I'm doing an Americana themed birthday cake and wanted to incorporate a haybale on it. So...cake covered in fondant, rice krispies covered in fondant? Any thoughts on how to make it look like hay?

how big does the hay bale need to be?

i made the ones on these cakes w/ a cupcake and then used the grass tip and put gold icing on them.

I just reread your post.......I guess mine were more like haySTACKs not hayBAILS sorry!

you can use the grass tip 233 and use fondant to make a couple of rope ties.....

Very simple square bale is a rice krispy treat with lines of bc for the bailing twine.

I just downloaded a picture in my photo gallery...

I just made a cottage with a straw roof and I used the pampered chef garlic press to make the "straw" It was super easy and fast. You could make a block out of RKT or cake and cover it that way

I used the grass tip for this one. I certainly wouldn't recomment one this big, though.

The twine was not edible, but you could use fondant ropes.

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1270002

Here's a much smaller one I did:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1500937

I would try making it out of modeling chocolate (white - tinted "hay" color) then use a tool to scrape in the texture.

I used cake and covered it in toasted coconut!

i used RKT molded into round bales, covered with MMF, then i used my tools and made round ring groves, then painted them. pics are in my photos.

Oh Wow! What good ideas! Thank you all so very much!

Not a hay bale but a hay stack... check out www.carolinescakecompany.blogspot.com. She made an adorable farm cake!

I made some small ones to go with a tractor. I used cake frosted with buttercream, then put crushed shredded wheat on it - it looked exactly like a bale of straw!