What Are The Unique Things You Use To Imprint On Fondant?
Decorating By melmar02 Updated 22 Oct 2009 , 9:16pm by bobwonderbuns
I'm making a blanket with a quilted look tonight and a thought came to mind - What do I have around the house that I could use to make different imprints on fondant?
I see them use square dowels on tv. I'm just curious what else everyone else uses besides the Wilton product and what effects you achieved.
Thanks!
I have a scroll work candle holder I've used. I'm interested to hear what other people can suggest!
If you have any corrugated carboard, you can cover it with saran wrap and then use that to make a nice impression of lines. I used that for my cupcake-themed cake in my photos.
I used real lace for the impression on some long fondant gloves. Then I luster dusted them to highlight the pattern and they looked like real lace IMO anyhow..LOL You can crinkle up foil and smooth it back out to make a neat fabric like pattern. You can crinkle the foil up several ways for various effects.
I've used silicone potholders...I have one that looks like tire tread and one with flowers. I have a placemat that makes a leather pattern. I use the clear plastic scrapbook stamps all the time, especially on fondant-covered cake boards. You can use a pattern tracing wheel to make a stitched look. A drinking straw or hollow lollipop stick will make different sized dots.
I have used suncatchers (washed of course) on fondant cakes. Maybe not all that unusual, but I use patchwork cutters also.
The wheel from your kids LEGO makes a fantastic "zipper impression"
Ventilator tube ( have to find a nurse/doctor friend to grab it for you 
- don't take it off granny in the nursing home LOL) makes a great smocking roller
The plexiglass sheeting (acrylic) that they use for the recessed fluorescent lighting - makes great grid/honeycomb like patterns.[/list]
Ive got pots and pots full of little scrap booking stamps, theres a store near me that sells them DIRT cheap (there never used on scrapbooking btw lol, just sugarpaste. Ive got all different kinds, christmas themed, easter themed, halloween, they make fantastic little effects round the cake and on the board
If you have young kids at home Play-Doh has some pretty cool stuff. Oh, well, even if you don't have young kids the stuff is still cool. I heard someone say that fondant is like Play-Doh for adults.
If you have young kids at home Play-Doh has some pretty cool stuff. Oh, well, even if you don't have young kids the stuff is still cool. I heard someone say that fondant is like Play-Doh for adults.
Oh, yeah! I don't know what I am going to do when my kids are gone and I am buying playdough toys! 
I have an extruder from playdough that you slide a ruler on and get different shapes. I like the stars. Never been used on playdough even though they say you "can" eat the stuff. 
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i have used many strange things for effects on fondant like, the cuff of a sock to make the pattern on a christmas stocking cake. i use lots of clay impession mats that you can not get in fondant mats and i also use a lot of clay modeling tools as it is just the same as modeling fondant.i have also got a straw hat in my caking tool box to get a woven effect.and i scunch up foil to get different effects.i also like others have said use stamps and scrapbooking bits that have only been used on fondant.
I have used a lot of my daughter's play kitchen stuff for impressions, alot of the utensils cups, etc have a raised design that works really well for fondant. plus the fake food lot of times has neat designs on them
Totally agree - my daughter has little fake pieces of lettuce - that thing makes an awesome veiner LOL.
I needed wood-grain so I rolled out my fondant, covered it in saran wrap, took it outside, put it up on the fence and rolled over it a couple of times, worked perfect. My DH watched me the whole time, puzzled look on his face, when I came back inside and unwrapped it, he came over looked at it and just shook his head.
I needed wood-grain so I rolled out my fondant, covered it in saran wrap, took it outside, put it up on the fence and rolled over it a couple of times, worked perfect. My DH watched me the whole time, puzzled look on his face, when I came back inside and unwrapped it, he came over looked at it and just shook his head.
That's cool!
I use a strip of the plastic sheeting you adhere to the clear glass panes around your front door to make them less see-through.
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