Hello, I found some cakes about a month ago (not on CC) and the decorations looked as though they were drawn on. This was done on buttercream icing. Is there such a thing as printing on edible transfer paper with edible ink using my printer at home? I have the picture, can I attach it? If I can, it won't post in the gallaries will it. I'll wait for an answer before I attach. I hope I explained it well with out a picture. Thanks Theresa

Attaching a picture in the forum won't add it to the gallery. You can print edible images at home but you'll need to purchase a compatible Canon printer that will be used only with edible inks.

Do you know if canon is the only printer that can do this? Where do you get edible ink?

Here is part of the image, I think I am asking about the right thing

This could be done using edible images (the ribbon might even be done using edible images). If you hadn't said it was done on buttercream, I'd think it was painted on fondant. I've seen painting on buttercream but it never comes out that precise. Do you have a larger pic?

Yes...only certain Canon printers are compatible with the edible ink cartridges. I purchase my ink through www.kopykake.com

Yeah I have a Larger picture, Thanks for you help and feel free to add more after you see the picture

I was hoping to have a large enough picture that I could see seams but I still can't tell for sure. If you wanted to recreate this cake, you could use edible images to do it though. If I were to do it this way, I'd come back with black buttercream and do the outlining. That would hide any seams that would show if you were to use frosting/icing sheets. Cute cake!

Hiya ,
You can order edible inks and the special paper from decopac.com they also have the printers too and the scanner if you want to scan pics into the printer. They also have ready made images also. Hope that helps a little.

Cute cake! Must be for twins.....so cute! I hope you figure out how to do this one!

(Are you positive that's not fondant?)

In any case, I'm thinking that maybe they airbrushed over stencils.

..that is a cute cake but it doesn't appear to be an edible image to me either! It looks as though it might be airbrushed!

Looks like fondant and then airbrushed on.

Cute cake...post picture when you finish.

i guess it wouldn't be possible to put a bct on a round cake...right?? looks like one though??

has anyone ever done a bct on the side of a square cake?