‘Tips for recreating your beautiful sugar embroidery patterns please’, is a request I have received a few times recently. Many people seems to love my ‘Fair Isle & Beyond’ set of mini cakes – they have even bought the embroidery grid embosser so they can have a go… BUT it seems some people get a […]
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See Lindy Smith Live on Stage at Cake International Manchester this coming weekend for FREE
Event City, near the Trafford Centre in Manchester is where it’s all happening this weekend! For cake lovers, or more precisely those of us that like to decorate our cakes it is definitely the place be. I love Cake International Exhibitions and have exhibited at Manchester since it started a few years ago. This year, […]
Create and Craft TV invite author Lindy Smith to demonstrate cakes from her ‘Mini Cakes Academy’ book
Over the years that I’ve been teaching and demonstrating cake decorating, I have appeared on various TV shows but yesterday was my first appearance on Create and Craft TV. Create and Craft is a TV channel dedicated to all things craft, so when I heard that they wanted to feature my new ‘Mini Cakes Academy‘ […]
Lindy’s mini cakes decorated with delicate sugar snowflakes feature in Christmas Heaven magazine
I have been working with the lovely people from Food Heaven magazine, ever since they launched ‘Cupcake’ Heaven last autumn. The first magazine was a huge success and has meant that during 2012 they have brought us many more wonderful cakey publications – ‘Baking Heaven’ and ‘Cake Decorating Heaven’ to name a couple. The magazines […]
Recollections of a Sugarcraft Teaching Trip to Rome – A helpers viewpoint
Arriving in Rome for my second visit, as Lindy’s assistant, was just as exciting as the first. We were met at the airport by Laura, one of our hosts and driven straight to our hotel to unpack and get ready for the next day’s class. There was lots of talk of snow, but there were no […]
Christmas 2010 mini cake class
Lots of beautiful, delicate, white, sparkling snowflakes plus a scattering of stars were created at todays very festive Christmas mini cake workshop, aren’t they lovely. The snowflakes were created from pastillage – look carefully each one is different, just like the real ones!! The snowflake outlines are created using snowflake cutters and the patterns cut […]