How Is This Printing Done On Cookies?
Baking By Katskakes Updated 2 Mar 2007 , 4:20pm by ladyonzlake
I would guess an edible image too. It's too neat to be handdrawn. I guess a stencil with an airbrush might work too?
I'd put money on an edible image... sometimes when I'm making pics the margins cut off... looks like something I'd do (the mistake I mean 
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It's beautiful though... an idea to file away!
There's a printing system that prints directly on top of the cookie...not sure if it does cakes. I saw it deomonstrated once on cookies, so that's all I am sure about. Anyway, it's WAY expensive. Thousands of dollars. But, it sure makes for a beautiful presentation.
The information about the cookies states "our sophisticated printing technology allows us to customize each cookie with the names of the couple and the date of the wedding in a delicate script font".
Whoops. I missed that part!
I saw an episode of the carol divall show that she had someone on that stamped on cookies. Unless you cut or ordered the stamp, you probably couldn't do the whole name and date, but you could do the initial that way. She just dipped a regular plastic stamp with no backing in a gel food coloring, dabbed it off and stamped the cookie.
You could probably use a stencil and paint it on or if you have an airbrush machine you could use that?
Jacqui
The information about the cookies states "our sophisticated printing technology allows us to customize each cookie with the names of the couple and the date of the wedding in a delicate script font".
there is a bakery in my hometown that does these kinds of cookies now...they've always been on the forefront of new decorating technology in my town...you know, they were the first ones to do edible images (not the frosting sheet kind, the one that prints directly on the cake so it looks kind of airbrushed...)
I just read on that site that the cookies have a shelf life of 3 months...guess those don't taste all that great...lol
beautiful cakes and cookies and everything else. WOW! Lots of pretty stuff!
actually the printing systems are less expensive now, you can buy one direct from KopyKake for around $700 which includes the edible inks plus a starter pack of edible images too. Those cakes appear to use the business card size frosting sheet just on that lowest layer and doing monograms in picture and gif programs is very easy also.
You can use a new <never used> Canon printer with the kopykake software and frosting sheets, at a much lesser cost, around $450 for all as a start-up. Frosting sheets come $25 to a pack, I use standard cake sheet sizes for our out-sized cookies and the 3" round for standard circle cookies. We just did our logo on the business card size and it turned out relatively well, but you do need some trial and error for the more complicated the image the lower resolution on the edible image.
I'll post some photos soon, we're busy with Easter samples right now, but if you know your way around using Print Shop or Photoshop then you can set up designs very easily.
There's a printing system that prints directly on top of the cookie...not sure if it does cakes. I saw it deomonstrated once on cookies, so that's all I am sure about. Anyway, it's WAY expensive. Thousands of dollars. But, it sure makes for a beautiful presentation.
whoops, this was the quote i wanted to include in my previous post...
actually the printing systems are less expensive now, you can buy one direct from KopyKake for around $700 which includes the edible inks plus a starter pack of edible images too. Those cakes appear to use the business card size frosting sheet just on that lowest layer and doing monograms in picture and gif programs is very easy also.
You can use a new <never used> Canon printer with the kopykake software and frosting sheets, at a much lesser cost, around $450 for all as a start-up. Frosting sheets come $25 to a pack, I use standard cake sheet sizes for our out-sized cookies and the 3" round for standard circle cookies.
The subject cookies appear to be done with the system that doesn't use sheets...prints right on the cookie. I'd love to have that little toy, but it's WAY out of range for a hobbyist.
oh I see you mean the projection systems and yes, they are very expensive but I'm going to try printing a monogram on a business card to apply to a tiered cake cookie tomorrow just to see, I find the black ink not as appetizing visually so I'd like to try other colors also.
Do you think you could use a paint brush or a caligraphy brush and draw it on with food coloring?
It can be done without the expensive machine. You can hand paint them on with food color markers. I've done it on fondant and Antonia's icing (only after it's hardened). examples on fondant are on my bee cookie photos.
Your cookies are adorable! Do your paint your pictures on free hand?
Jacqui
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