Flagship · Intermediate · $147
The flower that brings movement.
Sweet peas are the cascade flower of any romantic wedding cake. Multiple bloom stages, multiple petals, all flowing off one stem like the real thing is still in motion. Master the wired-petal cascade technique, the bud-to-full-bloom progression, and the soft palette work that defines every editorial spring and summer cake.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Lessons
26 lessons
Length
~3.5 hours
Sweet Peas
What You'll Learn
Five skills, one flower that brings life.
Sweet peas teach you to build motion into a flower. Every other course in the catalog teaches stillness, sweet peas teach flow. The skills here change how you think about every cascade arrangement you’ll ever build.
01
The three bloom stages
A real sweet pea stem has buds, half-open blossoms, and full blooms all at once. Master all three and the technique for taping them along a single stem so the flower reads as actively growing.
02
The signature twisted petal
Sweet peas have one specific petal shape, the “standard” that arcs back over the rest. Get that one petal right and the flower is unmistakable. Get it wrong and it’s just another pea blossom.
03
The cascading stem
Six to ten blooms on a single curving stem, alternating sides. The taping sequence, the gauge selection, and the gentle arc that makes a finished sprig fall the way a real one would.
04
Soft palettes & gradients
Sweet peas are almost always soft: blush, peach, lavender, butter yellow, ivory. The dusting technique for these pale palettes without losing dimension, plus the deeper-edged “smouldering” variation.
05
Arrangement as cascade
Sweet peas almost never sit upright on a cake. They cascade, drape, fall. The placement technique for using them as the motion-element that gives every other flower somewhere to go.
Why Sweet Peas
The flower that turns every cake into a photograph.
Most flowers on a wedding cake hold still. They sit. They look beautiful in their place. Sweet peas do something else. They move. A real sweet pea cascade tumbles off the side of a cake like the flower is still alive and reaching for light. Cake photographers know this. Wedding magazine editors know this. The reason editorial cake images so often feature sweet peas is the motion. Static cakes don’t photograph as well.
The technical reason is that sweet peas combine multiple bloom stages on a single stem. Buds, half-open blossoms, and full flowers, all reading as different moments in time. That progression is what creates the sense of motion. Master the three stages and you’ve added a kind of storytelling to your flower work that most cake artists never reach.
“I very much enjoyed the class! It was so fun and I learned a lot.” · Tricia Clarke · Academy student
And the eight five-star reviews on this course aren’t accidental. Sweet peas have a steeper learning curve than most filler flowers, and a higher payoff. Students who finish it consistently say it changed how they see arrangement.
The Curriculum
What you'll watch, module by module.
26 lessons across five modules and the downloads vault. Approximately three and a half hours of paced video. Yours to keep, forever.
Module 01
Introduction, Tools & Gumpaste
5 lessons
- ▷Welcome & what makes sweet peas different
- ▷Classic gumpaste recipe
- ▷Colouring gumpaste for soft palettes
- ▷Tools, wire gauges & the cascade setup
- ▷Module 1 Overview
Module 02
The Three Bloom Stages
7 lessons
- ▷Wiring & shaping the bud
- ▷The half-open blossom build
- ▷The full bloom: keel petal
- ▷The full bloom: wing petals
- ▷The signature twisted standard petal
- ▷Assembly & the petal-overlap rule
- ▷Module 2 Overview
Module 03
The Cascading Stem
5 lessons
- ▷Choosing your wire gauges for movement
- ▷The taping sequence: bud to full bloom
- ▷The alternating-side cascade
- ▷Setting the gentle arc
- ▷Adding tendrils & the calyx
Module 04
Soft Palettes & Dusting
5 lessons
- ▷Layered dusting on pale paste
- ▷The blush palette
- ▷The peach & butter palette
- ▷The lavender & ivory palette
- ▷The smouldering deeper-edged variation
Module 05
Arrangement as Cascade
4 lessons
- ▷Sweet peas with peonies & ranunculus
- ▷The drape: placing sweet peas off the cake edge
- ▷Pairing with lily of the valley & spring filler
- ▷Outro & finished cake walkthrough
Downloads
Cheat sheets, recipe, palette guide
4 downloads
- 📄Tools & Materials List
- 📄Sweet Pea Soft Palette Guide
- 📄Cascade Arrangement Reference
- 📄Sugarpaste Recipe
when you're ready
Yours to keep, forever.
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Sweet Peas
$147 one-time
Lifetime access. Watch as many times as you like.
- ✓Full course, five modules, 26 lessons
- ✓~3.5 hours of paced, in-depth video
- ✓All three bloom stages taught: bud, half-open, full bloom
- ✓The signature twisted standard-petal technique
- ✓The cascading-stem taping sequence
- ✓Four soft palette stories: blush, peach & butter, lavender & ivory, smouldering
- ✓Arrangement-as-cascade approach for pairing with peonies, ranunculus & lily of the valley
- ✓All recipes, tools list, palette & arrangement 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
“You are the one who first inspired me that a cake can be decorated this way. Even today, when I feel clueless about where to begin or stuck about the design, I refer to your page and watch your old tutorials. Thank you not just for teaching me flowers, but for being my inspiration.”
Anumeha Singh · 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?
Sweet Peas 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.