10 April 2012
A 3D printer that issues sweets, cakes, cheese and even icing instead of paper could soon be on every cook's wish list.
The world's first commercially available 3D food printer, on sale in the US for about £2,000, uses a syringe to print chocolate, or any other material, on to a base. It then prints layer after layer on top, building up a 3D image.
Maker Essential Dynamics of New York say it can create chocolates or cupcakes in two minutes and could even print out a chocolate 3D scan of a human head. Using other materials it could print everything from jewellery to a new car part.
