I had to make some Rice Krispie for the neck, first time for everything. I had just over five cups of rices so modified the recipe to make it fit.
I used about 30gms of butter and melted in the saucepan over a low heat then added pink and white cheapy marshmallows - one packet, 100gms and mixed often till I got a smooth texture then added to the ricies.
I moulded fairly quickly into the shape I wanted for the beak, head and neck. I pushed down and rolled as firmly as I could to crush the ricies and try and get the smoothest possible finish.
I set the neck in the fridge and it became quite firm. In order to get as snug and supported neck as possible I cut the cake away underneath the curve and it was reasonably stable.
I moulded the orange fondant onto the beak and left it to firm up a bit, but when I next checked the beak had fallen off, so, as the ricie mixture was still a little tacky I pushed the beak back on and added a skewer through the beak into the head to secure it and it was fine.
It took me literally hours to roll and cut the feathers with a metal petal cutter, but as I had several sizes, I thought they were ok. The main criticism is that I rolled the fondant too thickly and consequently used heaps - two and a half packets. The bird weighed a ton. End result - pretty good, I think.
