ok my wife is baking some cakes tonight and i was on the 3d

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ok my wife is baking some cakes tonight and i was on the 3d printer forum. While browsing what people are doing i thought of what people have done. Printing chocolate and sugar… for baking sweet goods it’s totally possible with hotends and heated beds. Someone needs to uses a syringe pump to pump dough and print a pastry while relying on “carry over heat” to fuse layers together and print some tasty masterpieces #3dprinting #3dfoodprinting #3dfoodprint

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My heated bed, being a silicone mat on aluminum, is able to reach close to 600F/200C. I could probably bake cookies on it if I wanted.

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I’m very interested in the possibility to print chocolat, there is a printer: https://chocedge.com/ but is very too expensive. Someone already tried to build a chocolate “extruder?” To be mounted on a common 3D printer?

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http://www.fabathome.org/ - a little pricey as well, but with a bigger build envelope for food printing. Capable of two different materials (foods) using the dual syringe head.

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@Stefano_Pavanello Yes they have : http://reprap.org/wiki/Chocolate_Extrusion I imagine the greatest challenge is to cool the chocolate to solid as its out of the extruder…

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Yea printers already are out there for sugar, for chocolate I believe you would have to build the printer inside a giant refrigerator to work. the melting temperature is just to close to the operating temperature otherwise. although you might be able to build a room temp one IF in printed very slowly,

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Thanks @Tim_Rastall and @John_Hogbin … In fact I think about how to melt the chocolate, but doesn’t think about the fact it can melt slowly at ambient temperature… So a “Frosted Bed” instead of “Heated Bed” :slight_smile: mmm… Interesting :slight_smile:

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Everyone got stuck on chocolate I was talking more along the lines of a cake. The batter or dough would enter on one side if the extruder get partially baked while exiting and laid out on the heated bed . The heated bed would of course bake the bottom so as the cake would be printed upward the hot end would have to get hotter

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@Jim_Squirrel I plan to experiment with dough and frosting with the @BotBQ extruder soon! My wife is big on baking and she wants to work with fondant printing as well.