Advanced · Wedding-Editorial · $147
The orchid that takes your work from good to editorial.
Master the moth orchid in five advanced modules. The column, the labellum, sepals top, petals middle, sepals bottom, the anatomy that makes a sugar orchid look botanically real, not just botanically inspired.
Skill Level
Advanced
Lessons
10 lessons
Length
1 hour
The Sugar Moth Orchid
What You'll Learn
Five core skills, including techniques most courses skip.
An anatomically accurate sugar orchid, built from scratch. Every part of the flower has a name, a function, and a technique. Recorded once, yours forever.
01
Wire prep, properly
How to prep wires before you start, the unglamorous step that’s the difference between a flower that holds and one that droops.
02
Column & labellum
The two parts at the heart of every orchid. Most courses gloss over this. We go slow, and your finished flower will show it.
03
Sepals & petals, in order
The orchid has three sepals AND three petals, arranged in a specific botanical order. Top, middle, bottom, taught one at a time.
04
Hand-painting on petals
The painted spots and veins that give the moth orchid its name. Real technique, real brushwork, taught from the brush up.
05
Taping the whole flower
Six wired parts becoming one finished orchid. Where the tape goes, what tension to use, how to hide the joins.
Moth orchid close-up · column & labellum
Why The Moth Orchid
The flower the wedding editorials keep asking for.
Open any modern wedding cake editorial and the orchid is there. Cascading. Singular. Botanically dramatic. It’s the flower planners request when they want a cake to make the magazine cover, and the flower most cake artists quietly skip because it’s intimidating to make.
The moth orchid earns its difficulty. It has anatomy. A column, a labellum, three sepals, three petals, all arranged in a specific botanical order. Most courses teach you to fake an orchid. This one teaches you to make one.
“When a cake artist tells me they’ve started getting editorial features, it almost always started with an orchid.”
It’s also one of the most versatile flowers in your portfolio once you can make it. Tropical wedding, minimalist white wedding, moody monochrome wedding, the orchid fits everywhere. One technique, ten years of bookings.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, step by step.
Ten lessons across five modules. A full hour of focused, paced video. Yours to watch as many times as you need.
Module 01
Before You Start
1 lesson
- ▷Prepping Wires
Module 02
Centres
2 lessons
- ▷Shaping the Column
- ▷Shaping the Labellum
Module 03
Sepals & Petals
4 lessons
- ▷Rolling & Cutting Petals
- ▷Sepal (Top)
- ▷Petals (Middle)
- ▷Sepals (Bottom)
Module 04
Taping, Dusting & Painting
2 lessons
- ▷Taping
- ▷Dusting and Painting
Module 05
Downloads
1 download
- 📄Moth Orchid Tool & Equipment 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 Sugar Moth Orchid
$147 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓Full course, all five modules, ten lessons
- ✓A full hour of paced video instruction
- ✓Hand-painting technique most courses don’t teach
- ✓Tool & Equipment PDF download
- ✓Watch on any device, any time
- ✓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 Sugar Moth Orchid 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.