Icing sheets made of paper and edible ink can be printed with intricate designs and photos to decorate cakes and cupcakes. They can be printed at home using a printer with edible ink cartridges. Icing sheets do not affect the flavor of the cake and can be used on top of fondant or icing.
Frosting, also commonly called icing, is typically the creamy or fluffy filling added to baked goods, such as cakes and cupcakes. Printed icing sheets are designed to lay flat on top of a layer of icing. They are made of paper and edible inks which are mostly made with ingredients like corn starch and some sugars. These sheets allow you to use photos and detailed images to decorate a cake. Many commercial bakeries have offered frosting sheets for years, but now home bakers can print them from some home computer printers.
Most decorative icing techniques involve piping the icing through specially shaped tips that create lines, stars, dots, and other designs. Some types of icing can be dried very hard to create specially shaped pieces and designs used to decorate cakes. Fondant, which is a type of cake topping that is usually rolled up and spread over the cake, gives a smooth surface rather than a shaped or fluffy one, for example. Icing sheets allow for much more detailed images to be placed on a cake than can be achieved with basic icing and fondant, including intricate designs and fairly clear photographs. Photo cakes are a popular item in many bakeries who take pictures of customers, scan them into their computers and print them out as icing sheets.
People who don’t want to order a photo cake sometimes have the option of ordering just the icing sheet to put on a homemade cake. These are usually ordered in a similar way, providing a photo or some other image to be printed on the edible sheet. Some computer printers that people normally use to print documents and photos can also be used to print icing sheets at home. You must purchase edible paper along with edible ink cartridges that are suitable for your specific printer.
Frosting sheets generally don’t have a distinct flavor, so they shouldn’t interfere with the flavor of the cake and frosting. These sheets can be placed on top of fluffy icing that is being smoothed over or on top of fondant that is covered in a layer of icing to help the sheet stay in place. Some sort of icing is needed for flavor and to help the icing sheet blend into the cake.
Cupcake icing can also be decorated with icing sheets. The designs can be printed and carefully cut out to place on top of the cupcakes. Photos, text, drawings and other images can be added to enhance the design. When using a home printer with edible paper and ink, almost any design that can be created in a graphics program can be used on a sheet of ice to create a one-of-a-kind cake decoration.
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