Word seems to be spreading that I make cakes as this was for a co-worker of one of my boyfriend’s friends, someone that I do not know. Lol.

She wanted a kayak themed cake for her daughter’s 15th birthday. My original idea was for the kayak to be the cake until she sent me pictures of the kayak. Racing kayaks are very skinny and with the dimensions too hard to make it a cake unless it was like 3 feet long. So instead I did my best to model one out of gumpaste for on a simple 9×12″ cake. I don’t know the correct terms for everything but the handle part of the paddle is two toothpicks glued together then painted black and the ends of it are gumpaste.

To incorporate the aquatic club’s logo, I used yellow fondant to cover the cake board because the logo is black on yellow.

Almost immediately after the cake was delivered (by my boyfriend) I received a very nice email to say she was (thankfully) thrilled with it.