Did you think rubber stamping is only for paper? How about instead of creating handmade cards, what about stamping on chocolate? Our friend and business coach, John Sanpietro, found this great article by Susan Rice. Since chocolate is one of the Stamp Slave's and my favorite things, (and since we love finding new rubber stamping ideas), we wanted to share with you…just in time for those Valentine's Day gift ideas!
Give a hand stamped romantic treat to your sweetheart by stamping extra special chocolates. You will need some cooking oil, store bought chocolates, little paper liners for individual chocolates to sit in and small clear acrylic rubber stamps. Experiment with different chocolate brands. It may be easiest to begin on solid chocolates.
1. Place a small amount of vegetable oil on a paper towel and allow it to absorb. Take your choice of new acrylic rubber stamps and dab it in the oil. It is important that you use new rubber stamps for this as the finished product will be consumed and you don't want any ink coming off the stamps onto the chocolate.
2. Heat the surface of the chocolate with a heat embossing tool.
3. Place the oiled clear rubber stamp (without a stamping block) into the melted chocolate. Refrigerate the chocolate with the clear stamp still in the chocolate. Complete your set of chocolates using different rubber stamp images.
4. Once the chocolate has solidified, bring it out of the fridge and gently peel the stamp from the surface of the chocolate.
5. Package your personalized, unique stamped chocolates in a box. Add a little colored tissue paper if you like. Be sure to clean your stamps with soapy water as you don't want any traces of chocolate or oil left especially if you plan on converting your clear stamps over for use on paper crafts.
6. Make a coordinating Valentines Day card to go along with your gift of heart.
That is it! It is easy and it is yummy! Rubber stamping with clear stamps on food is a completely unique way to say Happy Valentines Day!
OTHER YUMMY STAMPED TREAT IDEAS
• Stamp a favorite image in a plain sugar cookie before baking.
• Stamp a flower into fondant, cut it out and decorate cakes or other goodies with it.
• Write a special message in a chocolate bar with this technique for an unexpected surprise.
Use your imagination in the kitchen, stamp on anything that will hold an image. Remember, if it doesn't work – you might have to eat it! No matter how unbelievable, enjoy rubber stamping fabulous sweet treats!
Thanks to Susan Rice for that idea! If you have any creative valentines day ideas that you'd like to share, send me an email or call me!
This is a very nice idea! This is my first time to come across with rubber stamping on chocolate. It would be more fun eating them.
Yes, you’re sure right on that one! Thanks for taking a look at the blog!