Putting a Photograph on a Cake

[daniellewiley]

This might have been discussed previously, but I kept getting results about photography OF cakes.

What I want to know about is photography ON cakes. I've seen it done on cheapo grocery store cakes, but would love to play with it on a high quality homemade cake. My daughter's birthday is coming up, and she wants a princess cake. I thought it would be fun to have her actual face on the cake, and then I could decorate around it with a princess dress and crown, etc. etc.

[JasonTrue]

This is done with a slightly altered inkjet printer that uses food-grade inks on an "icing sheet" substrate. I think that is some kind of fondant.

http://www.icingmagic.com/catalog/index.ph...d308ced432f1efe

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/airbrush/kopyjet.htm

http://www.photofrost.com/pf-pro.htm

It seems the cost of supplies is about $2 per sheet including the dye and icing sheets. You might find a baker with this equipment who will print just the icing sheet for you, and charge you some markup on top of that cost.

This might have been discussed previously, but I kept getting results about photography OF cakes.

What I want to know about is photography ON cakes. I've seen it done on cheapo grocery store cakes, but would love to play with it on a high quality homemade cake. My daughter's birthday is coming up, and she wants a princess cake. I thought it would be fun to have her actual face on the cake, and then I could decorate around it with a princess dress and crown, etc. etc.

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[Trishiad]

A friend of mine got the Safeway bakery to print one for her. I don't know how much it cost her but it was cute

[takomabaker]

This might have been discussed previously, but I kept getting results about photography OF cakes.

What I want to know about is photography ON cakes. I've seen it done on cheapo grocery store cakes, but would love to play with it on a high quality homemade cake. My daughter's birthday is coming up, and she wants a princess cake. I thought it would be fun to have her actual face on the cake, and then I could decorate around it with a princess dress and crown, etc. etc.

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I saw the transfers advertised in one of the pastry catalogues -- I want to say Sweet Celebrations. You send them the photo and they do the transfer for you. I don't remember how much it was.

[Wendy DeBord]

I believe that http://www.sugarcraft.com will make custom photo transfers for you. I've always been pleased with their company.

[lapasterie]

I have had this system for many years now. I am on my second printer. The food coloring "inks" are only made for Canon printers. The best company for supplies is Photo frost. They are very helpful. I have done 100's of pictures for cakes, both scanned in photos and other kinds of pictures off the web. It works great on BC but not on WC, too much moisture. I have also used it to mold imprinted choc business cards. It makes cake decorating very simple to do certain things.

[Kris]

I have a Canon i9100 printer that prints the icing sheets used for photos, logos and other artwork that can go on top of a cake.

This particular printer takes 6 edible ink cartridges made by photo frost -cyan, magenta, yellow, black, photo magenta & photo cyan.

It's a popular option with my customers. For some reason, people just love seeing their picture (or pictures of their loved ones) on cakes.

I order my icing sheets and additional cartridges from http://www.icingmagic.com They have free shipping in the continental U.S. and great customer service.

[Fat Guy]

Robert from IcingMagic is actually a member...

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=41641

...if someone sends him a message he might be inspired to post some advice.