Sugar flowers, taught one petal at a time.
Finespun is the online cake school where over a thousand students have learned to make their first sugar flower. Led by Alexandria Carmona — Toronto cake designer, sugar flower devotee, and the patient teacher you’ve been looking for.
The Academy from $29 a month · Individual courses from $97 ·
Wedding cake commissions for Toronto and surrounding area couples by inquiry.
Some of what we've made.
Every cake out of this studio is built by hand and from scratch — the sponge, the buttercream, every petal of every flower. A small selection of the work below.
Meet Your Teacher
Led by Alexandria Carmona.
Alexandria has been making cakes — and teaching others how — for over a decade. She founded Finespun in 2015, trained at Le Cordon Bleu and under Ron Ben-Israel in New York, and now spends her days between making cakes for Toronto clients and recording lessons for her thousand-plus students worldwide.
American Cake Award winner. Patient teacher. Sugar flower devotee. Most days, you’ll find her in her studio with a paintbrush in one hand, a petal in the other, and her daughter Deliah playing on the floor nearby, making a cake for the weekend’s wedding, then turning around to film the next Academy lesson. All of it, all at once, somehow.
A monthly online studio for cake makers, hobbyists, and sugar flower lovers.
“These courses and the academy are worth their weight in GOLD! As someone who lives in a tiny town with little access to mentorship and professional community, the Finespun courses have been life and career changing for me and my business.”
Emma Nixon · The Cake Girl
Where shall we begin?
Path One
For Cake Makers.
The Finespun Academy is our monthly online studio — a warm, welcoming place for cake makers at every level to learn, practise, and grow together. Plus individual courses for everyone, and the Atelier for working professionals.
- ✦The Academy from $29/month · 35+ courses, monthly lessons, live time with Alex
- ✦Individual courses from $97 — yours to keep, forever
- ✦The Atelier (by application) for working luxury cake studios
- ✦A free Japanese Anemone class to try her teaching first
Path Two
For Couples.
A small slate of bespoke wedding cakes and special-occasion commissions each season, made by hand in our Bathurst Street studio. By appointment, by inquiry, with love.
- ✦Tastings at the studio
- ✦Custom design built around your venue and palette
- ✦Sugar flowers grown to match any colour story
- ✦Delivery and setup across the GTA
Or just pick the one you want.
Japanese Anemone
Your very first sugar flower. The gentlest way to learn shaping, dusting, and wiring.
The Sugar Peony
Petal layering, custom shapes, soft dusting — from tight bud to fully open bloom.
Moth Orchid Phalaenopsis
Multi-piece molds, complex shaping, painted detail. The most aspirational flower in the library.
David Austin Rose
The romantic, ruffled rose that has launched a thousand wedding cake portfolios.
The Classic Rose
The timeless one. Colour theory, gradient gum paste, advanced dusting — all in one course.
Hellebore
Painterly petals, wired construction, multiple colour layers — the cake artist's favourite.
Sugar Poinsettia
The flower that turns a holiday cake into a heirloom. Layered, dusted, taped.
Lambeth Piping
Vintage royal icing, line by line. The technique that books wedding cake commissions.
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Featured & honoured.
For Couples
A wedding cake worth photographing.
- ✦By inquiry, with limited weekends each season
- ✦Bespoke design developed from your colour story, venue, and florals
- ✦Sugar flowers built to match real wedding blooms — petal by petal
- ✦From classic tiered cakes to fully sculpted designs
- ✦Cakes that start at $1,500; bespoke pricing on request
Three courses, four, sometimes the whole library — at a kinder price.
The Bestsellers Bundle
Peony. Classic Rose. David Austin. The three most-loved sugar flowers, together.
Rose Fundamentals
Three rose varieties, taught in sequence: Classic, David Austin, Spray. The complete rose education.
Beginner Pipeline
First sugar flowers, lilac, ruscus, spray roses, anemone, wiring 101 — your first six wins, bundled.
Wedding Cake Complete
Bake the cake, mask it, stack it, decorate it, deliver it. Everything for the DIY wedding cake.
Piping Mastery
Lambeth royal icing + buttercream vintage piping. Two techniques, one beautiful skillset.
Trending Now
Anthurium, calla lily, hellebore — the sculptural three booking modern weddings this year.
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A gift from my studio
Petals With Purpose.
Drop your email and I’ll send you my free Japanese Anemone tutorial — the same gentle lesson that’s launched thousands of cake makers’ very first sugar flowers. Plus the occasional studio note when there’s something worth sharing.