I am making a birthday cake for my son and i have made dinosaurs out of Rice krispie treats. I wanted the 3d effect and as usual I went bigger and more complicated than I should have. Its been about 3 years since I have done any cakes and I am re-learning everything. Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

i made a dinosaur cake and for the head and legs and tail i used rice crispies and chocolate and moulded it into shape straight after mixing with the melted chocolate, once it had set i then covered the bits with sugarpaste/fondent, the fondent stuck to the rice crispies really easy no problem and needed no additional ingrediants.

i was wondering if i could melt down mars bars and use that to coat the rice crispies in as something different, haven't tried it yet but will do.

Can you just crumbcoat the RKT? Just a thought as I haven't actually tried making figures out of RKT.

I am going to give it a shot both ways and see what works thank you both for the help

the only rice crispie treat I have covered in fondant was the neck to a guitar cake that I made about a month ago. I "crumb coated" the rice crispie treat neck and the fondant was smooth and stuck nicely.

I made a cottage out of RKT and just used a very thin coat of bc; the fondant stuck just fine! I wanted the bumpy texture of the RKT to show through, which is why I went so thin, but really, it didn't show anyway. I just wouldn't overload it.

Hmmm, I made a large Eagle head out of Rice Krispies that I covered in fondant. I put the fondant directly on the RK. I never even thought about a crumbcoat. The only change I made was that I didn't use butter in my RKT, just water & marshmallows. (I did add a little butter flavoring just in case someone "wanted" to eat it but I didn't let them anyway). I omitted the butter just to be sure that the fondant would stick - a tip I learned here.

We just read an article where the cake decorator used RKT. She had used buttercream to crumb coat the RKT and then put the fondant on top of the buttercream.

Paul & Peter

Hmmm, I made a large Eagle head out of Rice Krispies that I covered in fondant. I put the fondant directly on the RK. I never even thought about a crumbcoat. The only change I made was that I didn't use butter in my RKT, just water & marshmallows. (I did add a little butter flavoring just in case someone "wanted" to eat it but I didn't let them anyway). I omitted the butter just to be sure that the fondant would stick - a tip I learned here.

Wow dessert1st -- I never knew that you could just leave the butter out when making RKT and that it would stick! That's a great tip! Thanks for sharing!

Cylstrial, It worked great. I did need to keep spraying my hands with cooking spray so I didn't stick to the RKT while forming my shape. The Fondant stuck just fine with a little pressue. I was making layers of Eagle feathers, so the bumps of the RKT didn't matter because the next feather layed over it. I think the Buttercream coating that some use would be more for the purpose of a smooth finish to the fondant, rather than it being the "glue".