Innovation: Print your chocolate!

A few years ago, nobody would have thought this would be possible: food printing. Printed pizzas, custom pasta shapes and personalized chocolate can be made.

A pioneering 3D printing company, 3D Systems, has recently launched the CocoJet, a chocolate 3D printer developed in collaboration with The Hershey Company, a global confectioner. Ideal for the baker or chocolatier, the CocoJet prints custom designs in dark, milk, or white melted chocolate.

As traditional 3D printers produce plastic objects, CocoJet heats and squeezes chocolates instead of plastic filaments. One of the challenges for a 3D chocolate printer is temperature dependency, as it is very important to control the heating and cooling cycles accurately.

As chocolate is temperature dependent, it is very important to control the heating and cooling cycles accurately.

You can read more on this feature on our latest issue of World Bakers Digital magazine!