Flagship · Intermediate · $147

The sculptural flower built for modern weddings.

Clean lines, sculptural form, and a thick wired stem you’d swear was real. The Calla Lily is the flower that defines minimalist luxury wedding cakes, and the first sugar flower most students reach for when they want to break out of “floral” into “architectural.”

Skill Level

Intermediate

Lessons

5 lessons

Length

~2 hours

$147

What You'll Learn

The skills behind a sculptural sugar flower.

Different from a layered flower. A calla lily is about one perfect curved petal, one realistic centre, and one stem that holds its weight. Five core skills, taught from scratch.

Complex single-petal shaping

The curved, almost-twisted single petal that defines a calla lily. Rolling, cutting, and shaping technique that makes the difference between flat and sculptural.

Texturing without a veiner

Subtle ribbing along the petal, taught with the simplest of tools. No expensive silicone veiner required.

Building the spadix centre

The yellow-orange spike at the heart of the flower. Colour, shape, and the realistic pollen finish that pulls the whole thing together.

The thick wired stem

The calla lily’s signature trick. A stem that looks thick and substantial while staying lightweight on a cake. Wire prep, gum paste wrapping, taping.

Subtle dusting on white

Calla lilies are often near-white, which means dusting is where they earn their realism. Building up subtle greens, soft creams, and the faintest blush, without ever looking dirty.

Why The Calla Lily

The flower for couples who don't want a floral cake.

There’s a kind of bride who walks into a tasting and says “I love your work, but I don’t want flowers all over my cake.” She’s not anti-flower. She’s anti-fussy. What she wants is architectural. Sculptural. The single dramatic gesture instead of the cascading bouquet.

That bride wants a calla lily. Cleanly curved, almost minimalist, and the only flower that can carry a whole tier on its own. Three of them on a column-style wedding cake, and you’ve got the cover of every modern wedding magazine for the last five years.

“I use your sugar paste recipe consistently in any of my sugar work. I love how easy the recipe is.” · Kathy Brown · Academy student

The calla lily is also the easiest sculptural flower to master once you’ve made a few layered ones. If you’ve taken any of the rose courses, your hands already know what gum paste should feel like. This one is just one petal, one centre, one stem, but every single piece has to be perfect.

The Curriculum

What you'll watch, module by module.

Five focused modules and a full downloads vault. Approximately two hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.

Module 01

Before You Start

2 lessons

▷Welcome & introduction
▷Classic gumpaste recipe video

Module 02

Building the Spadix Centre

2 lessons

▷Colouring gum paste for the spadix
▷Shaping, drying, and finishing the centre

Module 03

Shaping the Curved Petal

3 lessons

▷Rolling and cutting the petal
▷Texturing without a veiner
▷The signature curve and twist

Module 04

Thick Stem & Dusting

3 lessons

▷The thick-stem wiring technique
▷Wrapping with gum paste
▷Subtle dusting on a near-white petal

Module 05

Finishing & Arrangement

2 lessons

▷Taping the centre, petal, and stem together
▷Arrangement ideas for modern wedding cakes

Downloads

Tools, recipes, arrangements

3 downloads

📄Tools & Materials List
📄Calla Lily Arrangement Recipes
📄Sugarpaste Recipe

when you're ready

Yours to keep, forever.

Pay once. Watch in your kitchen, on your phone, or with a friend. No subscription, no expiry, no platform that disappears.

The Calla Lily

$147 one-time

Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.

✓Full course, five modules
✓~2 hours of paced, in-depth video
✓The thick-stem technique that defines a realistic calla lily
✓Subtle dusting on near-white, the technique most cake artists fear
✓No silicone veiner required, taught with simple tools
✓Tools list, arrangement recipes, sugarpaste recipe PDFs
✓30-day money-back guarantee

If the first lesson doesn’t land for you, email me within 30 days and I’ll refund you in full. No questions, no friction.

What Students Say

“Joining this academy has been one of the best decisions I’ve made for my cake business. Beyond the incredible sugar flower and piping techniques I’ve picked up, it’s given me so much more confidence around the business side of things, like pricing my work properly and learning to value my time.”

Michelle Henry · Iris Street Bakery

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.

My courses are taught the way I wish someone had taught me, with every step shown, no gatekeeping, and no rushing through the parts that actually matter.

a smarter way

Why buy one course when you could have all of them?

The Calla Lily is included in the Finespun Academy at $29/month, along with every other course, over 100 studio recipes, all seven studio tools, and live time with Alexandria every month.

After five months in the Academy, you’ve already gotten more than the price of this single course. Most members stay much longer.