PURPOSE: A rice cake pattern forming method is provided to easily form various characters and patterns on the surface of rice cake, and to improve the producing time of the patterns. CONSTITUTION: A rice cake pattern forming method comprises the following steps: firstly coating the surface of rice cake; flattening the surface of the rice cake; molding patterns on the surface of the rice cake; secondly coating the surface of the rice cake with the patterns; and drying the rice cake. The first coating process is performed by an agar containing coating solution or a chocolate containing coating solution.