Icinginks Ink Your Cake

Decoration ideas can make a big difference to your sales and customer satisfaction. Edible ink can be applied in three ways: transferring through edible sheets, using edible marker, and using poppy paints.

Icinginks presents 5 decoration tips with edible ink, which you can apply depending upon the consumer’s demand.

1.    Use Edible Designing Software

Like Photoshop and similar software for conventional creative designers, there are edible designing software for baking professionals. Experiment with your creativity and get amazing edible images in no time. While some edible suppliers may ask you to pay for the application, Free Edible Image Design Service is available at Icinginks with the many of the bundle edible printer offers. You may upload any image, and edit it the way you want, and then finally get the fine edible print for your yummy food.

2.    Go with a Personalized Theme

Bakery business has become highly competitive. You always find new bakery outlets - online and offline – mushrooming everywhere. Personalization helps you get an edge over the competition and build an incredible identity. Everyone might be using the same edible printer and other supplies, but it’s the way you think and personalize the food item for your customers that makes you stand out in the crowd. Keep in mind personalization factors – age of the target audience, occasion, gender, etc., when you create your edible design.

3.    Choose the Right Edible Sheet

Blank, colored, glossy, flexible and so on – edible sheets are available in all variants. You should use them as per their attributes to get the desired results. For example, if the cake decoration demands, doing a lace work around the border, it’s better to apply the flexible sheet by dampening it with a few drops of water. Likewise, glossy sheets are perfect for imparting the dazzling effect to your food item. Check different types of edible sheets.

4.    Use Edible Marker on a Dry Hard Surface

Edible marker is a great way to get that perfect sharpness in your image. It makes the job easier as well. However, avoid using it on a highly-moistened and hard surface. It may not make out the color or come out smoothly. If your design demands use of edible marker in multiple shades, let the first color set well before adding another color to it so they don’t mix. Icinginks offers edible pens with double tips and standard tip. Successful bakery professionals adopt both as both have their specific uses.

5.    Mix Your Poppy Paint Homogeneously

Poppy paint is a variant of edible ink that you can mix like water-color in a palette and then apply it in your edible design. Unlike water-color, here the cake paint is dissolved in food-grade alcohol, which dissolves the ink well and helps it dry fast – some dry even in few seconds while others may take a few minutes. Use separate brushes for different color shades to avoid mixing of the paint.

Celebrate baking and become a celebrated bakery professional! We’ll be back soon with more edible design ideas.

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Not just can you shape your fondant the way you want but also complement the design with the right colors. Here is how to do it smartly. There are two ways: transferring image from an edible sheet, or applying poppy paints directly on to its surface.

Whatever you choose, you need to get the fondant ready in the first place.

Making the fondant well

The fondant serves as the foundation of your cake decoration; hence, it must be prepared well using the right ingredients. There are two types of fondant, viz., poured and rolled. You need the latter to decorate it with paint. Glucose sugar, water and corn syrup are the usual ingredients but to make a pliable dough, add a trace of gelatin and/or glycerine. Create a non-sticky dough that will allow the paint to set well. Leave the dough for 24 hours. So, the fondant is ready, but this time you want to give your fondant a distinct look! Sounds great! Move to the next step.

Using Edible Sheets

This is the easiest and fastest way to decorate your fondant. Print your edible icing sheets with the image you want, remove the backing sheet from it, and apply it to your fondant. Pat down the sheet nicely leaving no air trapped inside it. The edible ink gets soaked on the food, and you get the image printed on the fondant.

Using Poppy Paints

Get the edible paint-ready

Take out your artist palette and brush to create and hold the edible paint colors. Use the prescribed thinner or alcohol provided to dilute the color paste. Shake the bottle of the edible color well. Sometimes, you may need a thin scoop to take out the paint from the bottle. Get all the colors placed in different sections of the palette, and add thinner or alcohol you have as solvent.

Stir well until you get a consistent coloring solution. Remember, you need different types of paintbrushes (keep one for each color) to start painting your fondant. The right combinations of paintbrushes help you obtain the desired thickness and perfectly decorate your cake. 

Paint the fondant surface

Fondant painting doesn’t require any expertise. All you need to be creative and patient. First outline the design of your art – cartoon, flower, or any other artwork matching the theme of your celebration. Outlining helps you to have a clear idea as what you want to get done. This also helps you with the selection of color. Fill up the different colors. While you do so, keep stirring the color on the palette to avoid coagulation or maintain uniform consistency.

Maintain a gap between layers

If you are adopting a complex fondant decoration, allow the previous layer of painting some time to dry and set. Usually, poppy paints are known for their quick-drying feature, so you do not need multiple sittings to complete the fondant painting. Based on the ingredients used by your edible supplier, the drying time of poppy paints vary as follows:

• Poppy Paint - 10-30 seconds
• Poppy Paint Pearlescents - 30-60 seconds
• Poppy Paint Super Shine - 5-10 minutes

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If you want to create your cake or any other confectionary item for a family or social celebration, but think you can’t make it impressive, you could be wrong! Spare a few minutes to learn the decoration idea using edible ink and derive the confidence you need.

1.    Get Everything at One Place

From edible food printer to edible ink printer sheet to edible ink itself – you need all to print pictures you want on your cake or food. When you invest in edible supplies, you should be a little smart. Do not get tempted by lucrative offer. Instead, buy what you need. Going with a combo printer offer that helps you get all at the best price is always a wise thing to do rather than ordering edible supplies separately.

2.    Select Cake or Food Ingredients Wisely

There are a lot of creative ideas you can experiment with your edible ink. However, to make sure that the ink doesn’t get bloated or smeared on your cake surface, pay heed to the ingredients you use in creating it, particularly the topper where you are going to spend most of your effort. A dry or less moistened surface is ideal. It cuts the time of food decoration as the ink dries fast and you can go easily with a multi-layer decoration.

3.    Get the Desired Edible Image

Use your edible printer to get the image of your choice on the frosting sheet. Choose a blank sheet or a sparkling or glitzy sheet to match the theme of decoration. Using chocolate transfer sheet is also an alternative if you have a chocolate cake to decorate. From nature to pop-culture to entertainment world, there are many sources to draw inspiration from. Internet is there to make your job easier. Get your imagination transferred to the frosting sheets.

There is nothing to worry even if you are doing it for the first time. Place the frosting sheets in your edible printer just like normal paper, and print any image you desire, using Icinginks edible ink. Once the printing is over, let the frosting sheet dry for least 6 - 12 minutes.

4.    Transfer the Edible Image to the Cake

Remove the plastic backing from the sheet before you place it on your cake or other food item. Pat it down gently on the food surface to make sure no air bubbles get trapped underneath the sheet. Air bubbles may distort the image. Leave the edible sheet for about 20 to 30 minutes on the food. This will help the edible image to get absorbed into the food and became a part of it.

5.    Be Gentle while Removing the Sheet from Backing

Frosting sheets or icing sheets absorb moistures either from the environment or the ink you use, which make it difficult to remove them from the plastic backing. Dry your sheet at least 10 - 15 minutes. If you have hard time removing the backing cover, place the printed edible image in freezer for 30 minutes. The removal will be super easy.

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