Project · Intermediate · $197
From your kitchen to their wedding.
A complete, three-tier wedding cake project, taught end to end. The exact timeline, recipes, sizes, stacking, and delivery technique I use for every wedding cake that leaves my studio. By the end, you’ll have made a real wedding cake, with no surprises on the day.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Format
Project-based
Length
~4.5 hours
What You'll Learn
Every skill that takes a cake from kitchen to venue.
Not just decorating, the whole logistics chain. Timeline, scaling, stacking, transport. The unglamorous parts that decide whether the cake arrives intact.
01
Three cake sizes, scaled properly
10 servings, 27 servings, 60 servings. The exact vanilla cake recipe scaled three ways, so your tiers bake evenly regardless of pan size.
02
The professional timeline
What to bake when. How to store cakes and fillings. How far ahead you can prep each step. When to deliver for optimum freshness. The schedule that prevents the night-before panic.
03
Assembly & masking, scaled up
Filling and masking a three-tier cake is different from a single-tier. Sharp edges, smooth sides, dowel placement, internal structure, all taught for the larger format.
04
Stacking that holds
The stacking technique that doesn’t sag, lean, or collapse. Internal dowels, board placement, structural geometry. The difference between a cake that arrives and a cake that doesn’t.
05
Transport & day-of delivery
How to get a three-tier cake into a car without disaster. The disaster bag (what’s in it, how to use it). On-site fixes when something cracks at the venue without losing your mind.
Why DIY Wedding Cake
The course for the moment someone asks.
It usually goes one of two ways. Either your daughter, sister, or best friend looks at you across the kitchen and says “would you make my wedding cake?”, or you’re already taking cake orders on weekends and a couple has just asked you to do their wedding for the first time. Both moments come with the same internal monologue: I can bake a cake, but a wedding cake?
Yes. You can. A three-tier wedding cake is just three cakes you already know how to make, plus the logistics that wrap around them. This course teaches the logistics. The bake-ahead schedule, the cake-board sizing, the dowel placement, the disaster-bag-in-the-trunk that means nothing rattles you on the day.
“The photographer couldn’t believe the sugar paste flowers were not real.” · Janet Pinson · Academy student
This is also a starter project. Three intro flowers are included so you can decorate your cake right out of the gate, plus a coupon for additional flower courses if you want to push it further later. Everything in one $197 box.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, step by step.
Six modules covering the bake, build, decorate, and deliver. Approximately four and a half hours of paced video, plus the full recipe vault. Yours to keep, forever.
Module 01
Timeline & Planning
2 lessons
- ▷When to bake (working backwards from the wedding day)
- ▷Storage rules for cakes and fillings
Module 02
Baking Three Tier Sizes
3 lessons
- ▷Vanilla cake recipe at 5″ (10 servings)
- ▷Vanilla cake recipe at 7″ (27 servings)
- ▷Vanilla cake recipe at 9″ (60 servings)
Module 03
Buttercream, Fillings & Syrup
3 lessons
- ▷Vanilla bean buttercream (or extract option)
- ▷Filling options: store-bought jam, curd, or caramel
- ▷Simple syrup for moisture and longevity
Module 04
Assembly & Masking
2 lessons
- ▷Building each tier (level, fill, crumb coat, mask)
- ▷Sharp edges and smooth sides at scale
Module 05
Stacking & Decorating
3 lessons
- ▷Dowels, boards, and stacking that holds
- ▷Safe flower use (real flowers and sugar flowers)
- ▷Three included intro sugar flowers
Module 06
Transport & Delivery
3 lessons
- ▷Boxing and getting the cake into a car
- ▷Day-of delivery for optimum freshness
- ▷The disaster bag and on-site fixes
Bonuses
Extras & downloads
4 downloads
- ▷Coupon for additional beginner flower courses
- 📄Vanilla Cake Recipe (3 sizes)
- 📄Buttercream & Simple Syrup Recipes
- 📄Wedding Day Timeline Template
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.
DIY Wedding Cake
$197 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓Six modules across the full project, bake to delivery
- ✓~4.5 hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓Three cake sizes scaled and tested: 10, 27, 60 servings
- ✓Full wedding-day timeline and storage rules
- ✓Stacking with internal dowels, transport, and on-site fixes
- ✓Three intro sugar flowers included for decorating
- ✓Coupon for additional beginner flower courses
- ✓All recipes as downloadable 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
“Having decided to make my own wedding cake, I first discovered Alexandria through her YouTube tutorials. I quickly fell in love with her beautiful work and her clear, easy to follow teaching style, which left me wanting to learn more.”
Rachel Dolphin · made her own wedding cake
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?
DIY Wedding Cake 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 seven months in the Academy, you’ve already gotten more than the price of this single course. Most members stay much longer.