Lydia Smith Cakes

07/06/2026

Buttercream cakes have been very popular recently. So if you don’t really like fondant, yet want your cake completely covered, then buttercream is a good choice. Most decorative styles be added to buttercream cakes such as sugar flowers, fresh flowers and the, ever popular, Lambeth handpiped cakes can be done using buttercream.

Are you considering this style of cake? I’d be happy to have a chat with you so get in touch soon as lets start designing your wedding cake together.

06/06/2026

Semi-Naked Cakes
If you are not particularly keen on sugarpaste or prefer a more rustic look, then perhaps consider a semi-naked cake. Instead of the cakes being coated in white chocolate ganache and then iced with sugarpaste, they are simply skimmed with a thin layer of buttercream which is just enough to see the cake layers through. Semi-naked cakes can be decorated with sugar flowers or fresh flowers which gives a slightly more rustic look than an iced cake and look especially lovely in a barn style venue.

If you are currently wedding planning and still need to tick the ‘get cake sorted’ box, then please get in touch in the first instance to check my availability for your date. I am now taking bookings for Autumn 2026 and 2027.

05/06/2026

How do we book our wedding cake with you?
Are you recently engaged? Congratulations! Its now time to start planning your dream wedding and it can be a little overwhelming and I completely understand that.

Once you have chosen your wedding date and booked your venue, I would love to hear from you. If I have your wedding date available and my wedding cake style fits what you are looking for, you are able to secure your wedding cake with me with a £100 non-refundable booking fee.

Once secured, you don’t need to worry about anything until around 4-6 months before your wedding, when I will invite you both to a Design Consultation to thoroughly design and discuss your cake.

If you are planning a 2027 wedding, now’s the time to get in touch to check my availability. I can’t wait to hear from you and lets start planning your wedding cake together.

04/06/2026

Kind words mean the world.

03/06/2026

We had a little gathering to celebrate my son and his fiancées recent engagement.

I tried a new technique of hand piping buttercream flowers on this cake along with a handcrafted sugar flower on top.

03/06/2026

01/06/2026

Welcome June - how are we halfway through the year already!

June, for me, is about a couple of weeks on a Mediterranean cruise which I'm really looking forward too. I have a few celebration cakes booked in and one wedding cake to share with you in due course. It's also family birthday month too.

Have a wonderful June!

27/05/2026

I can't believe it was a year ago I made this beautiful semi-naked cake and dressed it with fresh flowers. Such a beautiful wedding set up for this lovely couple.

23/05/2026

This buttercream beauty was handpiped in a vintage style with the gold and burgundy matching the couples colour scheme.

The couple chose flavours of Classic Vanilla and Light Chocolate and was serving their cake as dessert.

This venue was stunning and another first visit for me. Can we just appreciate how stunning these doors were behind the cake. Apparently brought in from a French Chateau, they set the cake off beautifully.