Cricut Cake

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Cricut Cake Cutting Machine: Overview

A special occasion is coming up soon, and you want to celebrate it by serving a beautiful cake. What are your options?

You could spend hundreds of dollars buying a custom-designed cake from a bakery.

You could spend many hours laboriously cutting shapes from fondant by hand or piping details onto the cake with a pastry bag.

Or you can create your own stunning, custom-decorated cake the easy way, using the Cricut™ Cake cutting machine.

What is Cricut Cake?

Cricut™ Cake is the secret weapon that lets home cake decorators create custom-decorated cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and other confections that look as good as the ones made in a professional bakery – sometimes even better!

What is Cricut Cake? It is an electronic cutting machine that cuts intricate decorative shapes from thin edible materials like fondant, gum paste, frosting sheets, cookie dough, molding chocolate, tortillas, cheese, pie crust, and even some soft candies.

The thousands of designs available for the Cricut Cake include:

• Abstract geometric patterns and borders
• Floral motifs
• Alphabets (these come in handy for putting professional-looking monograms, names, dates, and other words on your cake in a variety of different fonts)
• Designs for birthdays, graduations, weddings, and other special occasions.
• Designs for seasonal holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and the Fourth of July.

The designs come on cartridges that plug into a slot on the machine. Each cartridge includes several dozen different designs. The cartridges available for the Cricut Cake include some designed especially for cake decorating, as well as all the cartridges available from the Cricut library of scrapbooking design cartridges. The Cake Basics cartridge is included when you buy the Cricut Cake machine, and includes a set of 56 basic decorative designs.

Product Features

• Models. There are currently three models of Cricut Cake available:
  • The original model, which comes in red.
  • The Martha Stewart Crafts™ Edition, which has the same functions as the original version, but comes in white.
  • The Cricut Cake Mini is about 10 inches shorter than the original model and slightly shallower, so it takes up less counter space.

• Dimensions. 23” long x 9”deep x 11” high. Weighs 21 pounds. This is a sizable appliance that takes up a fair amount of room on your kitchen counter. If your space is limited, the Cricut Cake Mini might be a better choice.
• Cuts shapes as large as 12” x 24”.  
• All components are food safe. Wipes clean with a damp rag (unplug first for safety.)
• Comes with these accessories: a Cake Basics cartridge, binder to hold your cartridges, 12” x 12” food-safe cutting mat, cleaning guide, power adapter, user manual, blade assembly, and a keypad overlay to protect the keys.
• Can be used with design cartridges produced especially for Cricut Cake, and also with all the cartridges designed for the Cricut scrapbooking paper cutting machines.
• Limited 1-year warranty.

How Cricut Cake Works

Here’s an overview of how to use the Cricut Cake machine:

1. Start with the cutting blade installed and the machine turned on.
2. Choose a design from the library of Cricut design cartridges. Insert the cartridge in the slot. Put the matching keypad overlay on the keypad, and cover it with the keypad protector.
3. Brush the 12” x 12” cutting mat with shortening, then use a rolling pin to roll the material you plan to cut into a thin sheet on the mat. (You can also use readymade frosting sheets from Cricut that don't need to be rolled into shape.)
4. Insert the mat into the machine.
5. Choose the design you want to cut by pressing the appropriate button on the keypad. You can adjust the size of the design, the cutting area, and other variables.
6. Press the “Cut” button to start cutting. Cutting the shapes just takes a couple of minutes.
7. When cutting is finished, gently peel the cut pieces from the cutting mat.
8. The shape is now ready to apply to your cake, cookie, cupcake, or tart.

Who Should Buy the Cricut Cake?

Reviewers who have purchased and used the machine for cake decorating tend to agree that this is a wonderful aid for someone who is serious about cake decorating. The machine and its accessories are a significant investment, and there's a definite learning curve involved in mastering the best way to cut edible materials, even for someone who has quite a bit of experience with other cutting machines such as the Cricut Expression.

But for someone who spends a lot of time and creative energy on cake decorating, the Cricut Cake opens up unlimited new creative possibilities. Not only that, cutting cake decorations by machine makes it easy to create stunning cakes and confections in a much shorter time than ever before.