Cake decorating made easy with edible inks

If you become a fan of cake competition shows, you know how complex and time-consuming the process is to create a designer cake, custom. Some come away from watching these shows with the impression that it only takes an hour show to produce these cakes, but in fact, many cakes take over 30 hours to create. When it comes to application designer touches, there are a few exceptions to the rule. One way to give the impression that you have spent countless hours decorating a cake is to use a designer print or photo printed in edible ink on a sheet of icing.

Suppose a MOM wanted to make her daughter's wedding cake, but knew only some basic cake decorating techniques. She could step it up a notch by using stationery daughter's wedding as a design inspiration and scan the drawing to the printer. The printer will then spit out an icing sheet with an edible design. That design could then be directly applied on the sides of the cake, cut into shapes with scissors or a fist or practiced in fondant or gum paste decorations that will only bring a hint of design in the iceberg.

Surely you are not limited to scanning. Each photo already on your computer or downloaded and each print you download can be sent to the printer. Personal photos can be used for home a cake or to incorporate to frames to decorate the cake.

Taking design skills a step further, you can get any design, you can print the sheet of icing and run through a computerized cutting machine. The machine can be used for more difficult designs, with small, accurate cuts or Cut letters, in some fonts. Electronic cutting machine comes with a pre-programmed standards and other cartridges are available, scroll, repeating patterns that would take forever to cut by hand, numbers, etc.

Even if you want to create your own hand-drawn design but need to create multiples of to put on the cake, scan and print as many need is so much faster and more convenient than individual creating them on the cake. You can hand paint a design on paper, scan it and icing sheet will uncover your touches, making it look like your hand-painted design on the cake.

Edible inks not only to make life easier for the cake decorator; opens so many possibilities for advanced design decorator may have never tried by other means.

Theresa Happe is a cake decorator who enjoys working with edible inks and icing sheets to create custom designs for cakes.