How To Print Photos Onto Cakes

jessica83 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , seven:48pm

I am still quite new to cake decorating and I take someone that wants a motion picture of their daughter on the cake. I was wondering how to put photos on a cake? I do non have a style to put them on edible paper and was wondering if I could just adhere them somehow? How do I do this? Any assistance would be appreciated!!!

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kattyann Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 8:04pm

I put photos on cakes by covering them with plastic wrap. I put the pic confront down and pull the wrap tightly across the back and sometimes tape it. The only problem I ever have see is having it wrinkle. Keep checking the face of the photo and conform the wrap as needed, going horizntal and so vertical. I employ to use the origianal photo, now I scan it and employ the scanned film. Never had any real problems. Just put an icing border around it.

michel30014 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 8:06pm

Sure can!!! Have the picture show printed, then cut it out leaving a bit of white space around it. Use laminating sheets which you tin purchase at Walmart. I actually found a ringlet of laminate for $5 at Walmart last year. I still take plenty left. Just brand sure after yous laminate you lot use your fingernail or thumbnail to "seal" effectually the edges. To put it on the cake, accept a chip of buttercream icing and spread along the back of the laminated picture and adhere to the cake. I only piped along the edges of the laminate to embrace and assistance the moving picture stay down. This is what I did to the following cakes!

michel30014 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , viii:10pm

Lamentable, here'southward the other cake I had a laminated pic on.

michel30014 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 8:16pm

audree Posted 29 Jun 2010 , viii:18pm

I have also used clear contact paper. Exist sure to cover forepart and dorsum.

pmarks0 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , viii:19pm

Check your local grocery store. If they have the ability to print onto edible paper for their own cakes, many of them will print for you for a fee. Where I am, in Canada, many of the Sobey's grocery stores will do it for $ten. I just had to bring the image I wanted to them equally a file on a USB stick.

soledad Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 8:45pm

I did a graduation block for my son and I did not know of anyone who could do an edible impress!... and then I took my son'southward picture to Staples Part Supply Shop and had it laminated. So that is not so expensive glue 4 pictures in a sheet of paper and have that sheet of newspaper laminated that way is cheaper, afterwards you cut it individually. Yous can see the block in my photos.
CIAO

jessica83 Posted 29 Jun 2010 , ix:09pm

Thanks for all your assistance, I'll try it!

StephW Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 9:17pm

Simply an FYI... if the pic is copyrighted (ie. from a professional person photographer) - the grocery store may decline your asking for an edible image. Merely it's worth the asking. Some will nonetheless practice it.. especially if there is not copyright symbol on the front.

luddroth Posted 29 Jun 2010 , 9:29pm

Ane other thought: in my photos at that place is a "Hairspray" cake with characters from the movie. I just downloaded them from the internet, printed them on regular printer newspaper, and so fabricated gumpaste plaques the same size. When the gumpaste was dry, I attached the photos to the gumpaste plaques with a thin layer of corn syrup. The gumpaste plaques are not eaten anyway, and then it'south ok to stick the regular paper on them--information technology doesn't touch on annihilation that will be eaten.

Source: https://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/686279/can-you-put-regular-pictures-on-a-cake-somehow

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