Photo Cakes
Photo cakes are becoming increasingly
popular nowadays. While many of us never knew about this technology,
it's provided by many cake shops from Monginis, Brownie Point to The
Chocolate Room.
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How is photo cake made?
1 would wonder how is the edible
photograph actually put on the cake. Well, this is actually because
of 2 food materials – edible icing paper and food coloring
products. The scanned image is printed on the icing paper which is
made from rice/potato/cornstarch and the food coloring is used as ink
to print the picture on the cake.
How to order a photo cake?
A picture cake has to be ordered at
most 3 days prior to the day you want the cake to be ready. Some of
them allow 2 days and some even 1 day. But cake shops do not usually
agree for 1 day time. So if you are planning for a photo cake, well,
plan in much advance.
The photograph to be printed on the
cake has to be given as a soft copy - by email/pen drive etc. Better
the quality of the picture, better would be the print on the cake.
Hence make sure the photograph you are giving to the cake shop is of
the best quality.
Different cake shops offer different
flavors for photocakes. It could be blackforest, dutch chocolate
cake, pineapple cake etc. Also some of the shops provide choice for
the shape of the cake – rectangular, round, heart shape etc.
Cost for photocakes usually range
between Rs. 700 and Rs. 1500 for 1 Kg. Photo cakes weight starts from
1Kg.
Some personal experience:
I had to order 2 photo cakes in the
last month for celebrating 2 wedding occasions in the family.
1st one was from The
Chocolate Room, Kandivali, Mumbai. We needed the cake on the next day
of ordering, so we were quite worried about which cake shop would do
that customization for us within 1 day. After contacting multiple
cake shops, The Chocolate Room agreed to deliver the cake in 1 day.
We emailed them the picture and visited the store to choose the cake
flavor and shape. The Chocolate Room offered heart shape and
rectangular shaped photocakes in flavors of Blackforest and
Chocolate. After discussions and suggestions from the seller, we
settled on a 1.5Kg heart shaped blackforest cake. It costed us Rs.
1800 - much more than what other cake shops charged. We were advised
that the picture be framed with white icing for greater impact of
the photograph. With big holes in our pockets we walked out of the
store. On the next day, we got the cake at the time decided.
On the 2nd occasion, we
ordered a photo cake from Monginis, Mulund, Mumbai. This time we
called the cake shop 3 days prior to the occasion day. As it was not
possible for us to visit the store, the flavor, shape, weight
selection etc was done on the phone. Monginis offers photo cakes in
only rectangular shape and flavors of dutch chocolate and Swiss
chocolate. And charged Rs. 800 for 1 Kg cake. So we ordered a 1 Kg
rectangular shaped Swiss Chocolate cake. Payment was done through
online bank transfer. And I collected the cake from the shop on the
day of the occasion.
Beautiful, delicious cakes add to the merriment and joy of any occasion, especially in birthdays and weddings. Find on The Local Caterers a list of renowned cake shops who offer a wide range of choices for small events as well as special deliveries.
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