The 3D-printed cheesecake Jonathan Blutinger / Columbia Engineering
A 3D-printing lab has figured out how to automate the assembly and cooking of a seven-ingredient cheesecake 鈥 and the result doesn’t taste like a conventional dessert.
鈥淲hen you bite into it, you kind of feel the flavours hit you in different waves,鈥 says at Columbia University in New York. 鈥淎nd I think that’s a function of the layering inside of the actual structure.鈥
Blutinger and his colleagues grabbed seven ingredients from local grocery stores: graham crackers, peanut butter, strawberry jam, Nutella, banana puree, cherry syrup and frosting. They put anything…


