Edible Printing 101 (Part 1)

Adding an Edible Printer to our bakery has been one of our greatest investments.  It is truly amazing what you can add to your cakes and cupcakes by printing out an edible image. 

We did a video a couple of years ago (a year…I don’t remember!) on edible printing basics, and since we have recieved steady questions and comments on that video, we thought it would be a great video to make with a more in-depth focus.

We have turned the new video idea into a series, and I will have two subsequent posts up on the idea. In the first video, I show you how to set up your printer and what you need as far as ink, and frosting sheets.  In the second video, I show you how to layout a design using Icing Image‘s iidesign program (which is an online software subscription you can buy).  And in the third video, I show you how to incorporate the previous two videos together to create a butterfly cake using edible frosting sheets. 

Here are a couple of misconceptions/questions that I often get regarding the idea of edible printing:

• Yes, you eat the “paper”.  It is frosting. 
• No, you cannot use a printer that has run regular ink through it. 
• Yes, it’s, like, a, like, picture, that you, like, eat?
• So someone has to eat the person’s head?