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How to marzipan a double-height fruit cake

13th November 2020 by Lindy Smith Leave a Comment

How to marzipan a double height fruit cake

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

28th July 2020 by Lindy Smith 4 Comments

How to paint with cocoa butter by Lindy Smith

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 […]

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Edible wildflower meadow for Harry the hare – cake decorating tutorial

30th May 2018 by Lindy Smith

Harry the hare cake by cake designer Lindy Smith

Harry the Hare in his edible wildflower meadow is a cake design that I am immensely pleased with. My original idea was to create an Easter bunny amongst grass searching for decorated Easter eggs. However, the timing wasn’t quite right. My cake was being published in a magazine just days before Easter and so I was asked […]

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Ideas for creating textures using sugarcraft cutters

21st June 2017 by Lindy Smith

3D texture using sugarcraft cutters

“Ways of creating textures in sugarpaste please” is one of the most recent requests I have received from my students. There are, of course, countless ways to do this. I always like to throw something new into the mix, so decided to experiment using cutters and this blog is all about the 3-dimensional textures and […]

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How to make ombre sugar ruffles for fashion-forward flamboyant cakes

28th October 2016 by Lindy Smith

How to make ombre sugar ruffles

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 […]

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Lindy Smith gets ‘Craftsy’ with her cake designs!

26th July 2013 by Lindys Team

Clapper board for Lindy's Craftsy class

So what does the queen of Sugarcaft do when she has a few moments of spare time… she starts filming!! As if Lindy hasn’t got enough on her plate with Lindy’s Cakes, teaching and writing, the minute I turn my back she’s off in a studio far away being filmed doing what she does best. […]

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