The invention relates to a kitchen appliance, especially a food printer, and a method for printing food in 2- or 3- dimensional shapes. The food printer for making 2- or 3- dimentional shapes comprising a housing (10), an opening (11) for printable food (33) and binder (31, 32), a control unit (23), and a printer head (22), wherein the printer head (22) prints small drops of the printable food (33) and the binder (31, 32) while moving to build the 2- or 3-dimentional shape.