INNOVATION IN CAKE DESIGN Abang Mohammad Azlan

bin Abg. Amir A129331

INTRODUCTION... •Fews years back, our cakes look like

this:

•Simple design with fruits and icing as decoration on the top.

•The shape is always round, square or rectangle.

•Nowadays, due to creativity and innovation, our cakes look like this:

•Our cakes look like real objects and they are 100% edible.

PRINTING REAL PICTURE ON TOP OF THE CAKE

• Nowadays, we can actually print our own photo on the top of our birthday or wedding cake.

• Printing a photograph to use on top of a cake is not a difficult job.

• All we need is the equipment such as printer, edible inks and paper.

Frosting Sheets/Edible paper Edible

Inks

Printer

• These equipment are available at some cake decorating supply shops and even you can order them through internet websites.

• These materials can be used in many different printer models.

• But bear in mind these materials should not be installed in a printer that has been used to print with regular ink as traces of ink could remain in the printer and end up on top of your cake.

• Below is an example:

HOW TO PRINT PHOTOS TO PUT ON CAKE?

1. Purchase a new printer that will be dedicated to printing on edible paper with edible inks.

2. Place the edible ink cartridges into the printer in the same way you would install regular ink cartridges.

3. Load the printer with edible paper. This paper is sometimes referred to as icing sheets or frosting sheets.

4. Print your desired picture onto the edible paper. Let the picture sit for a few minutes after printing to prevent smudging.

5. Frost the cake with any type of frosting. This is necessary to adhere the printed photograph to the cake.

6. Trim the picture with scissors to make it fit on top of the cake, if necessary.

7. Peel the photograph carefully away from the backing and place the photograph onto the cake. Press it down gently so that it sticks to the frosting.

8. Pipe a border around the photograph with frosting to hide the edges of the edible paper.

Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_5796988_print-photos-put-cakes.html

CONCLUSION...

• Innovation and creativity has brought changes to our cake design.

•We can print photos on edible paper to put on top of our cake.

•Our cakes no longer look simple and they look like real objects.

•They are 100% edible.