Not long now until my new book – ‘Creative colour for cake decorating‘ is published. I must admit to being very excited, I’ve loved creating this groundbreaking book, it’s been a lot of fun and of course a lot of hard work too! My publishers, David and Charles, are also thrilled and have put together […]
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Lindy's cake decorating books are both award winners and best-sellers. Delve into our book archive to discover behind the scenes snippets, detailed reviews plus news of awards and nominations. A Lindy Smith cake decorating book (Lindy has written 15) is a wonderfully colourful object to hold in your hands, it inspires and educates and may start you on a lifelong sugracraft journey - we do hope so!
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Lindy Smith launches ‘Decorar Pasteles’ her Spanish ‘cake decorating bible’ at the BCN and Cake fair in Barcelona
I’ve just returned from the very first ‘BCN and Cake‘ Fair in Barcelona. Cake decorating is a relatively new craft in Spain but judging by the crowds and long queues to get into the fair, I think is may be as popular right now as in many other countries in Europe. I was invited to […]
Step by step photography – Lindy’s ‘creative colour’ cake book photoshoot
I know from what my students and customers tell me that many of you don’t actually READ my books per se, you tend to look at the step by step pictures and revert to the text only when you want clarification!! This means that when I plan the step by step photography for my books […]
Lindy’s ‘creative colour’ book photoshoot – styled cakes on location
I love creating and writing cake books and even though I do months of work before a first photoshoot, a book doesn’t feel real until the camera shutter clicks and the first cakes are safely digitally stored on a server, as well as in cake boxes!! This has definitely been true for the book I […]
Lindy’s NEW cake bible book goes down a treat
I had a feeling that my new book ‘The contemporary cake decorating bible’ was going to prove popular with my students, fans and fellow cake decorators but nothing had prepared me for quite how popular it was to be at last weekends ‘Cake International 2011’ show at the NEC. I have never in my life […]
Lindy’s ‘contemporary cake decorating bible’ has ARRIVED!
It’s so exciting my ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ is here! It’s big, it’s heavy and it’s jammed packed full of techniques to try and ideas to inspire. Over the last couple of days, I’ve been receiving some lovely comments via our Facebook page, twitter, email etc so I thought I’d share a small selection with […]