Technique · Intermediate · $97
The craft that opens up a second income stream.
Cookies are the gateway to corporate gifting, holiday markets, engagement parties, and bridal-shower commissions. They take a fraction of the time of a cake, and they ship. Master royal-icing consistency, flooding, piped detail, and the design library that turns plain shapes into editorial pieces.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Lessons
14 lessons
Length
~3 hours
What You'll Learn
The five skills that turn cookies into a product line.
A decorated cookie is one of the most photographable, shippable, repeatable things you can make. These are the technique fundamentals that make it possible.
01
Royal icing consistencies
The single most important skill in cookie work. Flood consistency, outline consistency, the in-between for piped details. The water-drop test, the timing rules, and the recipe that gets the right behaviour every time.
02
The flooding technique
The outline-and-flood method that gives a cookie its glassy mirror-smooth surface. Crater prevention, edge control, and the timing window that decides whether you get a clean fill or a streaky one.
03
Wet-on-wet & dry-on-dry
Two different design timelines. Wet-on-wet for marbled and embedded designs that finish in one session. Dry-on-dry for stacked piped detail, the editorial layered look. When to use which, taught with a project for each.
04
Piped detail
Brush embroidery, dot patterns, fine outlines, simple lettering, and the small flourishes that turn a plain shape into a luxury cookie. The same piping techniques from the cake side, scaled down to cookie size.
05
The design library
Five repeatable design themes you can scale into orders: monogrammed wedding-favour cookies, floral painted-cookie sets, geometric modern, holiday classic, and the on-trend “minimal luxury” style. Designs you can sell straight away.
Why Cookie Decorating
The product that scales.
Wedding cakes are remarkable, slow, single-customer work. Cookies are the opposite. They batch. They ship. Corporate clients buy them in fifties and hundreds. Holiday markets sell them by the dozen. Engagement parties order branded sets. The same skill set that goes into a wedding-cake consultation produces a product line that runs alongside your custom work.
The technique base is smaller than you’d think. Royal-icing consistency is the whole game. Once you have the four working consistencies dialled in, every design choice opens up. Flooding, piped detail, wet-on-wet marbling, dry-on-dry layering. All variations on the same underlying skill.
“I’m just a hobby baker, but I’ve learned so much.” · Rachel Dolphin · Academy student
Cookies are also the most photogenic thing you make. They sit flat. They light beautifully. Your social feed and your website portfolio benefit immediately, even if your cake bookings are months out. The marketing case alone justifies the course.
The Curriculum
Five modules, five repeatable designs.
14 lessons across five modules. Approximately three hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.
Module 01
Royal Icing & Consistencies
3 lessons
- ▷The royal icing recipe taught from scratch
- ▷The four working consistencies (flood, outline, detail, stiff)
- ▷Tools, tips, bottles & piping bags
Module 02
Outline & Flood
3 lessons
- ▷The outline-and-flood technique
- ▷Edge control & crater prevention
- ▷Drying times & the smooth-mirror finish
Module 03
Wet-on-Wet Designs
3 lessons
- ▷Marbled designs
- ▷Embedded dot & line patterns
- ▷The brush-drag technique
Module 04
Dry-on-Dry Piped Detail
3 lessons
- ▷Brush embroidery
- ▷Fine outlines & lettering basics
- ▷Layered piped flourishes
Module 05
The Design Library
2 lessons
- ▷Five repeatable themes: monogram wedding favours, floral painted, geometric modern, holiday classic, minimal luxury
- ▷Packaging & presentation for orders
Downloads
Recipe & design reference
3 downloads
- 📄Royal Icing Recipe
- 📄Consistency Reference Chart
- 📄Five Design Templates
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.
Cookie Decorating Basics
$97 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓14 lessons across five modules
- ✓~3 hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓Royal icing recipe taught from scratch
- ✓The four working consistencies that drive every design
- ✓Outline, flood, wet-on-wet, and dry-on-dry techniques
- ✓Brush embroidery, fine outlines, and lettering basics
- ✓Five repeatable design themes ready to sell
- ✓Royal icing recipe, consistency chart, and design templates as 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
“I very much enjoyed the class! It was so fun and I learned a lot. I remember having such a great time in that class, and I would do it again.”
Tricia Clarke · Finespun Cakes Academy student
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?
Cookie Decorating Basics 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 four months in the Academy, you’ve already gotten more than the price of this single course. Most members stay much longer.