On a recent trip to my parent’s home in Taupo, New Zealand, my mother took me to the most wonderful market. The Taupo Riverside Market is a weekly market held every Saturday morning. With a focus on bread, arts and crafts, free-range eggs, baking, second-hand goods, Murray’s second-hand books, clothing, carvings, Hugh’s handmade furniture, honey, […]
Cake Inspirations
We all need inspiration to be creative and to quote Albert Einstein:
"Creativity is contagious pass it on!"
We certainly love passing on our ideas. We hope this selection of posts inspires you to try something new or gives you the inspiration or courage to get started. Posts are from Lindy and her team and cover a wealth of topics and ideas.
Cookie pops or biscuits on sticks – what fun!!!
I’ve made cookies on sticks on many occasions as children, particularly, seem to adore the novelty value of eating a cookie as if it was a lollipop! In my very popular ‘bake me I’m yours…cookie‘ book I included two examples, with my favourite being my ‘up, up and away’ ballooon cookies – so easy to […]
Opalescent colour palette for mini cakes
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment” is a quote from Claude Monet, the founder of French impressionist painting…And yesterday I had to agree with him! I am sure many of you know that I love to use colour on my cakes and I like to try new combinations to see what I can […]
Matriarch & vegetable inspires winning cake recipe
We are thrilled to bring you the second of our winners in our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. We loved this entry by Cecille Sia in the ‘Best Cake Recipe’ category. Cecille is one of our international cake friends and customer! She is from Manila in the Philippines, she grew up in the UK and says that her […]
Folk Artist Julie Arkell inspires winning cake!
We are delighted to share with you the overall winning entry from our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. Lindy was very impressed with the presentation of Rhu Srand’s entry, the detail in the story, and how Rhu was inspired to create this beautiful, and different, cake. We admired Rhu’s attention to detail eg: the stitching , […]
Royal wedding, sugar inspirations @ Squires
I’ve just returned from a lovely day spent looking around the 25th Squires Cake Decorating, Chocolate and Sugarcraft Exhibition, Farnham, Surrey. It was wonderful to meet up with so many cake friends and such a treat for me to be a visitor rather than a trader/demonstrator!!! Unsurprisingly, there was a definite royal theme to some […]