The Sugar Lab’s Sweet Prints

By on June 5th, 2013 in Usage

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A pair of graduate students from Los Angeles created The Sugar Lab, a new business producing highly creative 3D printed sugar cake toppers. 
 
The two, Kyle and Liz, embarked on their journey by attempting to 3D print a cake for a friend. After much experimentation, they produced a cake topper made from 3D printed sugar. The result was so impressive they were encouraged to transform the idea into a real business, The Sugar Lab. 
 
Their business is custom; you’ll have to work with them to develop your idea, which doesn’t necessarily have to be a cake topper. They have also created “centerpieces, chandeliers, cupcake toppers, sugar cubes, pie-crust-lattice, grapefruit sweeteners” and likely more. 
 
3D printed sugar isn’t new; we posted about early experiments in sugar printing many years ago. But with any good idea, it takes an entrepreneurs (or two in this case) to build a business around it. 
 

By Kerry Stevenson

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has written over 8,000 stories on 3D printing at Fabbaloo since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of 3D printing across the world. So far, it seems to be working!