Here at Lindy’s Cakes we are always being asked for a the best recipe to use when decorating cookies, we use a few, but I think the winner has to be my vanilla cookie recipe. It not only tastes good and keeps well, it doesn’t spread to much when baking – a very important factor […]
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.
Delicious Kiwi Carrot Cake Recipe
What could be nicer than a slice of spicy, moist carrot cake, with the added crunch of walnuts? One of my favourites especially when the cake is topped with cream cheese icing. YUM YUM! Over the years, we’ve shared many recipes with you here at Lindy’s Cakes. This particular carrot cake recipe is an all-time […]
Sally’s Workshop Lemon Cake
If you haven’t been to one of our workshops you won’t have sampled Sally’s wonderful Lemon Drizzle Cake which she sometimes brings along with her. Students have requested the recipe so here it is. Ingredients 4oz (100g) Soft Margarine 6oz (175g) Caster Sugar 6oz (175g) Self-raising Flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 eggs 4 Tablespoons […]
Baking The Perfect Madeira Cake
After many requests from our workshop students, I am posting the Perfect Madeira Cake blog. Good luck and hope this helps you. Before working at Lindy’s I had never made a Madeira cake. My first attempts weren’t great – they came out of the oven domed, very crispy on the outside and really dry. I […]
Kiwi Rachel’s Quick Chocolate Cake!
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 […]
Spiced Orange Cookie Recipe
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 […]