In sugarcraft, painting with cocoa butter is a relatively new technique. It certainly wasn’t around when I wrote my best-selling ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ 10 years ago. However, I wish it had been! It’s a fabulous technique and for me, at least, it is now my favourite way of painting on cakes and cookies. I […]
FREE Tutorials
Lindy loves teaching and appearing on Facebook live, here she generously shares her knowledge and talent with you in her FREE tutorials. These are quick and informative 'how to' cake decorating lessons. They tell you many of the things you need to know as a cake decorator: How to make marbled paste? What is pastillage and how should you use it? Christmas cookie decorating ideas...etc
Edible wildflower meadow for Harry the hare – cake decorating tutorial
Harry the Hare in his edible wildflower meadow is a cake design that I am immensely pleased with. My original idea was to create an Easter bunny amongst grass searching for decorated Easter eggs. However, the timing wasn’t quite right. My cake was being published in a magazine just days before Easter and so I was asked […]
Ideas for using Mandala Stencils on cakes and bakes
I adore using pretty mandala stencils, they are so easy and effective to use, yet therapeutic at the same time. I believe I first became properly aware of mandala designs when I was researching my early doodle cakes. This discovery, I am sure, influenced me when I created my Colourful Mandala Cake Design Project for Cake Decoration […]
How to decorate Easter egg cookies using stencils
I love developing new decorating ideas…it’s very rewarding and satisfying. These particular Easter egg cookies were designed so they could be easily decorated by everyone, no matter what their skill level or age. ‘Have a go’ cookie decorating activity Last weekend I had the great privilege of being invited to run a ‘have a go’ table at […]
How to make unique sugar snowflakes using sugarcraft cutters
Creating unique sugar snowflakes is a wonderfully absorbing and fun activity for a winters afternoon. I love the way dreaming up new variations stretches my creativity and makes me think. After all, we’ve all been led to believe that every snowflake is different, each one a unique crystalline art form. To me, it seems only […]
Ideas for creating textures using sugarcraft cutters
“Ways of creating textures in sugarpaste please” is one of the most recent requests I have received from my students. There are, of course, countless ways to do this. I always like to throw something new into the mix, so decided to experiment using cutters and this blog is all about the 3-dimensional textures and […]