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This PacMan Cake is filled with chocolate and is great for a Video Game party!

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
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 35 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