Pac-Man Cake

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This year my little cousin turned 13.  I cannot believe he is 13!   He’s my godson and we are pretty close.   He lives 2 1/2 hours away from me but I see him about once a month.   So seeing him turn into a teenager is beyond crazy.

When I called him on his birthday this year the poor kid was sick as a dog.   He had the flu and it quickly turned into pneumonia.   I felt horrible for him.   Luckily his birthday party was 2 weeks after his birthday so he had time to heal.

He decided this year he wanted to have a video game party.  His mom was renting a video game bus for the kids and everything at the party was going to be video game themed.   He wanted me to make cookie and a cake and had some pretty crazy ideas about what type of cake and cookies he wanted.

After looking around I sent him a list of 4 cakes and about a dozen cookies that I could make.   He picked 4 designs of cookies and 1 cake.  The cake was a Pac-Man cake and I was seriously excited to make it.   He loves chocolate so the cake was chocolate and the frosting was vanilla flavored.

I tinted the background frosting black.   I covered the entire cake in black frosting.  Then I piped on the video game screen.   It looked so cool.   I was so excited about how it looked.  It was exactly how I imagined it.  I sent a picture to my cousin and he told me I was amazing.   It was cute.

Unfortunately, the day of his party they were calling for 5-8 inches of snow and Pittsburgh went under a winter weather warning.  My cousin had to cancel the party so this cake wasn’t eaten for the party.  Everyone was pretty upset about it.

Pac-Man Cake

Chocolate cake frosted with vanilla frosting then decorated to look like a Pac-Man game.

5 from 5 votes

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Prep Time: 1 hour hour

Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 35 minutes minutes

Author: Hezzi-D

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 2 c. flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 c. cocoa powder
• 2 sticks butter softened
• 1 1/4 c. sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 c. milk

For the frosting:

• 2 sticks butter
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla
• 4 c. powdered sugar
• 2-3 Tablespoons milk
• Food coloring pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and black

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix and set aside.
• In a large bowl mix the butter until smooth. Add in the sugar and cream.
• Stir in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla.
• Add in the cocoa powder and mix well.
• Add half the flour mixture and stir well. Mix in the milk stirring until combined. Add the remaining flour and mix until smooth.
• Pour into the baking pan. Bake for 25-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges and then remove from pan. Cool completely.
• In a large bowl beat the butter with a mixer. Add in the vanilla and mix until blended.
• Stir in the powdered sugar a half cup at a time until thick. Add just enough milk to make the frosting to the desired consistency.
• Divide the frosting in half. Dye one half black. Frost the entire cake with black frosting. Place the remaining black frosting in a piping bag and pipe dots all around the edges.
• Divide the remaining frosting in half. Dye half of the frosting medium blue. Pipe a line around the outside edge. Pipe on the video game screen. Pipe on one of the Pac-Man ghosts.
• Divide the remaining frosting in half and dye half of it yellow. Pipe out Happy Birthday on the top. Pipe the dots in the video game screen. Pipe on Pac-Man.
• Divide the remaining frosting into 6 small bowls. Color one pink, one red, one orange, one green, and leave one white.
• Use the pink, red, and orange for ghosts in the game. Use the orange for a peach on the screen. Use the red for cherries on the screen. Use the green for the top of the peach and the cherry stems.
• Finally, use the white to pipe eyes onto the ghosts.
• Lastly, use the black to put dots on the whites of the eyes. Then pipe the black eye on Pac-Man.

Notes

The cake is a Hezzi-D Original Recipe. The Pac-Man design is from Cake Design by April