Hand-piped lettering is the cleaner option. Short messages, names, dates — we pipe them in royal icing or buttercream depending on the cake finish. Choose a font from our standard list (we have classic script, modern sans, and Indic script for Hindi or Tamil names) or describe the vibe and we'll match it.
Edible photo printing uses food-safe ink on rice paper or fondant sheets. The print sits on top of the cake's finish. Resolution depends on your source photo — phone photos at 1080p print well at 4-inch or smaller. Anything larger needs a higher-resolution source.
We steer customers away from edible prints when: the photo has a lot of dark detail (loses contrast), the cake has a textured finish underneath (looks lumpy through the rice paper), or the print is intended to be the only decoration (looks isolated without surrounding piping or florals).
What works well: a circular edible portrait set into a piped frame, with the name lettered below. Treats the print as a feature rather than the entire cake.
For messages in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi or other Indic scripts, send us the exact text — we have piping templates and edible-print fonts that handle the script correctly.