Hey Everyone,
I need everyone's best advice on using impression mats, I have a 3 tier tower cake coming up and will need to make stone impressions on each tier. I bought a mat that's the pasticy type material (I know that's not the best way to describe it) but it's not a mat material like the wilton ones and other out there. It's big enough for each of my tiers but here's my dilemma, I use Jennifer Dontz amazing white chocolate fondant recipe, and it does tend to stretch a bit when I pick it up from the mat, so my stone impressions stretch and somewhat get lost. I tried rolling on the mat itself so I could just flip it onto the cake, and it would just not go, I couldn't get it to roll out. I'm scared to make my impressions when it's on the cake since I don't have a deep freezer (I can't even fit my cakes in my reg. freezer, LONG STORY) and can't get my icing as stiff to feel comfortable enough that I won't mush it once the fondant is added to the cake.
Any advice would be DEEPLY appreciated!
Thanks!
An idea..... can you try mixing some wilton fondant in with your reg fondant? I know most people don't like the taste of wilton, but you may can play around with mixing it in your fondant to see how much you can add to make it not stretch as much, without the wilton taste taking over...... hope this helps 
An idea..... can you try mixing some wilton fondant in with your reg fondant? I know most people don't like the taste of wilton, but you may can play around with mixing it in your fondant to see how much you can add to make it not stretch as much, without the wilton taste taking over...... hope this helps
Thanks for the reply Kelli,
I just worry about ruining the white chocolate taste w/the wilton taste (yuck!), but it's a definite idea if I can come up w/anything else.
ANYONE else out there have a solution on impression mats and details stretching as you pick it up to cover cake?
not sure if this will work, roll out your fondant on a mat, then place the stone impression mat, pattern side down on the top of the fondant, flip over so that the stone impression mat is at the bottom remove the other mat from the top, then let the fondant settle for a few minutes before lifting the fondant still on the mat and gently flip over directly onto your cake.
not sure if this will work, roll out your fondant on a mat, then place the stone , pattern side down on the top of the fondant, flip over so that the stone is at the bottom remove the other mat from the top, then let the fondant settle for a few minutes before lifting the fondant still on the mat and gently flip over directly onto your cake.
I will definitely try this...thanks for the idea. I'll let you know how it goes.
how did it go?
Well, it went OK. I e-mailed Jennifer Dontz herself to ask her advice using the mat on her fondant recipe and she mentioned to try it while it was on the cake, and so very carefully and terrified I did. You can see the impressions, but not w/a lot of depth, and the middle tier I used a different mat (more like bricks) and it came out like dots rather than bricks. I wasn't very thrilled w/the way the impressions came out but the cake overall looks nice and the mom and birthday girl were very happy.
Thanks to everyone who offered advice, I just hope I can find a better solution for the future.
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