Lindy Smith

Pam and Nicky Lintott have sold over 250,000 books all over the world - testament to their extraordinary talent for creating great quilt designs with easy-to-follow instructions. Following on from the best-selling title Layer Cake, Jelly Roll & Charm Quilts, this is a beautiful collection of quilt designs using layer cakes, jelly rolls, charm packs and fat-eighth bundles. As Pam and Nicky say in the introduction, 'Often you will be using fabrics that you wouldn't normally choose (or be brave enough to use) and we can assure you that often it is those fabrics that add the extra sparkle. We hope that this sparkle in our quilts will inspire you'.

One-Tier Party Cakes features 12 elaborate, single-layer cakes for a variety of occasions from birthdays to baby showers, friendship celebrations to Christmas festivities. Lindy Smith demonstrates how to transfer a template to the cake and decorate each of the three-dimensional designs in the book, while providing plenty of inspiration and encouragement for the reader to develop their own designs. This book features recipes for two delicious layered cakes (Madeira and chocolate fudge); plus the ingredients you need to make successful cake coverings and fillings including sugarpaste (fondant), flower paste, modelling chocolate, ganache and royal icing. It also includes new and popular cake techniques such as achieving sharp edges, working with modelling chocolate, airbrushing, cocoa butter painting and mastering double-height cakes.

Bestselling cake decorating author and world-renown sugarcraft teacher, Lindy Smith shows you how to make a wedding cake with the minimum of fuss but with maximum effect! Today's brides are looking for simple wedding cakes that look modern and stylish but also want unique wedding cakes that don't cost the earth. This step-by-step guide will show you how to create a wide range of styles for modern simple wedding cakes, using the latest trends in cake decorating and wedding design, for a DIY wedding cake book like no other! Lindy Smith is one of the world's best-selling cake decorators, and has sold over half a million books worldwide. The simple wedding cakes in this book feature on-trend designs that break with tradition, using styles, colours and shapes that today's brides are looking for. With achievable wedding cake designs and accessible cake decorating techniques, this book covers the whole process of making a wedding cake - from conception to construction to decoration and even demolition!

The definitive guide to mini cakes with expert instruction from world-renown cake decorator, Lindy Smith. Author of the international bestsellers The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible and Creative Colour for Cake Decorating, Lindy now presents her ultimate mini cakes masterclass. Mini cakes are ideal for trying out new techniques on a small scale, making the results quick and achievable for all skill levels. They make perfect gifts, to give to guests as parties or as wedding favours or simply to make for yourself. With over 30 diverse and delightful mini cake projects for all occasions, this unique book contains all the step-by-step advice and expert knowledge you need to bake, paint, pipe, model and mould small yet perfectly formed mini cakes every time. With delicious cake recipes and fully illustrated instructions for every step of the way, you will be guided effortlessly through the creative process to make peerless bakes that are perfect for parties, gifts or celebrations. From a beach hut to a teddy bear, a pocket watch to a vintage cotton reel, the range and style is varied, fun and – like Lindy herself – endlessly creative!

The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible: Piping: Learn everything you need to know about piping with royal icing and buttercream and create gorgeous decorated cakes, cookies, cupcakes and mini cakes with this comprehensive booklet of piping techniques and designs from the bestselling The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Includes recipes for buttercream and royal icing, as well as details for for covering cake boards and storing and transporting your decorated cakes. Piping techniques include piping buttercream swirls and peaks on cupcakes, as well as piping buttercream flowers, and creating piped lace designs and brush embroidery with royal icing. Practise your new piping skills with nine stunning cake designs, featuring piped patterns and effects on celebration cakes, cupcakes and cookies.

Creative Colour for Cake Decorating Learn how to choose and use colours creatively in your cake decorating projects with 10 amazing cake designs from Lindy Smith, author of the international bestseller The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Discover how to adapt cake designs to your own colour schemes, how to take colour inspiration from objects and environments around you to create your own unique palettes, and how to use the food paste colours available to best effect on stunning decorated cakes. Includes 10 colour-themed chapters each with an amazing cake decorating design and additional cupcake or cookie projects in alternative colourways, to show how selecting different colours can dramatically change the feel of your design. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover every stage of cake design, from baking cakes and mixing colours to sugar modeling and adding finishing touches – perfect for both beginner and experienced cake decorators alike! Featuring a fully comprehensive index of all of the food paste colours available from the main suppliers in the UK, and full instructions on how to alter their tone, hue and intensity to suit your cake decorating needs. AWARD-WINNER: Best Sweet Pastry Book, UK, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2013

Take your cake decorating skills to the next level with this fantastic collection of fun and stylish minicakes - ideal for beginner sugarcrafters or cupcake experts alike. This title offers over 25 creative minicake designs to suit a wide range of occasions, from nursery bricks and wedding bouquets to funky flowers, cheeky chimps and fairytale castles, with expert sugarcrafting tips and techniques presented in an easy-to-follow step by step format.

15 animal themed party cakes that will appeal to adults and children alike, from favourite pets such as the cat and dog to an elephant, fish and prickly hedgehog. Lindy Smith's popular style uses sugarpaste, buttercream (fondant) and clever techniques to create the colours, textures, patterns and shapes that make animal cakes so much fun. Variation design ideas, quick-and-clever cupcakes and delicious cookies continue the theme for a choice of party food. Over 200 easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and instructions, plus clear carving templates, ensure animal cakes to make any party a roaring success!

Three professional cake designers combine their talents in the 15 cake decoration projects in this book, each of which has variations to reduce the time it takes to make it, and adaptations for creating different designs. For example, a windowbox cake can be adapted into a tropical aquarium cake.