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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.

Lindy Smith gives baking and cake decorating tips on BBC Radio Wiltshire

6th November 2013 by Lindy Smith

lindy's baking and cake decorating tips BBC radio Wiltshire

This morning I had the great privilege of speaking to Ben Prater on BBC Radio Wiltshire’s Breakfast programme. The radio station is helping to promote the Great Burbage Cake Off event, this coming Sunday. The event is in aid of Children in Need, and they contacted me for some baking and cake decorating tips. The […]

Filed Under: In the Media, Tips Tagged With: baking tips, BBC radio, cake decorating tips

Carving cakes successfully – a few tips from Lindy

12th August 2011 by Lindy Smith

carving cakes - a few tips from Lindy

Having a cake of the correct shape is fundamental to any good cake design. If, like some, you shy away from carving cakes you are limiting yourself to just basic shapes. Yet with a little bit of courage and armed with a sharp knife, it is perfectly possible to sculpt a shape from a cake […]

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: cake, carving, sculpting, Tips

Sugarpaste and Fondant are they the same?

3rd March 2011 by Lindy Smith

sugarpaste and fondant are they the same thing

I find that many newbie cake decorators become easily confused with all the different names given to the soft roll out icing that we use these days to cover most of our cakes. However, basically yes, sugarpaste is the term most widely used in the UK  for this soft icing and the term fondant when […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Tips Tagged With: covering paste, fondant, icing, Pettinice, Plastic icing, ready to roll, Regal Ice, roll out icing, rolled fondant, RTR, Satin Ice, sugarpaste

Baking The Perfect Madeira Cake

17th December 2009 by Lindys Team

baking the perfect madeira cake - Lindy Smith's tips

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 […]

Filed Under: Recipes to Bake, Tips Tagged With: baking, cake, Lindy Smith, Madeira, oven temperatures

How do I change cake recipe quantities?

27th July 2009 by Lindy Smith

How to change cake recipe quantities by Lindy Smith

I keep being asked how to adapt or scale a cake recipe quantities to bake a larger or smaller cake. It’s not difficult and instructions are given in some of my cake decorating books! Below, however, is the chart you will need if you are up for the maths! If not see my alternative approach […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Tips Tagged With: baking cakes, baking tips, recipe quantities, scaling cake recipes

Tips for Baking Mini Fruit Cakes

19th May 2009 by Lindy Smith

Tips for baking mini fruit cakes by Lindy Smith

Contrary to popular opinion, many people do like fruit cake and it’s not just the older generation. Fruit cake is one of my favourite cakes, as it is my 14-year-old sons! The secret, I think, is to have a really good recipe – try the one in my ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ book, it often […]

Filed Under: FAQ, Tips Tagged With: baking, fruit cake, mini cakes

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