Technique · Intermediate · $147
The piping style every editorial bride is requesting.
Royal-icing piping in the historical Lambeth style. The intricate borders, scrolls, drop strings, and lattice work that defines vintage-luxury wedding cakes. Ten foundational patterns taught from scratch, then a full project cake to bring them together.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Lessons
10 patterns
Length
~3.5 hours
The Lambeth Piping Series
What You'll Learn
Ten patterns, taught one at a time.
No “watch and try to keep up.” Each pattern gets its own lesson, with the exact tip recommendation, technique, and the troubleshooting for when it doesn’t go right the first time.
01
The foundational lines
Straight lines and scalloped lines. The two patterns you’ll use as bases for almost every Lambeth design. PME tip recommendations included.
02
Rope, shell & pearl borders
The classic border family. Rope for swags, shell or pearl for the perimeter of a tier. Even pressure, even spacing, even sizing.
03
Braid & dots
The braid sits between basket weave and rope. The dots seem simple but the technique of not leaving a peak when you lift off, that’s where most piping looks amateur. Both fixed.
04
Lattice, ruffle & drop strings
The patterns that turn a plain tier into Lambeth. Working counter-clockwise so a broken line never ruins your work. Two ruffle techniques. Gravity-assisted drop strings on a vertical surface.
05
S-scrolls & the project cake
The flourish that finishes a Lambeth cake. Then we bring all ten patterns together in one project tier, designed and piped from start to finish.
Lambeth piping detail · drop strings
Why Lambeth Piping
The cake style every wedding magazine is printing.
Open Pinterest right now and search “vintage wedding cake.” The cakes that come back, the ones with intricate borders, ribbons of piping, drop strings, scrollwork. That’s all Lambeth. It’s the technique that’s been quietly returning to wedding cake design for the last three years, and the cake artists who can pipe it are getting the bookings.
Lambeth scares most people off because it looks intricate. It isn’t. It’s ten foundational patterns, taught one at a time, and then combined. Once you can pipe a clean drop string, a clean shell border, and a clean S-scroll, you can pipe any Lambeth cake you can imagine.
“Watching your How to Make an Elegant Organic Floral Piped Cake video helped so much with this cake, which was for a wedding.” · Pauline Brinkman · Academy student
The course also doesn’t skip the unglamorous parts. Which tips to buy (and which to skip). How to fix a broken line without redoing the whole tier. Working counter-clockwise so gravity is on your side. The kind of details that you only learn after twenty wedding cakes go through your studio.
The Curriculum
Every pattern, every tip.
Eleven lessons across three modules. Approximately three and a half hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.
Module 01
Setup, Royal Icing & Tools
2 lessons
- ▷Royal icing recipe and consistency
- ▷My favourite piping tips (PME, Jem, Ateco, Wilton)
Module 02
The Ten Foundational Patterns
10 lessons
- ▷Pattern 1: Straight Lines
- ▷Pattern 2: Scalloped Lines
- ▷Pattern 3: Rope
- ▷Pattern 4: Shell & Pearl borders
- ▷Pattern 5: Braid
- ▷Pattern 6: Dots (without the peak)
- ▷Pattern 7: Lattice
- ▷Pattern 8: Ruffle (two techniques)
- ▷Pattern 9: Drop Strings
- ▷Pattern 10: S-Scrolls
Module 03
The Project Cake
3 lessons
- ▷Designing a Lambeth tier from scratch
- ▷Piping the project, top to bottom
- ▷Fixing breaks and uneven lines
Downloads
Practice guide & recipes
2 downloads
- 📄Piping Practice Guide (all 10 patterns)
- 📄Royal Icing 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 Lambeth Piping Series
$147 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓15 lessons across three modules
- ✓~3.5 hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓All 10 foundational patterns, taught individually
- ✓Full project cake from design to finish
- ✓Tip recommendations across PME, Jem, Ateco, Wilton
- ✓Piping Practice Guide PDF with visual reference for all 10 patterns
- ✓Royal icing recipe download
- ✓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 Lambeth Piping Series 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.