Pastry Dymo

You can still get Dymotape machines. I use mine all the time. The simple principle employed by the device of embossing letters into a strip of plastic has now been taken up in the world of cooking equipment with the launch of the Pastry Dymo Machine.

The pastry for the machine comes prepacked with the coiled strip being protected by a thin grease proof paper backing. As it can't be stored for an indefinite period of time, various lengths are available to reduce wastage.

Pastry Dymo replaces the roll of plastic tape with the one described made of pastry. It's a slightly larger machine to cope with the extra bulk of the pastry roll, but otherwise works in the same manner, with the pastry advancing as each letter is stamped unto its surface.

The pastry strip emerges from the machine in exactly the same manner as that of the plastic strip with the selected words and letters stamped into its surface. These can then be added to cakes or buns to create various baked messages and greetings, or dipped in soup like elongated bread sticks.