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Free Course · Beginner-Friendly
Your first sugar flower, in your hands.
A complete beginner course on the Japanese Anemone, the flower I recommend everyone start with. Soft white petals, a stamen-filled centre, and a quiet confidence by the time you finish. Yours, free.
Skill Level
Beginner
Lessons
7 lessons
Length
30 mins
What's In The Course
Four core skills, taught in plain English.
Every petal-shaping technique, every dusting tip, every troubleshooting moment. Recorded once, kept by you forever.
01
Building the centre
Shaping the gum-paste centre and adding the stamen detail that brings the anemone to life.
02
Wired petals
Cutting, thinning, and wiring petals so they hold their shape and bend the way you want them to.
03
Dusting with depth
Soft, subtle dusting on white petals, the technique that separates flat sugar flowers from real ones.
04
Taping the flower together
Bringing your petals and centre into one finished flower, ready for a cake or to live on its own.
Why The Anemone
The flower I recommend everyone start here.
Most people start with a rose because it feels iconic. Then they get frustrated, because a rose is hard. Layered petals, complicated shaping, a forgiving flower it is not.
The Japanese Anemone is the flower I wish I’d been told to start with. It teaches every fundamental, all in one flower. Centres, stamens, wired petals, dusting on white, taping. By the time you finish this one course, you have the foundations for every flower in my library.
“If you can make this, you can make every other flower I teach. It’s that complete a starter.”
It’s also one of the most modern, photographable sugar flowers there is. Brides ask for them. Editorials feature them. And they sit beautifully on almost any wedding-cake palette, from soft cream to dramatic moody.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, step by step.
Seven lessons. Roughly thirty minutes of focused, paced video. Yours to watch as many times as you need.
Module 01
Flower Centres
2 lessons
- ▷Centres
- ▷Stamens
Module 02
Petals
1 lesson
- ▷Wired Petals
Module 03
Dusting & Taping
3 lessons
- ▷Dusting Centres
- ▷Taping Flowers
- ▷Dusting Flowers
Module 04
Downloads
1 download
- 📄Tools & Equipment Checklist
your sugar flower starts here
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Free, instant access. The whole course lands in your inbox right after you sign up, plus a short series of follow-up emails to help you actually start.
No spam. Unsubscribe any time. Just sugar flowers in your inbox.
What You'll Need
Almost nothing.
You can start this course with what’s already in your kitchen and at most one quick trip to a craft shop.
The essentials
- ✦Gum paste, store-bought is fine to start
- ✦A ball tool (or a clean paintbrush handle)
- ✦A foam pad (or a folded kitchen towel)
- ✦Floral wire, 24-gauge for the petals
- ✦Florist tape, white or green
The nice-to-haves
- ✦A small rolling pin
- ✦A veining or Dresden tool
- ✦A pair of small needle-nose pliers
- ✦A set of petal dusts, any soft-pink and yellow
- ✦A small paintbrush for dusting
Once you’re enrolled, I’ll send you my full Sugar Flower Starter Kit PDF with affiliate links to everything I personally use. You don’t need it to start, but it makes the second flower easier.
Your Teacher
Hi, I'm Alexandria.
I founded Finespun Cakes in Toronto in 2015 and have spent the last decade designing wedding cakes and teaching sugar flowers to over 1,000 students worldwide.
I trained at Le Cordon Bleu, studied under Ron Ben-Israel in New York, won an American Cake Award, and was named one of Wedluxe’s Top 10 Wedding Cake Designers in Canada. But what I love most is this part, the part where someone makes their very first sugar flower.
That’s why this course is free. Because the first one matters.
when you're ready for more
Loved this? There's a whole library waiting.
The Finespun Academy is where you go after this. Her full course library, over 100 studio recipes, live time with Alexandria every month, and the studio tools she uses on every cake.
No pressure. Make the anemone first. The Academy will still be here.