Custom Food Safe Rubber Stamps

Why yes we DO make custom rubber stamps for our customers who want to be totally food safe when stamping on their food! We would feel irresponsible NOT to!

We've finally gotten around to adding info on pricing to our website. And... we are now adding a little widget on the right of the blog to let you know when we have customers who want to share plate costs. We will tell you how much of a plate is spoken for.

We're hoping this will encourage people to get their artwork into us and all more people to save money on making their own food safe stamps.

P.S. We are back the shop and shipping at normal times!

Custom Monogram for Wedding Cookie

New 4th of July Header / Shop Still Closed

Just popping in to change the header to our 4th of July images. I love how our San Diego teacher Carole B used different colors on the rubber stamped cookies to lend a different feel to repeated images in the bouquet below.

I hope you all have a happy and safe 4th. The shop will re-open on July 9th.

New Rubber Stamps from Museum of Modern Rubber

How can Museum of Modern Rubber have NEW images? Well, when the business was shutting down, over a decade ago, Jane ran a few plates and... put them in a drawer! Not one of the images ever made it into a catalog!

But a few weeks ago, I got a call from a big fancy magazine...who liked the idea of stamping on food and they wanted to be food safe but..."We don't like your stamps. They're too cute!" Well as a reformed "I hate cute stamps stamper"... I know the feeling! They said they were looking for graphic shapes. As luck would have it, I had been moving plates around in the file cabinet and had this set on my mind:

You may recognize the three on the right: Ultra Star, Googie and Boomerang are from the backgrounds line and the 50's line. But they fit with the new series and we are offering them at a group price special for our unmounted food customers because of the magazine!

The new images are: Ovals, Diamond Square, Burst, Solid Circles, Circles, Solid Squares, and Squares. I'm guessing the plate was run when "Shadow Stamping" was in it's heyday as the images fit together so well!

We hope you like the new images and... I have to share... these are NOT the only images from MoMR you haven't seen! If sales are brisk, we may just be motivated to dust off some more of the new old plates and get those images out for you as well! ;-)

REMINDER: The shop is closed due to family illness until July 9th!

Shop Closed til July 9th!

My 90 year old mom is having surgery and needs us with her. When you have a small family business, there's nothing you can do but shut the doors for a bit!

Any orders that come in ...you will be contacted and asked if you still want your items after July 9th. Thanks for your understanding!

We will be checking emails and working on custom food safe designs (not that they can ship before the 9th... just so they CAN ship by the 9th!).

We also have a few blog posts scheduled, so you don't forget about us!

In the meantime... doesn't our friend Carole's Father's Day bouquet ROCK??

We Found a Stamp at Michael's...

I had a customer at a bakery in the great state of Maryland utter these horrible words to me when I phoned her back the other day in response to a query on custom food safe rubber stamps.

I feel it's my bad... I didn't phone her back right away. Our shop is hot and loud. Every thing we handle needs two hands and phone calls don't fit into that when all hands are needed on deck. While an email is usually answered within five minutes up to a few hours, phone calls can take DAYS!

And people are lazy and they want what they want when they want it. And they don't seem to care if they are misinformed as to what is safe on food or even if they get a customer sick! OY!

All rubber is NOT food safe! There are petroleum based products in there that should not come in contact with food. The release agents used to release the rubber from the molds is NOT food safe. Many of the molds still contain asbestos!

Add in that the stamps at most retail mass market craft stores are wood mounted...Wood is not food safe nor is the cushion used to mount the stamps! It BREEDS bacteria! Even our food safe rubber, once mounted on wood, is no longer safe for use on food!

There is so much to know in this area of crafting on food and I wish more bakeries would take the time to learn a little about it before rushing headlong into a project!

If you need food safe rubber, we have hundreds of images readily available. And if you need something custom, we can do that in about two to three weeks. Be smart, be safe and keep your customers alive...it's the right thing to do! 

Holly Dare on When Creativity Knocks

Holly Dare with friends Ana and Megan Arujo on their web show, When Creativity Knocks

The Basic Sugar Cookie

The Sugar cookie is another popular choice for cookie pops. This particular recipe won some cooking contest for our chef (sorry, my memory is foggy!) But the hint of nutmeg is unexpected and lovely!

 

The perfect cookie pop, ready for decorating!

• 1 Cup Butter
• 3/4 Cup Sugar
• 1 Med – Lrg Egg
• 1 Tablespoon Milk or Cream
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla OR ¼ t. Nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 2 Cups Flour

 

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg and then the milk / cream. Add vanilla (if using it). Mix the salt and the nutmeg into the flour. Mix the flour into the batter. Knead and chill for about twenty minutes.

Remove chilled dough. Spray cookie pan with Pam and press cookie dough into individual circles. With fingertips, pull cookie dough away from outer edge of circle toward center; this will help the cookie release. Gently hold the dough with the heel of your hand and slide the cookie stick into cookie about 2”. Pierce cookie with fork several times to aid steam release during baking. Bake at 350◦ until edges are nicely browned.