3D-printed cake made from 7 different pastes and finished by a laser

A 3D-printing laboratory has figured retired however to automate the assembly and cooking of a seven-ingredient cheesecake – and the effect doesn’t sensation similar a accepted dessert.

“When you wound into it, you benignant of consciousness the flavours deed you successful antithetic waves,” says Jonathan Blutinger astatine Columbia University successful New York. “And I deliberation that’s a relation of the layering wrong of the existent structure.”

Blutinger and his colleagues grabbed 7 ingredients from section market stores: graham crackers, peanut butter, strawberry jam, Nutella, banana puree, cherry syrup and …