It feels good to be creating and writing for The Cake Decoration and Sugarcraft magazine again. My first project, this time around, falls under the heading of ‘Quintessential British summer’. Now, I could have easily chosen rural thatched cottages, cream teas, majestic oak trees in country parks, red letterboxes etc but I decided to opt […]
Cake Inspirations
Cake Decorating Escapism in Lockdown… it works!
Love your latest book It’s always good to receive positive feedback about a project I’ve worked on, especially when that project has taken over a year to create. Writing a book is a very solitary occupation and it’s not until it’s out in the world that reactions start to slowly filter through. I am always […]
Twelve festive cake and cookie decorating ideas from sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith
Don’t you just love Christmas? Once the shopping is out of the way you get to indulge your sweet tooth without any guilt, and can treat your friends and family to an array of incredible treats. This month I’ve pored through a few of Lindy’s amazing books and selected some cakes and cookies to give […]
A Christmas bauble cake class – a seasonal twist on a ball cake
Lindy’s Christmas Bauble cake workshop marks the start of Christmas time at Lindy’s Cakes. Let the celebrations commence. I think it worth celebrating the fact that you can cover a ball shape in sugarpaste… it gets me every time! Students from far and wide On this snowy wintery day, we gather for a day or […]
New students, new term, new cakes, new colours
As the new ‘school’ term gets underway in the UK so does a new collection of Lindy Smith sugarcraft workshops. In these times of austerity and the ‘make do and mend’ reminders everywhere it certainly does seem that people are tapping into their creative side and choosing to go ‘hand made’ over ‘bought’. I’ve written […]
Lindy’s ‘creative colour’ book photoshoot – styled cakes on location
I love creating and writing cake books and even though I do months of work before a first photoshoot, a book doesn’t feel real until the camera shutter clicks and the first cakes are safely digitally stored on a server, as well as in cake boxes!! This has definitely been true for the book I […]