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 […]
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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 […]
Cake jewellery – students work
Friday’s cake jewellery class was all about learning new jewellery cake techniques. It was the first time I’d taught this particular class, based on new jewellery techniques demonstrated in my cake jewellery gems dvd. So both the students and I were learning but as you can see from the photos below, they all did really well. […]