Bake a Chocolate & Guinness Cake for Morning Coffee!
Morning tea or coffee is a very important part of a Lindy Smith workshop. Our expert assistant Sally is well known in our student circles for her baking – her Lemon Drizzle cake is divine. But today...
View ArticleMaking edible metallic glitter – a recipe:
Is your glitter edible? I am a little concerned that many people are unknowingly adding non-toxic glitters to their cake and cupcakes, in the mistaken belief that they are edible. These glitters are...
View ArticleChocolate and raspberry cupcake recipe
Some taste combinations work beautifully together and one of my favourites at the moment is raspberry and dark chocolate. These two ingredients not only look fantastic together but compliment each...
View ArticleLindy’s passion fruit cupcake recipe
I have always adored passion fruit, such a fabulous flavour, exotic and tangy. So I thought I’d share this delightful recipe for passion fruit cupcakes, which I picked up in a supermarket in...
View ArticleOlive’s Fabulous Flapjacks: Recipe
This is a tried and tested recipe at Lindy HQ. We all love our accounts lady, Olive’s flapjacks. They are oatylicious, not too sweet and have just the right amount of chew! Olive likes to adorn hers...
View ArticleHungry Teenagers….try this Mary Berry Muesli Cookie Recipe
Do you, like me, have teenagers in the house? Are you always hearing “is there anything to eat?”. If so I may have a solution. Mary Berry’s Muesli Cookies from her Ultimate Cake Book. This is a recipe...
View ArticleLindy’s Chocolate and Red Wine Cupcake Recipe
Delicate to the touch, delicious to the taste, gorgeous to the eye … what more could we ask of a cupcake? When it comes to flavours, what could be more perfect than combining the most divine in food...
View ArticleLindy’s Gorgeous Chocolate Ganache Recipe
Recently I blogged about my Chocolate and Red Wine cupcakes – a true wonder food, if ever there was one! I topped those divine little creations with my yummy-scrummy-in-my-tummy-chocolate ganache that...
View ArticleInspiring Sugar Flowers: Lindy’s Flower Paste Recipe
Flowers are nature’s crafted perfection – the way the petals form and fall, their inherent sculpture and simple yet stunning beauty. Flowers symbolise feelings and emotions, and give us a unique way...
View ArticleFresh Plum & Almond Crumble Slice Teatime Treat Recipe!
I found this delicious recipe on the BBC Good Food website one evening whilst browsing looking for some inspiration! It reminds me of a Bakewell Tart style cake, but a lot more moist. It’s lovely on...
View ArticleOrange and Poppy Seed Australian Cake Recipe as baked by Lindy Smith
I fell in love with this delicious cake on a teaching trip to Australia a few years ago, the tangy flavour and interesting texture of the poppy seeds and orange peel have me hooked! It seemed that...
View ArticleDog friendly birthday cake recipe for our canine friends
I grew up watching Blue Peter (a BBC TV children’s Programme) where the presenters, when I watched it all those years ago, always gave their dogs baked and decorated birthday cakes. It never occurred...
View ArticleRecipe for Moist and Delicious Blackcurrant Flapjack Squares
I must admit that of all the summer fruit that grow in my garden, blackcurrants are probably my least favourite. I guess this is because I find them rather too sour to eat straight off the bush, so...
View ArticleHow and when should you use pastillage and what is the recipe?
When talking to my students in class or engaging in conversations with enthusiastic cake decorators on social media, I often find either no one has heard of pastillage or that they have, but they think...
View ArticleThe best chocolate drip recipe for decorating cakes
I am sure you will agree, there is something quite irresistible about cakes that have chocolate dripping down their sides. They look simply delicious! Now may be this is because I’m a bit of a...
View ArticleGooseberry Streusel Recipe – a Summertime Bake
Gooseberry Streusel recipe is a delicious alternative to crumble and is an excellent way to help use up a bumper crop. To me it is a true taste of early summer. The recipe is easy to bake and simply...
View ArticleHow to make white chocolate mirror glaze marbled patterns to decorate your cakes
Mirror glaze or “glaçage miroir” is a technique for decorating cakes that right now is becoming increasingly popular. I guess this isn’t surprising, the marble patterns created are very varied,...
View ArticleHow and when should you use pastillage and what is the recipe?
Have you heard of Pastillage? When talking to my students in class, or engaging in conversations with enthusiastic cake decorators on social media, I often find either no one has heard of pastillage or...
View ArticleThe best chocolate drip recipe for decorating cakes
I am sure you will agree, there is something quite irresistible about cakes that have chocolate dripping down their sides. They look simply delicious! Now may be this is because I’m a bit of a...
View ArticleLearn how to make edible gelatin baubles
Edible gelatin baubles, or bubbles if you prefer, are a really effective eye catching cake decoration. I know this as whenever I decorate a cake with these baubles, everyone seems totally fascinated by...
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