Pacman Sugar Cookies
July 14, 2008
Sugar cookies with bright royal icing featuring Pacman along with Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.
I recently ordered some food coloring paste after hearing of their potent coloring ability. Way better than liquid food coloring, I was informed. So a box of food coloring paste was promptly ordered. Now I just needed something to test these new colors on!
I dug through my collection of cookie cutters to find my tiny tulip cookie cutter. Turn it over and it's perfect shape for a pacman ghost.
Ingredients:
Sugar cookie dough
1 egg white
2 cups powdered sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon light corn syrup
Various food paste colors
Mini chocolate chips
The ingredients for the royal icing - everything but the dough and the chocolate chips - make enough for a dozen and a half small sugar cookies.
Preheat oven to 350°F!
Cut out the ghost and pacman shapes from sugar cookie dough.
Pacman is created from a circular cookie cutter and then a pointy bit from another cookie cutter.
Bake for about eight minutes, or until the tops are golden brown.
Allow to cool.
For the royal icing, mix together the egg white and lemon juice. Add the corn syrup, then mix in the powdered sugar.
Now to use the new colors!
For each character color, scoop roughly one-fourth cup of the royal icing into a bowl. Dip a toothpick into the bottle of food coloring and stir into the icing. I needed two dips for to create the blue for the Inky, but the other colors only required only one dip.
Once it's the proper color, pour the icing into a plastic bag.
Seal the bag, and snip a teeny tiny bit off one of the corners.
Squeezing the bag gently, draw the outline of the ghost on the cookie. Fill in the outline. Repeat the whole coloring and bagging procedure for each ghost. Save a little of the white royal icing; you'll need it for the last bit.
Allow the icing on the cookies to set. It'll take about 30 minutes.
Once the icing is firm, pour the last bit of white royal icing into a plastic bag. Add the two eyes.
Quickly add the tiny chocolate chips.
The ghosts will be all set in about 15 minutes.
I love the way these turned out!
Wow!! Those came out amazing! At a quick glance I thought you actually had a pacman ghost cookie cutter : )
Posted by Richelle ♥ July 15, 2008 9:28 PM
do you need to eat a blinking pill before eating these ?
Posted by Online Advertising ♥ July 24, 2008 3:46 PM
Yay! I am so making these for my boyfriend and his group for their gaming party this weekend
Posted by uzneko ♥ July 24, 2008 9:28 PM
Very, very cute!
Posted by Ewa ♥ July 24, 2008 9:52 PM
I can just taste the old-school joystick goodness!
Posted by Anachronista ♥ July 25, 2008 3:31 AM
So cute!!! Whom ever is eating these better realize how much detail went into these!
Posted by RPO ♥ July 28, 2008 2:14 PM
I found a website that made cupcakes of these characters as well.
Posted by Recruiting Services ♥ July 29, 2008 3:54 PM
these are awesome
Posted by Recruiting Services ♥ July 29, 2008 5:44 PM
Omg I saw these cookies on foodgawker and had to drop by to let you know that I thought they are so cute! Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories of playing Pacman on my ancient nintendo console. :D
Posted by Elaine ♥ July 31, 2008 1:04 PM
Oh, these are too cute!
Posted by Patricia Scarpin ♥ August 1, 2008 11:21 AM
What a great collection of cookies! Well done! Don't you just love the paste colors!
Posted by Audra ♥ August 1, 2008 1:39 PM
These are so neat! Now I'm thinking of decorating a cake using these characters and M&M's for the dots.
Posted by scoobnut ♥ August 8, 2008 10:31 AM
Funny idea !! I liked it!!
Posted by Morten pedersen ♥ August 17, 2008 2:20 PM
They are extremely cute!
I wonder when is Pacman's next generation of foie gras this time.. =D
Posted by Von Cook ♥ August 19, 2008 9:22 PM
Taste funny :P
Posted by pokoje Zakopane ♥ August 20, 2008 2:18 AM
this is a realy good way to make cookies ie is awsome
Posted by leah ♥ August 21, 2008 9:49 AM
This is such a cute idea. i'm going to make these for my best firend and his roommates!
Posted by wedgie :D ♥ August 22, 2008 1:13 AM
Cavies!! I see you're using nonallergic, recycle paper. Oh, cool cookies, might make them for my daughter's second grade class.
Posted by Kmuzu ♥ August 25, 2008 7:42 AM