Potato Starch, Water, Sunflower Oil

As of 1st April 2025 there will be a small ingredient change to all wafer paper, with the addition of lecithin (emulsifier). The new ingredients are as follows:

Potato Starch, Water, Sunflower Oil, Emulsifier: lecithin.

The additional ingredient will be indicated on the label on all products with this change.

Storage:

Store flat in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight

To Use:

Feed Wafer Paper into your Edible Printer via the REAR FEED only. Load exactly the same way as regular printing paper and print your designs using PAPER as the media type and NORMAL/DRAFT or BEST quality. We recommend printing on the SMOOTH side for the best quality prints. Store in an airtight food-safe sealable bag or container once dry until ready to use.

Wafer Paper Crafting:

Wafer Paper can be cut or folded into cake decorations - use either Wafer Paper Conditioner or steam to carefully moisten and soften the wafer paper before folding to avoid breakage.

Cutting Wafer Paper:

EPS stock a range of cutters for cutting out Wafer Paper into your desired edible topper shapes, including circle toppers and more unique and intricate shapes. Browse our recommended Cutting Tools for cutting out Wafer Paper toppers and shapes. Always ensure your Cutting Tools are kept clean and for edible use only and use a protective food-safe Cutting Mat if using bladed tools.

Storage After Printing:

To ensure your edible images and toppers remain fresh and in best condition, store as soon as possible in a grip-seal bag. Use a board-backed envelope for shipping to ensure icing sheets do not crack during transit. See our range of great value Packaging Supplies for edible images.

Wafer Paper (also known as rice paper or potato starch paper) is the most natural type of edible paper, comprised of only potato starch, vegetable oil and water. Despite its short list of ingredients, Wafer Paper is an extremely  robust and versatile product primarily used for edible printing. Unlike Icing Sheets, Wafer Paper does not require a plastic backing sheet so can be fed directly into your edible printer, just like regular printing paper!

Wafer Paper has a range of uses in the food-industry with both sweet and savoury applications, from cake toppers to edible labels for breads and pies, as well as drink and cocktail toppers too! Even if you don’t own an edible printer, Wafer Paper is an excellent medium for creating edible decorations such as edible flowers, fans, and sails for cakes.

At EPS, we stock a range of thicknesses of Wafer Paper, which all have different qualities and uses:

• Wafer Paper Fine (0.27-0.3mm) – our finest type of Wafer paper, can be folded and manipulated to create intricate edible decorations and is the perfect choice for making Wafer Paper Flowers. While this type of edible paper can be printed with an edible paper, due to being so fine and more translucent, the print resolution is the lowest. Wafer Paper Fine has a rough/textured side and a smooth side.

• Wafer Paper (0.35-0.4mm) – our ‘standard’ Wafer Paper, an ideal middle ground. This thickness of wafer paper is a better choice for edible printing, as the print quality is significantly improved in comparison to the finer type, but it is still more flexible than card, so can still be used for folding and crafting into fans and sails for cake decorating. Wafer Paper has a rough/textured side and a smooth side, and we recommend printing on the smooth side for the best print-quality. Wafer paper can be used for creating printed edible toppers for cakes, bakes, desserts and foam-topped drinks and cocktails.

• Wafer Card (0.6mm) – our thicker ‘premium’ wafer card is comprised of two pieces of Wafer Paper laminated together, meaning Wafer Card is smooth on both sides and more opaque. This results in a much higher print resolution when printed with edible ink, so it is a great choice for more cost-effective edible toppers. Wafer Card can also be used to create drinks toppers as it will last longer in liquid.

The most popular Wafer Paper and Card is our unsweetened variety, as it is virtually tasteless so does not affect the taste of the food applied to. EPS also stock a sweetened version of our standard Wafer Paper and Wafer Card (not available in Fine) for those who prefer a subtle vanilla taste. Like our Icing Sheets, Wafer Paper is available in a range of sizes.

Wafer Paper can be cut with a range of EPS Cutting Tools but as it does not have a plastic-backing sheet, is not available pre-cut.