Both children and adults unquestionably love sweets. Especially during the current times, when we are struggling with pandemics and crises, confectionery products are a break from everyday life for us. This is certainly for a good reason! Above all, what better way to lift our mood than with a favorite cookie with a fun food print on it?

Innovative confectionery decorations

The food printer is a fast way to make unique confectionery decorations. If you decide to decorate your sweets with edible inks dedicated to it, you will certainly significantly increase their value in a short time! This, in turn, will subsequently give a quick boost to your profits, even during the ongoing crisis.

In addition, a confectionery plotter will come in handy when decorating cakes and creating confectionery decorations on the surface of smaller products. Thanks to the plotter you can easily decorate pastries for the sweet table, for example, monoportions, macarons, banquets, or gingerbread cookies.

Discover 4 great ideas on how direct food printing can easily add value to your confectionery products!

Chocolate with edible print

Chocolate is a product that both children and adults love. As a result, chocolate bars are very often the gift of choice for minor and major occasions. Personalized chocolate with inscriptions or unique graphics is a particularly popular choice lately. Now you don’t have to invest in ready-made, custom-created wrappers! But what does it mean?

Instead of buying ready-made products, start decorating chocolate bars in no time while maintaining high quality! Decorating chocolate bars with a confectionery plotter is quick and easy. For instance, within an hour you can create up to 120 prints on their surface. It is noteworthy that printing does not at all take away the confectioners’ handiwork. In fact, quite the opposite! You can not only make additional candy decorations when decorating chocolate. You can also use a graphics tablet and create the graphics for printing yourself.

The Kakemann cookie with marzipan decoration

The Kakemann is a well-liked product, sold in confectioneries and ordered for the sweet table at Christmas time. This type of cookie is cheap to prepare and for this reason, it is sometimes sold by weight. You can easily decorate these sweets with festive, regional, or themed edible prints. Best of all, you can create up to 200 ready-to-sell products in just one hour.

Kakemenn cookies enriched with unique confectionery decorations will surely draw the attention of your customers. Moreover, because of the eye-catching decoration, their value will increase, and additionally, you will get the possibility to sell cookies with edible print by piece. Decorating cookies with food printing does not increase production costs. Quite the contrary, it will allow you to increase your profits!

French and Italian macarons with personalized edible prints

Macarons are a premium product by themselves. Their unique taste attracts many sweets enthusiasts. For this reason, macarons are often bought as gifts. Thanks to the use of a confectionery plotter you will gain a number of possibilities regarding the creation of personalized confectionery decorations.

Macarons in the form of special occasion pastries with personalized prints are perfect for a sweet buffet for a wedding, communion party or a business banquet. Thanks to the use of a plotter, it will take you only a moment and will for sure increase the value of the final product by a few NOK.

Marzipan muffins

If you add to these simple and delicious baked goods a marzipan disc decorated with a promotional print, you will definitely attract the attention of your customers. Depending on the size, you can print from 200 to even 500 of these decorations in one hour.

You can sell muffins with marzipan decorations all year round. They can be used both as party sweets with festive confectionery decorations and as customized pastries with edible prints. This will have an immediate effect on your profits – after all, a unique, personalized muffin can cost several NOK more!

Confectionery decorations with IMAGO Printer

Product	Decorating time of 100 products	PPP before decorating	PPP after decorating	Profit from the sale of 100 products without edible print	Profit from the sale of 100 products with edible print	Gain from printing
Chocolate bar	45 minutes	30 NOK	50 NOK	3000 NOK	5000 NOK	2000 NOK
Kakemann (8 cm high)	30 minutes	10 NOK	25 NOK	1000 NOK	2500 NOK	1500 NOK
Macaron	10 minutes	5 NOK	7,5 NOK	500 NOK	750 NOK	250 NOK
Muffin with marcepan	15 minutes	15 NOK	37 NOK	1500 NOK	3700 NOK	2200 NOK

Confectionery plotter – profitability of the investment

As you can now see, using direct printing to decorate small products can make a big difference in the growth and earnings of your confectionery business. That is why decorating a large number of products can be done quickly and inexpensively, while increasing the value of the cake or cupcake decorated with a food print that you sell.

The price of the final product depends on the location of the confectionery business, but it will always be higher than it was before decorating. The confectionery machine earns money very quickly. You will pay off one month’s worth after only a few hours of work. Therefore the rest of the month will be pure profit for you!