Patent ID: 6903841

Claim:
A method for decorating a bakery product, comprising: providing a bakery product to be decorated; providing a printable edible medium to be applied to the bakery product; inserting the printable edible medium into a printer modified by removing at least one rotating element from a printing path in the printer to facilitate the travel of the edible medium along the printing path; selecting between at least two printing options, said print options including i) retrieving a scanned image and ii) retrieving a digital image from an alternate image source containing a plurality of digital images; when the option of retrieving a scanned image is selected, pressing a single button to automatically scan and print the image onto said edible medium; when the option of retrieving a digital image from the alternate image source is selected, selecting an image from the plurality of images and printing the selected image on the edible medium; and applying the image-bearing edible medium to the bakery product.