Flagship · Intermediate · $147
The cascading rose every couple asks for by name.
Big, fluffy, garden-rose romance. The cabbage-petal David Austin that defines modern wedding cake design, taught across 29 lessons and four and a half hours of video, with the lightweight-base technique that keeps it from weighing down your cake and ruining your fondant or buttercream finish.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Lessons
29 lessons
Length
4.5 hours
The David Austin Rose
What You'll Learn
How to make a giant, fluffy rose without weighing down the cake.
The technique behind every editorial David Austin you’ve seen, lightweight, layered, and dusted with two-tone antique hues.
01
A lightweight centre & base
Build a centre and base structure that won’t tear your fondant or gouge your buttercream, but holds the fluffiest finished flower.
02
Two-hue colour theory
Two warm antique gumpaste colours, one for the centre and one for the outer petals. Streamline the work, save loads of time on dusting.
03
Dense inner petals
The tightly-packed centre cluster that gives the David Austin its signature compact heart. Cut, shape, attach, repeat.
04
Par-dried outer petals
Looser, more open outer petals that you don’t have to wire individually. The technique that gets the in-full-bloom look without a workshop of tools without the stress of wiring or wobbly petals.
05
Layered dust gradients
Mix and layer multiple dusts. Subtle gradients. The kind of finish that makes people lean in to check whether it’s real.
Why The David Austin Rose
The rose that defined a generation of wedding cakes.
Open any wedding cake magazine from the last decade and the David Austin is there. Cascading from a tier. Tucked into a peony arrangement. Standing alone as a sculptural top. It’s the cabbage-petal garden rose that, more than any other flower, defines what couples mean when they say “I want my cake to feel romantic.”
Big, fluffy, garden-rose romance is built differently from a classic rose. The David Austin needs a lightweight base, a tightly-packed centre, and looser par-dried outer petals. This course teaches all three, and shows you how to do it with the simplest tools.
“I really love the garden rose tutorial that I continue to reference when I need a refresher.” · Paulina Gouzy · Academy student
It’s also one of the most photographable sugar flowers there is. Editorial-ready out of the box. The kind of flower that gets your work shared, tagged, and remembered.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, chapter by chapter.
29 lessons across four chapters and the downloads vault. Four and a half hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.
Chapter 01
Preparations, Centre & Colour
4 lessons
- ▷Chapter 1 Overview
- ▷Creating your centres
- ▷Colouring your gumpaste (two warm hues)
- ▷Classic gumpaste recipe
Chapter 02
Centre Petals
3 lessons
- ▷Chapter 2 Overview
- ▷Shaping inner petals
- ▷Cutting inner petals
Chapter 03
Mid & Outer Petals
5 lessons
- ▷Chapter 3 Overview
- ▷Attaching mid petals
- ▷Shaping outer petals
- ▷Attaching outer petals
- ▷Shaping mid petals
Chapter 04
Dusting, Calyxes & Repair
4 lessons
- ▷Chapter 4 Overview
- ▷Adding a calyx
- ▷Repairing petals
- ▷Dusting your David Austin Rose
Bonus + Downloads
Majolica Workshop & Downloads
8 lessons
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 1
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 2
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 3
- ▷Majolica Rose Schedule
- 📄David Austin Arrangement Recipes
- 📄David Austin Sample Schedule
- 📄David Austin Colours
- 📄Sugarpaste Recipe
- 📄Majolica Workshop Tools List
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 David Austin Rose
$147 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓Full course, four chapters, 29 lessons
- ✓Four and a half hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓Lightweight-base technique that won’t tear your fondant
- ✓Two-hue colour-blending taught from scratch
- ✓Options taught with AND without a silicone veiner
- ✓Bonus: Majolica Rose Workshop (3 recorded classes)
- ✓Arrangement Recipes, Sample Schedule, Colour Guide, 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
“I found Alexandria’s spray rose tutorial on YouTube on a whim. I stopped by the craft store, gathered some bare minimum tools, and somehow turned a lump of store-bought gumpaste into a lifelike flower. I couldn’t believe what I had made, and I was instantly hooked.”
Rachel M · Dreamcakes, Austin
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 David Austin Rose 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.