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Sugar Recipes

Learn how to make edible gelatin baubles

26th April 2017 by Lindy Smith

edible gelatin bauble tutorial

Edible gelatin baubles, or bubbles if you prefer, are a really effective eye-catching cake decoration. I know this as whenever I decorate a cake with these baubles, everyone seems totally fascinated by them. The visiting crowds of cake decorators at last weekend’s Cake International show at Alexandra Palace in London were no exception, they seemed equally enthralled by […]

Filed Under: Cake Shows & Events, FREE Tutorials, Sugar Recipes Tagged With: gelatin baubles, gelatin bubbles, how to recipe

The best chocolate drip recipe for decorating cakes

24th March 2017 by Lindy Smith

The best chocolate drip recipe by Lindy Smith

I am sure you will agree,  there is something quite irresistible about cakes that have chocolate dripping down their sides. They look simply delicious! Now maybe this is because I’m a bit of a chocolate fiend but all I want to do is to take a fork and dive in!  Chocolate drip cakes over the last […]

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How and when should you use pastillage and what is the recipe?

18th February 2017 by Lindy Smith

how and when to use pastillage

Have you heard of Pastillage? When talking to my students in class, or engaging in conversations with enthusiastic cake decorators on social media, I often find either no one has heard of it or that they have, but they think it’s a paste that’s bit perplexing. The questions I’m often asked include: What is pastillage? How and […]

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How to make white chocolate mirror glaze marbled patterns to decorate your cakes

16th January 2017 by Lindy Smith

White chocolate mirror glaze recipe by Lindy Smith

White chocolate mirror glaze or “glaçage miroir” is a technique for decorating cakes that right now is becoming increasingly popular. I guess this isn’t surprising, the marble patterns created are very varied, colourful and quite beautiful. This is not a new technique but it is one that until yesterday I had not tried. I was […]

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Inspiring Sugar Flowers: Lindy’s Flower Paste Recipe

22nd May 2012 by Lindy Smith

Lindy's vivid Perfect Poppies Cake shows the beauty of using flower paste

Flowers are nature’s crafted perfection – the way the petals form and fall, their inherent sculpture and their simple yet stunning beauty.  Flowers symbolise feelings and emotions and give us a unique way of being able to say just what we mean.  Roses have been offered as a token of love, lilies to mean purity, […]

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Lindy’s Gorgeous Chocolate Ganache Recipe

8th May 2012 by Lindy Smith

Recently I blogged about my Chocolate and Red Wine cupcakes – a true wonder food if ever there was one!  I topped those divine little creations with my yummy-scrummy-in-my-tummy chocolate ganache that I have used many times before, on my sublime Animal Print cupcakes or these elegant Zen Garden cupcakes, for example. Really – the […]

Filed Under: Sugar Recipes Tagged With: chocolate cake, chocolate ganache recipe, chocolate lovers, cupcake topping, easy cake decorating

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