My Business Coach found this great article and sent it to me…I wanted to share. Enjoy!
by Susan Rice
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 clear acrylic 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 clear
rubber 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!
