Royal icing is not a sugar medium I work with every day, but it is a form of icing that I have always loved using on my cakes. Royal icing is incredibly versatile and an excellent medium for adding decorative elements to cakes and decorated cookies, whether these be piped pearls, decorative scrolls or piped […]
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
Lindy Smith shares how to use cake stencils to decorate cakes and cookies – as seen on TV
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 […]
Front Cover Christmas tree cake – how to make
I was recently asked to contribute the Christmas cover cake design for a new Dutch cake magazine – Mjam Taart! My resulting Christmas tree cake is now in print and on the cover. Hoping you like it… Christmas tree cake I was really pleased with the cake itself, which is decorated using the Patchwork cutters […]