Cupcakes, cupcakes and more cupcakes – they seem to be everywhere I turn!!! I have always made and decorated cupcakes but I first came across cupcakes in large numbers when teaching in Australia last summer. Everywhere I visited seemed to have a cupcake shop just round the corner! On my return to the UK in […]
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Baking The Perfect Madeira Cake
After many requests from our workshop students, I am posting the Perfect Madeira Cake blog. Good luck and hope this helps you. Before working at Lindy’s I had never made a Madeira cake. My first attempts weren’t great – they came out of the oven domed, very crispy on the outside and really dry. I […]
Lindy’s dragon cake wins ‘iconic cake’ competition
What a lovely surprise to find out that my dragon cake has won the Cakes and Sugarcraft magazine’s iconic cakes competition. I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled and delighted I am. The magazine describes me as “one of the UK’s best-loved cake decorators” which is both humbling and gratifying. Iconic Cake Competition 2009 […]
Lindy’s Book Signing in Brisbane
If you’ve been following me on Twitter you’ll know that I’m now in Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. Today was my first official appointment here, a book signing at Kitchenware Plus – a fabulous kitchenware store on the Pacific Highway at Loganholme. I spent a delightful morning talking to a variety of their customers, who […]
Lindy in Australia – settling in
Jet lag…I do dislike this woozy feeling. I guess its just not natural to try and change my body clock so drastically so quickly! Well as you can probably tell, I’ve arrived and I’m on the internet! I had to wait until 10 am this morning for the shops to open, a long wait when I […]
Sugarcraft Workshops – Autumn 2009
We’ve just launched our autumn workshop programme; details are on the classes page on our website. We hope you like our selection. I’m always being asked about covering ball cakes so I’ve added a new course to help you learn this useful skill. So how do you fancy joining me to create this Christmas bauble […]