I am making an elmo cake for my great newphews birthday this weekend. The elmo is made out of Rice Krispies and I made the arms seperate from the body. When I push the dowels in the body and try to cover them in the royal icing, they won't stay on. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Maybe using some royal icing as glue, letting it dry, then decorating.
Maybe using some royal icing as glue, letting it dry, then decorating.
Yes, use an extra thick royal icing as a glue. Use string, rope or tape to hold until dry(24 hrs?).
Or call it Elmo de Milo. 
Can you try to compress the RKT of the body more? Sounds like you need a firmer body to hold the dowels... Maybe a last resort, though, since you probably don't want to start again!!! Good luck.
I do not know if you have time to redo Elmo but someone lovely person here on CC suggested crushing the rice crispy cereal to dust then making the actual RKT. I did this for my Elmo and I shaped his arms and body separate then let them dry over night. He was hard as a rock (not being gross!) the next day and I was able to dowel the arms into the body. It was so hard I actually had to drive a metal dowel in first to make the hole. His body parts did not come off once they were in place. HTH
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