Using Rice Crispies Treats As Part Of Your Cake.
Decorating By BakingGirl Updated 6 Nov 2006 , 7:14pm by Sweetpeeps
I am just wondering how you get the RCT part to blend in with the rest of the cake, how you hide the bumpiness of the RCT to be more accurate. I am making a box and I want to use the RCT for the lid. Do I crumb coat the RCT lid like the rest of the cake before covering it with MMF, or do I just roll the MMF a bit thicker for the lid?
Oh you wise ones, please enlighten me!
BakingGirl
yup.....i crumb coat or lightly coat with buttercream and that works great
I haven't posted pics yet. But I used as base for DD haunted castle cake. I used it as the ground covered in fondant. I needed that bumpy texture. So I am not sure how to do what you need. I had put a thin layer of BC so fondant would stick on the krispies. I hope this can help in some way 
I used RK treats for turrets. Applied a layer of BC before the fondant. It still came out kind of bumpy - you can see it on my castle cake. I'd love to know how to avoid this...
I read a post the other day about someone saying they saw someone on tv using a rolling pin to crush them before they used it. I dont' know if that was before or after they made them into treats. You might try doing a search on it.
i used rice krispy treats for the roof of a hotwheels cake that i did. i also used them for the fins that stuck out the back. i coated them with bc before covering in fondant. on the roof it looked really smooth since i had inverted the rct so the bottom part that was in my pan ended up being the top side that i iced. it looked fine...however, the fins showed bumps even when covered in bc. i will attempt the rolling pin idea for the next time.
Thank you all for your replies.
I made the RCT lid this morning and really squashed the mix into the pan quite hard to minimise the amount of holes I would get. I am going to test out the different methods on a spare piece of RCT before I go ahead and finish the box lid. I will post again with what I find was the best way to do it since I am obviously not the only one who is wondering about this.
BakingGirl
Ok, here are my findings in the great RCT test. I found that no buttercream and thick fondant did not work well, even if the fondant is thick the outside still looks bumpy. Thick buttercream made it too soft, so my fingers would leave indentations in the fondant. The best way for me was a crumbcoat of buttercream which I worked into all the holes and grooves, and then normal thickness MMF on top.
Here is the finished result, only the lid is RCT, the box itself is cake.
BakingGirl
where is the result?? I don't see it!
I made a lid for a treasure chest out of RCT and just slathered it with bc and it worked great...nobody had a clue it wasn't cake!!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=KHalstead&cat=0&pos=34
Hm, my attachment disappeared. Maybe the file size was too big or something.
BakingGirl
Last night on Ace of Cakes, they tried to make a dinosaur with rice crispies, unsuccessfully, but they made cannolli-like roll-ups that were perfect. They rolled the heck out of them, they looked a bit like thin brown bricks. You should be able to roll them enough to give you a fairly smooth surface. Give it a try, the very worse that can happen is you'll have to cover them with Buttercream.
Lapazlady are you saying roll them with the rolling pin after they set up? Thanks
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