So I tink I was being smart here.... maybe 
I wanted to make some cookies for my sister who is the big grad this year and I saw a great stamp at michaels. So I used it with food colouring on my fondant. I don't know if anyone has tried it before but I though I was being pretty smart. 
Here are some pictures, sorry the are kinda sucky but it was taken with my phone.
Those look great! I'll have to find a 'Happy Birthday,' Get Well Soon, and Congratulations! stamp because I just hate writing on cookies. I stink at it!
That is such a great idea! I will definately have to remember that. 
Always wondered if that will work. Thanks for testing it out.
It's such a great idea...so pretty....I had seen these in a magazine...
http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=0fa1608f8532f010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=ace1fa5661cee010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=collage_weddings_wedding-favor-food_p6&lastnavigatedchannel=ace1fa5661cee010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD
thanks for sharing the tip will use on my cake fondant
I saw fondant stamping at an ices meeting. I know show it to my students
One thing they told us is to be careful because the foam between the wood and the stamp is not food safe. We were instructed to buy stamps that are not mounted and then mount them to acrylic.....
I thinned out the food colouring with a little vodka and then put it on a paper towel (so high-tech...lol) and stamped away. I didn't know that about the back no being food safe. Where do you find un-mounted stamps?
I saw fondant stamping at an ices meeting. I know show it to my students
One thing they told us is to be careful because the foam between the wood and the stamp is not food safe. We were instructed to buy stamps that are not mounted and then mount them to acrylic.....
That is interesting!
Thank you for this idea It may not be new BUT I had never thought to do it! Awesome to you for sharing!!
you can order food safe stamps from www.sweetstampen.com.
She also states that wood mounted stamps are not food safe.
I saw some awesome stamps at Michaels and they were on sale, but most of them had been "USED"..ugh...I wasn't comfortable with them so I got mine from Holly at sweet stampen..they don't cost very much..I have gotten some stamps for like.4.50 cents!
Once again.... ALL rubber is NOT food safe. Rubber is made from petroleum and should not be in contact with food. In addition, it is coated with a fine ground glass to aid in removal from the molds during manufacturing... again, should not come in contact with food. And finally, wood blocks and cushion cannot be sterilized and...should never come in contact with food.
Sweet Stampen uses a special FOOD SAFE, FDA approved type of rubber. We don't use cushion or wood blocks. Our food color is low sugar and will not ruin a stamp pad.
Please bakers, be careful out there... and don't sue me if you get someone sick!
Holly
Sweet Stampen
I have thrown rubber stamps in a dishwasher basket and ran them on the hot cycle. Since fondant is considered a safe food I don't think I'd worry much about getting anyone sick - unless you have just pounded flat a chicken breast with it. And it is really hard for the wood or foam mount to come into contact with the fondant when you are trying to lightly make a design with food coloring. Martha, I'm sure, would have certainly investigated the use of rubber stamps on fondant before printing it.
Your cookies cake out darling.
I use rubber stamps on fondant all the time. However, I work in emergency medicine and asked one of our physicians if it is safe. He brought up a good point. He said that some people are allergic to rubber. If a shard from the stamp were to get in the food, it could make someone very ill. With that said, I still use the stamps, but I make sure everyone knows that rubber was used before they eat it.
I also use rubber stamps directly on cookies. Here is an example of some stamps I used, then went over the design in royal icing.
MacsMom,
Actually Martha didn't do her homework and we personally have turned her into the FDA before! The history: She had Chef Laure'l fly out to be on her show. Laure'l asked for a non - compete clause. Martha's "People" complained and eventually signed. When M met Laure'l, with no introduction, she made a snide remark, filmed the segment and left. NO thank you or sod off or anything. (People are not paid to be on her show. They pay out of pocket to be there.) The segment never aired.
As Laure'l 1st t.v. producer, I can assure you it was not HER fault. She's amazing on camera and probably outshone M.
A year later, they put some bimbo baker friend of M's on there. I immediately wrote asking questions about their rubber. The FDA FOUND our rubber after Laure'l was arrested by them... yes folks arrested for using rubber!!! THIS IS SERIOUS!!
The little twit immediately emailed her lawyer husband to the tune of "Oh my God, what do I do???" only both were so dumb, I was cc'd on EVERY email. I knew what they were going to say before they said it! They pulled all links to them off M's website!
Guys (& dolls ; } ), We've been doing this for years and we do it the right way. We've been sued for people getting sick, food poisoning etc. We won because it was NOT our rubber! Why dick around with this??? Not if it's your livelihood!???! Or even if it's "just my family"... they're OK to make sick?
As to cushion - rubber can leach. It's not that the wood and cushion never come in contact with the food. The rubber does. AND the cushion which is where the sterilization problem comes in often can and does come into contact with the food color.
FAIRYTALE, Your physician doesn't know anything about the chemical make up of rubber. One of our teachers works in an ER. One of her Docs DID happen to know about rubber and blew a gasket when he found out how her cookies were made - until she explained that we had FDA approval.
Again everyone, PLEASE be careful!
FAIRYTALE, Your physician doesn't know anything about the chemical make up of rubber. One of our teachers works in an ER. One of her Docs DID happen to know about rubber and blew a gasket when he found out how her cookies were made - until she explained that we had FDA approval.
I don't understand your comment. My physician said NOT to use rubber and I know for a fact a rubber shard can make you sick. With all due respect, I believe he absolutely knows what he is talking about.
Well, since we run a " business" we would rather be SAFE than SORRY!
Our insurance is up to date, so there is no problem with paying someone's medical bills for anything unforseen, but can I really live with myself knowing that someone became deathly ill over something that I could prevent?
I know my boss would just simply die!!
so untill proven otherwise, I will get all my FOOD STAMPS (lol) from Holly and her company.
And anyway, why would I want something I got at a craft shop that has been over handled by God knows who or what?? That just grosses me out!
There is no need to flame anyone for their opinion, and, if there wasn't an issue about FOOD GRADE RUBBER, I'm sure that Sweet Stampen could be making boatloads of money, instead of being a responsible company that makes sure all the rubber they use IS food grade.
Right?? lol
FAIRYTALE, Your physician doesn't know anything about the chemical make up of rubber. One of our teachers works in an ER. One of her Docs DID happen to know about rubber and blew a gasket when he found out how her cookies were made - until she explained that we had FDA approval.
I don't understand your comment. My physician said NOT to use rubber and I know for a fact a rubber shard can make you sick. With all due respect, I believe he absolutely knows what he is talking about.
FAIRYTALE, What I mean by that is rubber RARELY shards and if it does...you can probably SEE it. That's NOT the problem with rubber. I would be far more concerned with the petrol that may leach once the rubber is wet OR the dust that rubber is coated with (that gets baked into it!). It is made of glass. I work with glass as a hobby; From what I've seen...THAT would be my major issue.
But, I didn't mean to insult your Doc...it's just sharding is not really an issue.
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And while we are on the subject of rubber leaching... let me address my favorite No-No of all. "Oh you can use any rubber stamp...just wash it with BLEACH!"
PLEASE DO NOT do this. This is yet another way to screw up food safety all in the name of taking a shortcut. Again, rubber leaches!!! Let's say you wash that commercial stamp with bleach. Let it dry. Stamp it into color (reactivating bleach residue) and stamp it. And your customer tastes??? That's right, BLEACH! In addition, it breaks down the rubber, shortening the life span!
Please don't wash ANY stamp in bleach just to use it on food.
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Eggshells, Thanks for the kind words. There are months we struggle to keep it going. If it weren't for restaurant clients, we would've shut the doors. Which brings up another point. If restaurant chains seek us out to do it the right way, why doesn't everyone else?
It is really frustrating that "professional" bakers are often the ones taking a shortcut that would put their customers at risk.
Anyway, thanks everyone for your questions and viewpoints. Have a great weekend an be safe!
Holly
Holly,
I understand your concern and your protection for us and you are obviously passionate about the subject with the words you use to describe people ("twit", "bimbo"). Super pearl dust is also not FDA approved and we use that, anyway, too. I was assuming that perhaps, since you sell the stamps yourself, you may have been trying to persuade us to buy your stamps. We have a much higher risk of getting someone sick from the cake than from the fondant, whether we use super pearl dust or rubber stamps or not.
Stacie
Personally, I tuned Holly out once she described people this way. Very disrepectful and hard for me to respect her comments. I'm all for passion, but I'm more for being respectful of others whether I agree with them or not. I appreciate Holly's insight and her knowledge, but she won't be getting my business w/ a disrespectful attitude.
Thanks.
Getting offended by the descriptions of people on this website is ridiculous. All the profanity and name calling that goes on on this website should taken with a grain of salt. It is a way of people expressing what they are feeling through written communication. To express how you feel about someone is hard to do if you are not face to face talking to people. If we removed all the posts that had derogatory descriptions and profanity from this website a majority of the posts probably would be gone. If we look back over all the posts we have left I'm sure there is at least one that can be put into question. So to be totally offended by comments is totally ridiculous since I'm sure that everyone has described people in a less than flattering manner at one time or another in their lives!!!
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