Do you, like me, have teenagers in the house? Are you always hearing the phrase “is there anything to eat?” If so I may have a solution – Mary Berry’s Muesli Cookies from her Ultimate Cake Book. This muesli cookie recipe is the one I use if there just isn’t “anything to eat”. These cookies […]
Recipes to Bake and Make
Bake: Some of our favourite tried and tested cake and cookie recipes, generously shared, for you to bake and enjoy. Recipes include Lindy's famous chocolate fudge cake and her fail safe madeira cake.
Make: Sugarcraft recipes to make essential cake decorating ingredients, including sugarpaste, modelling paste, flower paste and chocolate ganache.
Olive’s Fabulous Flapjack Recipe
This is a tried and tested recipe at Lindy’s HQ. We all love our accounts lady Olive’s fabulous flapjack. It is oatylicious, not too sweet and have just the right amount of chew! Olive likes to adorn hers with a decadent topping of dark chocolate, but these flapjacks are just as delicious naked! Or, if you […]
Lindy’s passion fruit cupcake recipe to bake, decorate and enjoy
I recently discovered a passion fruit cupcake recipe, one I picked up in a supermarket on a trip to Singapore. I have always adored passion fruit, such a fabulous flavour, so exotic and tangy, so I knew I simply had to bake this recipe. It was a big success, so I’m sharing this delightful recipe, […]
Chocolate and Raspberry Cake Recipe
Some taste combinations work beautifully together and one of my current favourites is chocolate and raspberry. These two ingredients not only look fantastic together, but complement each other extremely well, as the tartness of the raspberries is balanced by the sweetness of the chocolate. This year, the raspberries at the bottom of my garden are […]
Making metallic edible glitter – a recipe:
Is your glitter edible? I am a little concerned that many people are unknowingly adding non-toxic glitters to their cake and cupcakes, in the mistaken belief that they are edible. These glitters are often sold alongside edible products but are intended for decoration purposes only – to be used on items that are removed not […]
Bake a Chocolate & Guinness Cake for Morning Coffee!
Morning tea or coffee is a very important part of a Lindy Smith workshop. Our expert assistant Sally is well known in our student circles for her baking – her Lemon Drizzle cake is divine. But today we were treated to the most glorious cake, it wasn’t baked by Sally… oh no…she is on vacation, […]