It’s now late October 2023. Lindy and I (Paul) have been providing cake design classes on cruise ships for about four months this year and we are about to make it five. Is this the life I wanted when I retired? I didn’t know it but YES definitely! This cruise is from Southampton to Dubai […]
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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 […]
Traditional Christmas carol inspires Lindy’s colourful Christmas cake design
Shush…don’t tell anyone…. but there are less than 4 weeks until Christmas! Now I love Christmas, I love the excitement of my young nieces and nephews, I’m very partial to a glass or two of spiced mulled wine and I adore the woody pine scent of a freshly cut and decorated Christmas tree. What I […]
Colourful Mandala Cake Design Project for Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft Magazine
I loved creating the colourful Mandala cake design that appears on the cover of the current issue of Cake Decoration & Sugarcraft magazine. I was absolutely thrilled to be asked to create this cake for the magazines special ‘colour issue’. As many of you will know, colour is my trademark. I love working and experimenting with […]
Cake Design – a beautiful transient art form
Cake design, an art form? I hear your question…REALLY! Well yes, beautiful, designed and decorated cakes come into existence using the same design processes and considerations as, say, the latest collections on the London or Paris catwalks. I am a cake designer and for me, cake is my canvas and sugar my medium. I have […]
Carved Handbag cake by Lindy Smith is featured as an exquisite gift for Valentines day in the Portuguese cake design magazine
Did you receive a Valentines gift this year? I hope you did, it’s very always exciting receiving gifts especially when they are from someone special. On February 14th this year I did receive a gift – a surprise parcel from Portugal, the latest Faça Fácil Cake design Decoração de bolos cake magazine! The sugar pirate […]