Lindy Smith

One-Tier Party Cakes

From simple snacks to works of art, a delicious assortment of recipes and ideas for cookie lovers! This indulgent array of exquisite colorful cookies, brought to you by bestselling author and sugarcrafter Lindy Smith, shows how easy it is to bake a range of cookie recipes and get creative with endless ideas for icing, decorating, and presentation—with irresistible results. Cookie lovers will be amazed at the variety, from simple single cookies to enjoy with coffee to those transformed into wedding favors, decorations, or even towering celebration displays. With mouthwatering photography, tempting tips, and a wide range of easy-to-follow, decadent projects, it’s hard to resist this celebration of the world of cookies.

Over 100 Excuses to Indulge

Bake Me I'm Yours . . . Cookie

Designs and techniques for over 20 celebration mini cakes Celebrate in style with Lindy Smith's gorgeous designs, including cute characters, beautiful flowers and classic patterns. Create delicious treats for every occasion, from birthdays and children's parties to weddings, anniversaries and Christmas. Discover a variety of cake and icing recipes, learn about sugarcraft tools and get expert advice with Lindy's tips and inspiring variation ideas.

Celebrate with Mini Cakes

Celebrate any occasion with 30 beautiful cupcake designs from bestselling cake decorating author Lindy Smith. Each unique cupcake design includes expert sugarcrafting tips and techniques, easy step by step instructions and gorgeous full colour photography to help you achieve professional looking cupcakes for any occasion, from birthday cakes and children's parties to cupcake wedding favours and anniversaries. Discover delicious cupcake recipes, exciting cake decorating techniques, inspiring ideas and expert tips to make your cupcake designs perfect every time, and learn how to create simple but effective cake toppers and decorations, including sugar flowers, sugar animals, hearts, fairies, bats, crowns, bears, swirls, stars and more! This is the essential resource for all of your cupcake decorating needs.

Celebrate with Cupcakes

Learn over 150 cake decorating techniques with this bestseller from the renowned sugarcraft expert! This is the ultimate guide to contemporary cake design—you’ll learn how to make decorated cakes, starting with basic sugarcraft tools, baking recipes, and ingredients, and finishing with advanced modeling techniques, including royal icing stenciling, brush embroidery, buttercream piping, using sugar cutters and molds, making cake jewelry, and so much more! Get creative with simple, step-by-step instructions for more than eighty celebration cake, mini-cake, cupcake, and cookie designs. Essential tips and advice are included for all skill levels, from complete beginners to the most confident of cake decorators—and you can even learn how to make Lindy Smith’s signature “wonky cakes.”

Over 150 Techniques and 80 Stunning Projects

The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible

Ian D. Rotherham

Christine Handley (eds)

Melvyn Jones

The Woodland Heritage Manual

Be inspired to create celebration cakes that are as desirable as they are delicious Step by step, combine and decorate basic shapes for results as simple or sensational as you desire. Achieve effortlessly eye-catching effects through clever color choices and bold embellishment. Ensure your cake is party-perfect with expert tips and techniques, easy shortcuts and extra design ideas. Make exquisite coordinating mini-cakes to be enjoyed at celebrations or given as delightfully sweet gifts. Inspirational styles include: Funky Flowers Twinkling Snowflakes Opulent Swirls Retro Graphics Quirky Cut-outs Delicate Mosaics Wonky Tiers Beautiful Beads

Cakes to Inspire and Desire

15 step-by-step projects for enchanting cake designs Lindy Smith Delight children and adults alike with any of these 15 lively, fun cake designs based on well-loved fairy tales and enchanted stories. Well-known novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of delightful cakes, and guides the reader step by step, from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of tools and equipment available to today's cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fondant, buttercream and other recipes required. The 15 projects have easy-to-follow illustrated steps revealing how to create and decorate the cakes. Handy tips for short-cuts and creative variation ideas throughout allow you to tailor each cake to your timescale and taste (not forgetting the childrens' ideas!), resulting in bespoke cakes for any occasion. In addition, handy templates and cutting guides are provided to ensure easy and professional results every time.

A Step-by-step Guide to Creating Enchanting Novelty Cakes

Storybook Cakes

Presents twenty recipes for cupcakes for any occasion, ranging from romantic settings to children's parties, with detailed instructions for each step of creating the perfect cupcake.

Bake me I'm Yours... Cupcake Love

Create 12 elaborate, single-layer cakes for a variety of occasions from birthdays to baby showers, friendship celebrations to Christmas festivities. Create beautiful cakes for all occasions! With guidance and inspiration from sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith, learn how to decorate your single-tier cakes with impressive embellishments that will be the centerpiece of any party event. 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.

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