The festive season is almost here again, so it’s time to bake, marzipan and cover our fruit cakes. Like all fashions, fashions in cake change. The current trend is bake and stack two smaller cakes to give a taller double-height finish. In this blog, I cover the basics of how to marzipan these double-height staked […]
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International guest at KUCHENLIEBE (Cake Love) Exhibition, Germany – My Experience
Being in Germany in the run-up to Christmas is, I think, the best time to visit, so I was thrilled to be asked to be part of the Kuchenliebe exhibition in Bremen last month. The exhibition was being held in the Ova Arena, across a rather windy concourse behind Bremen railway station. Once inside, and […]
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 […]
Lindy’s magical experience – Demonstrating cake decorating at Windsor Castle’s festival weekend
Windsor Castle is the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world and has to be the most fabulous venue where I’ve ever worked. I was thrilled to be asked and felt really privileged to be given this opportunity to work in such a stunning and historic setting. I had an amazing time over the […]
Bake yourself a very merry Christmas – Lindy’s Christmas pudding cookies feature on magazine cover
Christmas pudding cookies, what a wonderfully festive sweet treat. Every Christmas I bake and decorate cookies in all shapes and sizes. So imagine my delight when I discovered the Christmas pudding cookies I’d baked and decorated for the November issue of Cake Decoration and Sugarcraft Magazine, on the front cover. Not only are my cookies on […]
Lindy’s cracker cookie features in new magazine: Love Baking
We are thrilled to see Lindy’s work featured in a new glossy magazine called Love Baking Cupcakes and Sweet Treats. On the cover of issue 1, you will see Lindy’s Stencilled cupcakes. Dive inside and Lindy’s work features on page 41 with a step by step stencilling tutorial featuring Lindy’s stencilled cupcakes from her ‘Contemporary […]