

By Lindy Smith | 25th April 2009 | 25 Comments

My wonky style cake classes have always been very popular; they are also ones of my favourite classes to teach. Students arrive not really knowing what to expect and go home having learnt not only how to carve and cover my signature style cakes but also armed with lots of tips and ideas to  help […]

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Tips for using sugarcraft cutters by cake decorating expert Lindy Smith

Tips for using Lindy’s sugarcraft cutters

By Lindy Smith | 19th April 2009 | 60 Comments

I know many of you enjoy using my stainless steel sugarcraft cutters, however, if you are a little unsure on the best way to achieve perfect results each time then here are a few tips that you may find useful. The pastes to use when cutting out shapes Only use modelling paste, pastillage or flower […]

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Sugarpaste recipe - make your own paste

How do I make Sugarpaste?

By Lindy Smith | 18th April 2009 | 278 Comments

“Lindy, do you have a sugarpaste recipe?” This is a question I am always being asked by my students. Sugarpaste also referred to as rolled fondant or ready roll icing, is available from supermarkets and cake decorating suppliers in many countries of the world. However, not everyone likes what is available to them and many countries […]

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Cake jewellery DVD – Rough Cut

By Lindy Smith | 17th April 2009 | Comments Off on Cake jewellery DVD – Rough Cut

How exciting – I’ve just seen the rough cut of my cake jewellery DVD! The film company say it’s   “…..a bit like offering a taste of a cake before its even half cooked” but who doesn’t like raw cake mixture?  I certainly have enjoyed seeing the ‘half baked’ DVD – just me in action, no […]

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Pre-Order Lindy’s Cake DVD’s today!

By Lindy Smith | 16th April 2009 | 2 Comments

I’m very pleased to announce that both my wonky cake and cake jewellery DVD’s are now available to pre-order.  As regular readers of this blog will know, filming was very successful, see previous posts for details. I’m now told by the production company that the 19 hours of tape that the 3 camera shot has […]

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Bake me I'm yours... gingerbread recipe and decorating tips

Gingerbread recipe plus Lindy’s decorating tips

By Lindy Smith | 15th April 2009 | 10 Comments

From all the fabulous comments and feedback I have received, I know many of you are really enjoying my ‘bake me I’m yours…cookie‘ book. It is a book I loved creating and I’ve still got the cookie decorating bug! Read on for my gingerbread recipe plus decorating tips to help you surprise and delight your […]

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How do I get my sugar shaper to work?

By Lindy Smith | 14th April 2009 | 9 Comments

Sugar shapers or clay guns, craft guns, sugarcraft extruders as they are also know are one of my favourite sugarcraft – cake decorating tools, one that I really wouldn’t like to be without! I use mine to add trim around the base of a cake, add fine details to a side of a cake where […]

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Lindy’s cakes in Australian Bookazine

By Lindy Smith | 13th April 2009 | Comments Off on Lindy’s cakes in Australian Bookazine

I have recently discovered that my ‘Storybook Cakes’ book has become a bookazine in Australia!  Basically, a bookazine is a book/part of a book in magazine format.  From what I understand Storybook Cakes has been used as the content of a bookazine published by Derwent Media called ‘Novelty Cakes’ and is currently on sale in […]

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Spring Cookie Decorating Class

By Lindy Smith | 6th April 2009 | 4 Comments

Decorated cookies – what a great alternative to traditional Easter eggs, I’m sure the family and friends of Fridays students will be suitably impressed. Many students were completely new to sugarcraft so I think you’ll agree they did really well. We even had two ladies fly over from Majorca especially for the class!! – It never […]

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DVD Filming – Day Three – The Extras

By Lindy Smith | 5th April 2009 | Comments Off on DVD Filming – Day Three – The Extras

Cake DVD filming – day three – this was my favourite day because at long last I had the time to sit back and watch the crew at work, to appreciate their skills and learn more about what they actually do. The day started with Tammy from Magic Dust wedding planning, asking me cake questions […]

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