Cake Decorating Made Easy with edible ink

If you have become a fan of the cake competition shows, you know how complicated and time consuming making a designer, custom cake. Some come away from watching these shows with the impression that only takes the hour-long show for the production of these cakes, but in reality, many cakes take more than 30 hours to make. When it comes to implementation of designer touches, there are a few exceptions to the rule. A way to the impression that you have spent countless hours decorating a cake is to use a designer or print a photo that was printed with edible ink on a Cherry leaf.

Let's say a mother wanted her daughter wedding cake but knew only some basic cake decorating techniques. She could step up a notch with the help of the daughter wedding stationery as a design inspiration and scanning of the design in the printer. The printer would then spitting a cherry sheet with an edible design. That design can then be applied directly on the sides of the cake, cut into shapes with scissors or a punch or fondant or gum paste decorations which applied to just a hint of the draft in the cake.

You are certainly not limited to scanning. Each photo that is already on your computer or downloaded and download each print you can be sent to the printer. Individual photos can be used to top a cake or integrate in picture frames to decorate the cake.

Account the design skills a step further, you can each design you print out on the icing sheet and run it by an electronic cutting machine. The machine can be used for more difficult designs with small, accurate cuts or to cleanly cut out letters in some fonts. The electronic cutting machine comes with some preset patterns and other cartridges are available, scrolls, to do repetitive patterns that would take forever to cut by hand, numbers, etc.

Even if you want to design your own hand-drawn but have to make multiples of the order to put on the cake, making scanning and printing out as much as you need is so much faster and convenient than individually create them on the cake. You can hand paint a design on paper, scanning and the icing sheet will reveal to change your brush strokes, making it look like you are the hand painted design on the cake.

Edible ink doesn't just make the cake decorator life; they open up so many advanced design possibilities that the Decorator can never have tried with other media.

Theresa Happe is a cake decorator who enjoys working with edible ink and whipped cream sheets if you want to make custom designs for cakes.