Cake Decorating

Kangaroo Kitchenware Launches First Product

September 1, 2015 By aussiebob

We’re Live!

Kangaroo Kitchenware is today announcing the availability of it’s flagship product on Amazon for the US market.

The product is a 52-piece set of stainless-steel cake decorating nozzles or ‘tips’. Also included with the product is tips and techniques from a world-renowned cake designer. Lindy Smith is a talented British cake designer & sugarcrafter and author of ‘The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible ‘. This product includes a 32-page, full-color excerpt containing how-to piping advice, icing recipes and projects.

The product can purchased on Amazon for $35.95 by following this link or by copying this address into your browser:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010NRWGQA.

The Cake Decorating Bible

August 26, 2015 By aussiebob

This beautiful hard-cover book provides the opportunity to learn over 150 cake decorating techniques from international bestseller and renowned sugarcraft expert Lindy Smith.

This is the ultimate guide to contemporary cake designs – you will learn how to make decorated cakes, starting with basic sugarcraft tools, baking recipes and ingredients, and finishing with advanced modelling techniques, including royal icing stencilling, brush embroidery, buttercream piping, using sugar cutters and moulds, making cake jewellery, and so much more!

Get creative straight away with simple, step-by-step instructions for more than 80 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’.

Inside The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible

The Basics – delicious cake and cupcake recipes, and recipes for making your own sugarpaste (rolled fondant), royal icing, sugar glue, buttercream, and more!
Cake Decorating Techniques – here you will find 11 chapters each covering a huge range of essential cake decorating techniques, all explained with easy-to-follow step instructions and clear photography.
Contemporary Cake Designs – step by step instructions teach you how to make each of the 80 amazing cake designs featured in the book, from tiered cakes to cute cupcake and cookies.

With this comprehensive guide you will discover everything you need to know to create celebration cakes that are beautiful, unique and truly contemporary.

You can find this, and many other Lindy Smith books, under the Good Books section of this website.

Who is Lindy Smith?

August 15, 2015 By aussiebob

World renowned for her designs, writing and teaching Lindy Smith is a highly experienced and talented British cake designer & sugarcrafter. Recognised for her exquisite attention to detail and eye for colour Lindy has been translating her designs into sugarcraft for many years From humble beginnings in her home kitchen, experimenting with the ‘basics’ she learnt from an inspirational teacher, she soon discovered that sugar was the perfect medium through which to express her creative abilities and original ideas.

In 1997 Lindy entered her first set of competitions and much to her own amazement received 3 gold awards. She had arrived in the ‘cake’ world! In 1998 she started writing regular features for Cakes and Sugarcraft Magazine. Her first cake decorating book was published in 2000. She has continued to write books ever since, loving the freedom it gives her to be highly creative and original.

Lindy travels extensively for her work, gathering inspiration along the way, she has been very privileged to see first hand how sugarcraft and cake decorating is constantly evolving around the globe. Lindy runs a successful company, Lindy’s Cakes Ltd, based in Buckinghamshire, UK. The online shop side of the business specialises in sugarcraft products that she has ‘hand picked’ herself and uses in her books. She teaches sugarcraft at regular workshops throughout the year and continues to write about sugarcraft on a regular basis. Lindy Smith is passionate about her art and brings a fresh contemporary look to sugarcraft and cake design.