I need to find a printer who does those prints-on-sugar icing stuff that you lay on the top of the cake and it’s edible, yet photo quality. Does anoyone know of either A) a Cleveland area place that does this or B) an internet site that does it well?
Sheesh, I know what you mean and I can not recall any time I’ve ever seen them carried in a store… I don’t think most print shops would be able to do this; it probably isn’t an often-enough request. I usually find specialty cake stuff at http://www.beryls.com. I’m poking around there now but I don’t see what you’re talking about.
Opal, the Acme chain based out of Akron does it, and there’s one in Parma now. I just called the Parma Acme and talked to the bakery, and the lady said they do it. The number is 440-842-6332.
I thought most Giant Eagles would do this at their bakery, have you checked there?
Opal - If you don’t want th ecake, just the edible photo, this site seems to do that.
StG
Yeah, that Wile E. Coyote cake they did worked out really well. :rolleyes:
A bit of a hijack but I loved this story about a woman who does photo cupcake murals/portraits. She did one (or rather, 5,600) of Obama and Lincoln that was on display at the Capitol in Washington.
NYT story
Blog with lots (and lots and lots!) of pictures of the making of the portrait.
A time-lapse video. (this seems to be down but I’ll leave the link in case it comes back.
The company’s web site. drool
An earlier Barack portrait she did.
Given that actual answer, I just wanted to say that the technology that does this is cool. It’s an inkjet printer where the ink is replaced by food coloring or colored sugar.
But how do you get the cake into the printer?
Hehehe. Acme stores are owned by the Fred Albrecht Grocery Co. which has been serving the Akron area since 1891. I love shopping at Acme and writing checks to Acme, even though they don’t sell jet-powered roller skates or Instant Tornado Pills. They employ lots of local people.
I know that you’re kidding, but in case anyone is wondering, the picture is printed on special edible paper, and the sheet is then deposited on top of the cake.
Apologies to the OP for the hijack, but I just think the technology involved is cool.
Sweet! Thank you very much!
Thanks, I will check that out! (Yeah I can’t have anyone else do the cake–it’s in the contract with the lady doing our wedding cake that there be no cakes by anyone else there at the reception. We are having a traditional wedding cake, and then a secondary cake that I want to have a photo on it.)
Sorry, can’t help with the OP directly as I’m a long way away. But over here in the UK, if you just tap ‘photo cakes’ into a search engine or online trade directory, dozens of links come up. Maybe works where you are?
OpalCat - Looking at the Wolf Camera website, it looks like they provide the photo transfers. You might be able to get it at one of the stores.
StG
I would imagine that any grocery store bakery which does the cakes (which seems to be almost all of them, in my experience) would also be willing to do just the edible-paper overlay. You’d probably have to do some negotiating over the price, but at worst it couldn’t be more than the price of the whole cake.
Sorry, Opal, I thought you wanted the actual sugar paper to do it yourself! Lol.
Mmmmm… HP ink on edible paper! LOL