Cake picture question

Factual Questions
1

So we’re sitting around the lunchroom today, and one of the women I eat lunch with told us about the cake at her future daughter-in-law’s bridal shower. It was one of those photo cakes where you bring in a photograph and they make the cake decoration from that.

My question is, how do they make those? I know they’re made of sugar, but how do they make the actual picture?

Thanks,

Robin

2

No so much differently than you print a digital picture at home. The printing is done on thin, edible rice paper with food color dyes. Pretty nifty idea, huh?

3

The secret is…edible ink! Yum!

4

The photo you give them is scanned into a computer, and it’s then air-sprayed onto the cake. I don’t know what the “ink” is made of, but it’s obviously something edible.

If I find a photo of the machine that does it, I’ll post it.

5

Here’s a link of a place that sells printing supplies for making photo cakes. The printers look just like regular ink jet printers, but they spray the ink onto a sheet of icing, which is then applied to the top of the cake. Nifty:

http://www.icingimages.com/index.htm

6

Homer: mmmmmmm… Ink!

7

Thanks. You guys are the best!

Robin