Flagship · Intermediate-Advanced · $147
The speckled flower that lives in your portfolio.
The Hellebore is the flower where wired petals, layered dust, and hand-painted speckles all come together. 24 lessons, three and a half hours of video, and three different centre options so you can build it to match your vision.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Lessons
24 lessons
Length
3.5 hours
The Hellebore
What You'll Learn
The skills that turn a sugar flower into a painting.
Wired petals, layered colour, hand-painted speckles. The Hellebore is the course where artistry takes over from technique.
01
Wiring individual petals
The technique that means your petals don’t snap, droop, or pull through the gum paste. Wiring 101 included, so every flower after this benefits.
02
Three centre options
Three different ways to make a hellebore centre, so you can adjust the style of your flower to match the cake, the mood, or your artistic vision.
03
Hand-painted speckles
The signature painted detail that gives the hellebore its name. With and without a paintbrush, real technique, real brushwork.
04
Multi-colour dusting
Mix and layer multiple dusts on a single petal without it getting muddy. The technique most courses skip and most cake artists fear.
05
Colour theory, deeper
Hues, tints, tones, and shades. No more muddy, dull colours, no more cake arrangements that feel disjointed. Cohesive and elegant, every time.
Why The Hellebore
The flower where you stop following along and start creating.
The Hellebore is different from the other flagship flowers. The Peony teaches abundance. The roses teach technique. The Hellebore teaches artistry. The moment you hand-paint your first speckle, the work stops being about following along and starts being about creating something only you would have made.
Wired petals. Layered colour. Three different centre options so the flower bends to your vision, not the other way round. This is the course that turns your work into a portfolio. Not a single flower, but a piece of art.
“I very much enjoyed the class! It was so fun and I learned a lot.” · Tricia Clarke · Academy student
It’s also the gateway flower if you’ve been wanting to learn painting on sugar flowers but didn’t know where to start. By the end of this course you’ll have wiring, layered dusting, and painting all in one place, the three techniques that unlock every other advanced flower.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, chapter by chapter.
24 lessons across three chapters, the Majolica Workshop, and a full downloads vault. Three and a half hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.
Chapter 01
Preparations, Wiring 101 & Stamens
5 lessons
- ▷Chapter 1 Overview
- ▷Wiring 101
- ▷Colouring your petals and centres
- ▷Creating your centres and stamens (3 ways)
- ▷Classic gumpaste recipe
Chapter 02
Creating your Petals
2 lessons
- ▷Chapter 2 Overview
- ▷Petal wiring and shaping
Chapter 03
Dusting, Painting & Finishing
4 lessons
- ▷Chapter 3 Overview
- ▷Painting your petals
- ▷Taping your flowers
- ▷Dusting your hellebore petals and centres
Bonus
Majolica Workshop
4 lessons
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 1
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 2
- ▷Majolica Workshop Day 3
- ▷Majolica Rose Schedule
- 📄Majolica Workshop Tools List
Downloads
Tools, schedules, recipes
5 downloads
- 📄Tools & Materials List
- 📄Hellebore Arrangement Recipes
- 📄Hellebore Sample Schedule
- 📄Hellebore Colours
- 📄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 Hellebore
$147 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓Full course, three chapters, 24 lessons
- ✓Three and a half hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓Wiring 101 included, applies to every wired flower after
- ✓Three different centre options so the flower bends to your vision
- ✓Hand-painting technique taught with AND without a paintbrush
- ✓Bonus: Majolica Rose Workshop (3 recorded classes)
- ✓Arrangement Recipes, Sample Schedule, Colour Guide, Tools List, 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
“Alexandria’s sugar flower tutorials are amazing online classes that have helped grow my confidence to create wonderful cake decor. I really love the peony and the garden rose tutorial that I continue to reference when I need a refresher. I highly recommend any of Alexandria’s courses, because she is truly an amazing artist and teacher.”
Paulina Gouzy · 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?
The Hellebore 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.