Our increasingly popular technique focus cake masterclass featured again this week with Lindy’s ‘Stencil Technique Workshop’. This type of class allows you to focus on one technique and spend a whole uninterrupted day practicing it… and we love it! This class is so much fun and produces fabulous results, this class has the ‘WOW’ factor! […]
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Introduction to Celebration Cakes 2: Sept 2011
Here we go again! Lindy’s ‘Introduction to Celebration Cakes’ workshop is so popular we decided we just had to run it again. Nine eager students, nine naked cakes ready for the Lindy Smith treatment! This is the most fabulous course for the beginner sugarcrafter. It is basic cake covering at it’s best, the humble beginnings […]
Lindy’s ‘contemporary cake decorating bible’ has ARRIVED!
It’s so exciting my ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ is here! It’s big, it’s heavy and it’s jammed packed full of techniques to try and ideas to inspire. Over the last couple of days, I’ve been receiving some lovely comments via our Facebook page, twitter, email etc so I thought I’d share a small selection with […]
Carving cakes successfully – 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 […]
What is Gum Arabic used for?
Gum Arabic, Gum tragacanth, CMC etc are all edible gums used in cake decorating. However, they all look very similar – white or off white powders sold in small plastic pots. Each gum has it’s own specific uses, which can lead to a little confusion. In this blog, I am going to talk about the […]
Amusing Pingu Cake Story – Competition Winner
Birthday cake, Pingu, edible food colour, small children, what could possibly go wrong…? The winner of our Creative Writing Competition – Amusing Cake Story, Tracy Tomlinson tells us We hope her story makes you laugh as much as we did! The Pingu Family Cake “It was coming up to Lloyd’s 3rd birthday and he didn’t […]