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Using your vinyl plotter to decorate cakes??

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Not just using it for a stencil... but I came across a blog today (while I was supposed to be drafting an agreement, i might add) for a cake company that uses a Cricut for cutting fondant, gumpaste, modeling chocolate. 

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!  That's all I needed to see -- and now I want to run home, adjust my blade, and cut food.  I baked 145 cupcakes a few weeks ago because I wanted to try new frostings... imagine what the hell I can do with this?:)

Here's the link.... http://www.cuttingedgecakeart.com/blog.php#03012010]http://www.cuttingedgecakeart.com/blog.php#03012010"]http://www.cuttingedgecakeart.com/blog.php#03012010

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LOL    :) I think I will stick to cookie cutters,from the dollar store.  before I run food through my $2800  money making machine.   LOL  

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There is NO WAY you could pay me enough to put any type of food through my cutter.

That is one brave soul who decided to put food through a cutter.

But, someone, somewhere will invent a cutter that is exclusively for food.

Quick!!! Someone patent that idea!!!!!

LMAO

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There's no end to what these machine can do..... just not in mine either.  :)

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far out - a carrier sheet is all they used - . . . No I'm not doing it to my machine wither but still cool

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They get more for those cakes than we make with a 50 yd roll of vinyl. :)

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They get more for those cakes than we make with a 50 yd roll of vinyl. :)

You're not kidding!!  My sister's wedding cake was $2,000 (granted, it fed 300, but still...)

I was thinking of buying a spare "cheap" one to try it out on... and Cricut is going to sell one just for cakes, but I don't want to buy cartridges, so we'll see.

I've have my LP24 for a few years -- I may test it out using SugarVeil icing instead of fondant --- and if it doesn't work or jams it up, I'll get myself another plotter... maybe even upgrade.  I have a very large cupcake business, and I'm thinking I can expand my products.  I don't do vehicle or signs -- just wallwords, heat applied stuff, etc -- and I'm quite certain I can make more than I do on tshirts...

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I was thinking of buying a spare "cheap" one to try it out on... and Cricut is going to sell one just for cakes, but I don't want to buy cartridges, so we'll see.

Several people have used their cricut expression.  They move the rollers to the side.  I use the program from Craft Edge and haven't bought a cartridge in over a year.

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Several people have used their cricut expression.  They move the rollers to the side.  I use the program from Craft Edge and haven't bought a cartridge in over a year.

Thanks Linda!  It's worth a shot -- I have a HUGE clientele of new brides/new moms.... and to be able to send them edible cake decor so they can affix to their own cakes would be a big seller.

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