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Tips

Baking and cake decorating tips to help you achieve success with your baking and cake decorating. In this blog category, Lindy generously shares her knowledge to give you valuable tips and advice. We also suggest you browse our FAQ and FREE Tutorials categories to find further tips and suggestions.

How to cover a cake with sugarpaste

24th November 2020 by Lindy Smith Leave a Comment

how to cover a cake with sugarpaste

Would you like to be able to cover your Christmas cake in sugarpaste without tearing the icing or leaving bubbles under the paste? Would you like your cake to have a beautifully smooth, silky professional finish with nice sharp top edges? If so, I’ve made the perfect video for you….. Baking and covering introduction This […]

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Basics of baking: How to line a round cake tin

4th October 2020 by Lindy Smith 1 Comment

How to line a round cake tin

Are you struggling to line your round cake tins? My daughter Charlotte, tells me she can never remember how it’s done! If this is you too, let me demystify the art how to line a round cake tin. It’s not really as difficult or time-consuming as you may think. There are a number of approaches […]

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Tips for Tackling Shyness – Maybe cake decorating is the answer for you too!

2nd February 2018 by Lindy Smith

tackling shyness - try cake decorating

Have you spent your life tackling shyness? According to the BBC’s television programme ‘Stand up to Shyness‘ aired a few days ago, nearly half the population in the UK have some manifestation of shyness. Experts even suggest that everyone has a degree of shyness and that this is a good thing. For some, their shyness […]

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Tips on creating beautiful sugar embroidery patterns

17th March 2017 by Lindy Smith

Tips on making sugar embroidery on mini cakes

‘Tips for recreating your beautiful sugar embroidery patterns please’, is a request I have received a few times recently. Many people seems to love my ‘Fair Isle & Beyond’ set of mini cakes – they have even bought the embroidery grid embosser so they can have a go… BUT it seems some people get a […]

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Lindy Smith shares how to use cake stencils to decorate cakes and cookies – as seen on TV

11th March 2016 by Lindy Smith

How to use cake stencils - tips by Lindy Smith

I simply love using cake stencils on my cakes, so when asked to be a guest on the Cake Academy, a Create & Craft TV cake decorating programme, I could only say YES. Stencilling with coloured dust There are many different ways of using stencils to add pattern and decorations to cakes. Probably my favourite technique […]

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Is there a nut-free alternative to ground almonds that I can use in a cake recipe?

17th July 2014 by Lindy Smith

Nut-free alternatives to ground almonds when baking cakes - ideas and suggestions

Here at Lindy’s Cakes, we are asked questions all the time. Interestingly we receive many more questions about baking then we ever do about cake decorating!! Is there a nut-free alternative to ground almonds being one such question. Now I love baking and have been baking for as long as I can remember. However, I […]

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