Pac Man Cookies! The Best Sugar Cookies and Icing Ever

I love my sweetheart very much.  He has loved video games his whole life and is currently living the dream of being a computer programmer for EA-BioWare working on games (I’m so proud of him)!  I wanted to make him something extra special so I made…

PAC MAN COOKIES!

My boyfriend loved them!  And they tasted absolutely delicious, the best sugar cookies I have ever made/had!

I followed this easy and fun tutorial from iD Tech Bloggers and used the cookie cutters from my new 101 Wilton cookie cutter set.  If you don’t have the tulip cookie cutter for the ghost, you can apparently make your own here.

Some of my Pac Men were structurally unsound, he kept breaking at his jaw-line. I’m not sure how to fix this, maybe he needs a smaller mouth.

I’m a huge fan of the website Snack or Die which features video game inspired foods.  I aspire to one day create something that will be featured on it!  My sweetheart fills me in on all sorts of cool games, maybe we can come up with a cool game-inspired food together.

These cookies seriously were the best sugar cookies I have ever tasted. AllRecipes is my favorite way to find recipes and this is what I found:

Best Rolled Sugar Cookies This really is the BEST. Use it for all of your rolled cookies! I rarely use butter in recipes (although I live in Georgia, I’m no Paula Deen) and used butter flavored shortening and I’m not sure these cookies could have been any better! They rolled very smoothly and cut out great. The dough got a little crumbly, but it was all fixed with mixing the dough together in my hands.

Sugar Cookie Icing This dried hard and looked great.  I messed around with the recipe a lot added more equal parts of corn syrup and milk until it was a good consistency.  I wish I remembered how much I did so I could tell you, but it was easy.  Instead of almond extract I used a lot of lemon extract which gave the cookies a wonderful flavor.  My sweetheart loves Italian cookies with a light lemon flavor like Grisbi or Anginetti.

It was my first experience using food coloring, I used the Wilton little tubs.  In my manual on cake decorating it says to use a toothpick.  After a zillion toothpicks I resorted to using a fork (it’s like 4 toothpicks at once) and came to the conclusion there has to be a better way to do this.    I was very pleased with the color though.

I hope to make more delicious game-inspired treats!

Tags: cookies, game cookies, gamer cookies, pac man cookies, pacman cookies, video game cookies

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