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!
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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
Oh my gosh, these are wonderfully creative and fun! Thank you for sharing. I too thought you had a Pacman ghost cookie cutter, what a clever idea! They're perfect! Great photos too. :-)
Blessings,
RH
Posted by ResilientHeart ♥ September 17, 2008 11:31 AM
Simply awesome.
Thanks for share it! ♥♥♥♥♥
and very nice and awesome work! ^ - ^
Posted by LillSohma ♥ September 27, 2008 5:56 PM
Oh... genius.
Posted by Amy ♥ October 15, 2008 9:26 PM
HOLY CRAP! This is the cutest idea I have seen! I love your imagination! These little guys take me back to my attari!!
Posted by Sarah ♥ October 19, 2008 10:40 AM
oh my god, I seriously had cute overload when I saw the pic of these cookies. this is sooo awesome, and inspirational! :D
Posted by Caroline ♥ October 22, 2008 8:12 PM
Have you thought of making a "Pac-cake"?
Posted by D ♥ October 24, 2008 9:19 PM
lol.. very cool recipe, this brought a smile to my face :D the pacmac cookies are so cute!
Posted by kang L ♥ November 8, 2008 2:26 PM
OMG i just loved this!!!!!
Posted by deb ♥ November 8, 2008 6:41 PM
They are fantastic!
Posted by UK Foodie ♥ November 11, 2008 10:42 AM
Totally photoshopped. having said that, I want to make these for the holidays this year. Stumbled here, givin' it a thumbs up. :)
Posted by Phil E. Drifter ♥ November 14, 2008 6:04 PM
they rock
Posted by qwertyuio ♥ November 17, 2008 12:56 PM
how long do they take to make
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllpppppppppppppp
Posted by edster ♥ November 17, 2008 1:05 PM
@edster: If you have the dough all ready, it'll take about 30 minutes or so to frost the cookies. :)
Posted by Jocelyn ♥ November 17, 2008 1:08 PM
i know but all together how long do the take like the baking waitng i omly got 1hour 15mins to bake them.
Posted by edster ♥ November 18, 2008 11:35 AM
I got inspired by your awesome idea so I tried it out myself. I made them a little bit bigger and added a ghost after a power pellet is eaten. Another idea would be to put little red bows on some of the pac-men to make them ms. pac-(wo?)men
Posted by Aaron ♥ November 20, 2008 5:13 AM
So cute! Great decorating job. Very creative :)
Posted by Erin ♥ November 21, 2008 12:20 PM
Thank you for the inspiration to make these cookies! Who'da thunk it?!?! The tulip and cut-out circle idea is absolutely genius :) Keep up the awesome work.
Posted by Dorothy ♥ November 27, 2008 10:02 PM
Lovely! I am making these real soon:)
Posted by Sunshinemom ♥ December 8, 2008 11:11 AM
that is fucking adorable.
Posted by Lucia ♥ December 12, 2008 5:24 PM
Hi, can you send me the intrucions in spanish please and the intruccions for Super Mario Bros. Mushroom Cookies too please
Posted by Anonymous ♥ December 17, 2008 3:38 PM
So sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!
Posted by Tanya ♥ January 11, 2009 6:41 PM
wocka wocka wocka wocka
hehehe that's all i could think when i saw them XD coool
Posted by caleb ♥ January 12, 2009 7:57 PM
i enjoyed making theese verry much they were great
Posted by beki ♥ February 18, 2009 3:27 PM
cute!
Posted by Michael ♥ February 23, 2009 4:49 PM
These are so super cute! I imagine they would be a great hit with children (and of course, adults, myself being one). Love it!
Posted by Sarah Jane ♥ February 26, 2009 7:16 PM
Hi, I'm a singer songwriter, putting out an album and was wondering if I can have permission to use the pic. of the plate of pacman cookies for the cover?
Thanks
Jeremy.
Posted by Jeremy Ferrick ♥ March 11, 2009 11:23 PM
Not only cute, it's a homenagem to pacman and the oldschool video games
Posted by Andrex ♥ March 17, 2009 4:15 PM
These are soooooo cute!
Posted by Zee ♥ March 18, 2009 9:46 PM
OMG! these are so cute! i wish i was a better cook...
Posted by mangaluvr ♥ April 18, 2009 8:21 PM
That is the cutest thing in the entire world. I've never been so impressed!
Posted by Libbi ♥ April 22, 2009 2:44 PM
these are the best cookies in the world
Posted by Anonymous ♥ May 1, 2009 10:22 AM
amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by amber ♥ May 1, 2009 10:23 AM
He, your cookies are featured at
http://pacmanmuseum.com/news/?catid=4
Very nice!
Posted by Oliver ♥ May 24, 2009 7:38 PM
Awesome.
Posted by Kirsten ♥ June 3, 2009 7:30 PM
Wow, that looks absolutely delicious! You did a great job presenting the pictures too, I will definitely have to try this recipe when I have some time this weekend :)
Posted by Garden Tools ♥ June 17, 2009 8:37 PM
hey... these cookies are awesome! and the frosting was great once it was on the cookies (by itself? not so much) but what kind of store bought cookie dough did you use? i cant seem to get them to keep their shape very well... :(
Posted by darizzkid ♥ September 29, 2009 12:17 AM
These are so cool! My sister loves Pac Man I'll have to make her these for her birthday! Thanks for the great idea, I love it!
Posted by Tanya ♥ October 23, 2009 6:23 PM
Caroline (with the idea of a pac-cake):
I had a pac-cake for my 12th birthday but it was chocolate so it was pacmans evil twin
Posted by Anonymous ♥ November 21, 2009 3:37 PM