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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How to paint with cocoa butter – a beginners guide
In sugarcraft, painting with cocoa butter is a relatively new technique. It certainly wasn’t around when I wrote my best-selling ‘Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible’ 10 years ago. However, I wish it had been! It’s a fabulous technique and for me, at least, it is now my favourite way of painting on cakes and cookies. I […]
Ideas for using Mandala Stencils on cakes and bakes
I adore using pretty mandala stencils, they are so easy and effective to use, yet therapeutic at the same time. I believe I first became properly aware of mandala designs when I was researching my early doodle cakes. This discovery, I am sure, influenced me when I created my Colourful Mandala Cake Design Project for Cake Decoration […]
How to use a sugar shaper – sugarcraft gun
A sugar shaper, sugarcraft gun, sugar extruder, clay gun…is a wonderfully clever cake decorating tool known by many different names. It is a tool I wouldn’t be without! It’s part of my essential cake decorating kit. I have had one ever since I started decorating 25 years ago and now I have three. Why? Well […]
How to make ombre sugar ruffles for fashion-forward flamboyant cakes
Ombre sugar ruffles, so pretty! I loved creating these for the ‘Sweetheart Stripe’ wedding cake below – you’ll now find the cake in my ‘Simply Modern Wedding Cakes‘ book. It was such fun experimenting with all my cutters to find which ones worked, which didn’t and which I liked the most. The winner was definitely […]
Wedding Cakes Magazine review Lindy Smith’s NEW book ‘Simply Modern Wedding Cakes’
A book is never easy to write, it takes months of hard work and dedication. It is an unknown entity, one that changes and develops as my creative process gradually moves from one step to the next. Writing a book is very personal. As well as a creative journey. Consequently, as an author, I need but dread to hear […]