Aside from inking my toddlers feet and letting her walk on the cake, how would you get the look of baby footprints? I have a baby shower cake coming up and they want me to match the invitations, which are lots of pastel colored baby footprints all over. I actually considered the old side of the hand trick with fingerprint toes.
Depending on what look you want, you could do like I did for the tiered baby shower cake that is in my photos with the bootys on top. I colored the fondant different pastels, made a template for the foot without the toes, rolled the fondant a little thicker than usual so I could mold the instep on the foot, used my template to cut out the feet and then rolled varying sized balls for the toes and flatten them. I hope that makes sense. The CC member who inspired my cake told me that's how she did it. I couldn't find a cutter the size I wanted so this worked great.
I hope that helps,
HeatherMari
If you want to just print footprints, how about using a mini foot-shaped cookie cutter as a stamp. Either fill the inside of the cutter with cookie dough or fondant and leave it in there so it become like a rubber stamp and use that. Or else, just dip the cutter and print for just the outline of a foot shape. www.thecookiecuttershop.com has some mini cookie cutters that are 1.75" long, go to their website and look under odds and ends cookie cutters.
Hope this is of some help.
Barbara
This is how to get 'real' looking baby footprints. Make your hand into a fist and press the side of your hand against the fondant (the side with the little finger on - not the thumb) then Use your thumb to imprint the big toe - your fingers to do the little toes. I promise this will look really like real baby feet - if your hand is too big use a toddlers!
What a coincidence - I'm finishing up a footprint shower cake for the weekend shower, too! I found a good foot picture and copied it different sizes on card stock. I plan to cut thoe out and try to use them as a template. Darn, I wish I had that little foot cookie cutter. We're (4 year old DGD and I) are making little pink and white candy mold feet for nibbling on at the shower. I successfully used some of these candies to impress footprints in the sand on a beach cake last spring. These invitations are sourrounded by silver footprints and the printing is done in pink and silver, so I'm going to try to make some of the little white candies silver with lustre dust and make a path down the cake ("from heaven to our hearts"in some such wording.) I'd love to see what you decide to do. PAT
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