Printing on sugar mass – confectionery plotter vs. regular food printer
Candy icing or fondant is a combination of powdered sugar, glucose and gelatin dissolved in water. Due to its plasticity properties, it is used to cover cakes, cookies and to make figurines, toppers and other decorative elements for cakes. It is most often used for decorating cakes in the English style. Its special properties allow to achieve a perfectly smooth surface of the cake. Sugar paste is one of the most friendly bases for printing. The ink penetrates its structure, thanks to which the printout is permanent and of the highest quality.
Why do I need a candy plotter when I have a wafer printer?
A wafer printer allows you to print a small sheet of sugar paste. Such a product needs to be very thin, which usually involves buying expensive pre-made “sheets” of fondant. Using a candy plotter to apply graphics to this substrate gives you many more options. You do not have to buy special sheets because the device will print on any thick piece, even up to 15 cm thick! And what is the best it allows to print directly on the cake covered with sugar paste or cookies covered with this product.
How to create decorations on a cake covered with sugar mass?
The biggest advantage of confectionery plotters is the ability to print directly on the surface of the cake. This gives you an endless variety of decorations to choose from, from lettering, elegant frames and flowers to fairy tale graphics and full color photos. Undoubtedly, the use of such a plotter makes the work easier, and in the hands of a confectioner it can be a tool to create a real work of art. An interesting option is to use the print to apply a sketch drawing to the top surface of the cake thus saving time when creating handmade decorations. Thanks to the food printer for direct printing you can also prepare shadows for decorating cakes – there is no need to buy a special dark mass, and the printout is perfectly black.
Figurines, toppers and other decorations made of sugar paste
Artistic cakes often contain a lot of interesting decorations. Also for such decorations, you can use food printing to make your artwork more interesting. With the use of a sugar plotter, you can paint the sugar paste in different kinds of ornaments or floral patterns in full color and then make decorative elements out of it or cover the side surface of the cake. Printing on sugar paste can also be used to create the details needed to finish the figures – for example, McQueen’s eyes, lights, and stickers. Printing on thicker sugar paste, on the other hand, makes it easier and quicker to create toppers that you can stick a stick into right away.
Gingerbread and cookies printed on plastic
Direct printing on gingerbread and sugar-coated cookies can be used to make manual work faster and easier, and to diversify and increase production on a larger scale. The development of gingerbread business with the use of confectionery plotter gives a chance to introduce new interesting products to the wedding industry, sweet gifts and the wider business. More about printing on gingerbread in the article on our blog.
Summary
Using a confectionery plotter to create decorations from sugar paste is undoubtedly the best solution. It gives a lot of possibilities, accelerates work and makes composing small works of art easier. Imago FALCO printer is perfect for preparing such decorations. Due to its small size it will satisfy both people creating decorations on gingerbread cookies and decorative elements for cakes.
