I would like to try and make my own impression mats. Has anyone ever done this? Any tips and tricks out there on how it could be done?

Thanks
Sabbrina

I have not tried it myself, but somewhere I read that you can use a glue gun to make the pattern and press that into your frosting. I don't remember what kind of medium that they used to put the glue on?

Wanted to add: I have also heard of using piping gel and letting that dry and then using that to press into the frosting...

I too would like information on it. I bought the mat but I don't know if you should cut it to fit around the cake or what. Someone said they bought the diamond stamp and just pressed on the cake.

neat idea - I'll have to try it - thanks

There was a thread on here about this a little while back, I don't know where it is right now, but they talked about using a plastic tablecloth, and plastic placemat like you get at a dollar store.

I think that was in the thread about "unusual things turned into cake decorating tools" deijha.........I made an impression mat using sculpey clay, I needed something to resemble a stone wall...so I rolled out a hunk of clay and pushed little pebbles into it and then pulled them out, leaving an imprint, then I baked the clay per the directions and once it was done it's hard like a piece of plastic....and I just pushed it down on my fondant and it worked perfectly!!!! then I heard that the sculpey clay is not considered food safe (even though it says non-toxic once it's baked)....some say that you shouldn't actually touch it to food ...so I just put a sheet of plastic wrap over it and it still works just as well, and no worries about poisoning anyone.....I also formed one chunk of clay into a small rectangle...meant to look like a brick and then baked it and used it to stamp into another piece of clay making a brick wall...and I use this in the same way. It's very inexpensive...I think I paid .79 for the clay on sale at A.C. Moore and they work wonderfully......I'll bet you could roll out a nice sized sheet of the clay and use a diamond stamp or any stamp for that matter....and just repeat the pattern and make virtually any kind of mat you want!!!! These molds are reuseable and I just throw them in the top rack of my dishwasher and they're fine.

I'd like to know how to do it on crusted buttercream.

I'm off to hunt for that thread, thanks KH

I got one from Michaels that was made to be for a school project..it is suppose to be the Adobe Roof (red orange) of a Mission (Church)...I used it for Fondant.. The results look like almost basket weave.