Video Game Cookies: From Pixels to Pastries

If there’s two things in life I love, it’s video games and cookies. I mean, what’s not to like? Apparently, the guys over at Parchment Cookies have the same mentality, and have baked up some epic video game-inspired cookies for us to admire (and eat if we could afford them.)

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These incredibly-detailed cookies are based on classic arcade and console games ranging from Galaga, to Duck Hunt, to Donkey Kong, and look great. The level of detail in the icing is spectacular, and really captures the original games in cookie form. I think my favorite set has to be the Burgertime cookies, since they’re food that depicts a video game, depicting other food – including walking hot dog and a ladder-climbing egg.

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A dozen of these handmade video game cookies will set you back $54(USD), which works out to be $4.50 per cookie. I know a lot of love and labor must go into each of these, so they’re worth it. I just don’t know if I could bring myself to eat them or if I’d just frame them and hang them on the wall. Ok, I’d eat them – all in one sitting.


Spider-Man and Batman LEGO Cookies: Marvel and DC Unite! (in My Belly)

These cookies look delicious. Any kid would be happy to pig out on these sugary treats. Forget a birthday cake. Fill my belly with some LEGO pieces, some Batmen and some friendly neighborhood Spider-Men.
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These come from Cookie Artisan, who is all about delicious snacks that are just as cute as any cake. These Batman and Spider-Man LEGO cookies are so completely awesome and delicious looking they are making my mouth water.

Man, I wish I was a kid and my mom made these for me. I could stare at that image all day long, but I would just be hungry and jealous.

[via Between the Pages via Thatsnerdalicious]


Horror Cake Pops are Too Scary to Eat

I couldn’t sleep for days after watching Carrie. I cringed every time I saw someone with a video camera after I watched The Blair Witch Project. And don’t even get me started on The Exorcist.

Some people say that you’ve got to immerse yourself in the things you fear the most so that you’ll get over them. And what better way to get over these horror flicks than by chomping on the women featured in them? That probably sounds a little wrong, but you’ll get it once you see this series of cake pops that Miss Insomnia Tulip whipped up recently.

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Each horrifyingly detailed pop features the leading ladies of all three movies I mentioned earlier, plus Misery (which I have yet to watch.) They’re made and painted wonderfully, but I’m not sure I can stomach these cake pops, much less bite their heads off in the process of eating them.

Horror Cake Pops Excorcist

Horror Cake Pops Misery

Horror Cake Pops Blair Witch

[via Eat Your Heart Out via Laughing Squid]


Star Trek Cookie Cutters: I’m a Doctor, Not a Pastry Chef, Jim!

Live long and prosper by upgrading your diet with more cookies! That’s right, carbs are good for you! Just look what they’ve done for William Shatner! Whether you prefer Kirk, Spock, Bones or Scotty, you’ll love these Star Trek cookie cutters and the delicious baked treats you can make with them.

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With these in your mess hall, you’ll be replicating cookies that look like the Starship Enterprise, a phaser, Spock’s hand, the Federation or Klingon logo. The set comes with one each of the aforementioned shapes, though there’s no guarantee that your cookies will be iced as nicely as the examples provided here. That’s up to you and your steady hand. Just be sure not to wear a red shirt while baking, or your oven might explode.

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You can grab the full set of Star Trek cookie cutters over at ThinkGeek for $19.99 (USD). I wonder how much that is in Federation Credits.

[via That’s Nerdalicious]


Super Mario Bros. Cookie Cutters Make Some Sugary 1-up Mushrooms

The only thing better than cookies are cookies shaped like geeky things. Like things from Super Mario Bros. for example. Oreos are good? Are you serious? They are just round cookies with cream in the center. Chips Ahoy? So what? These Super Mario cookie cutters will make some awesome cookies. Things just taste better when they are shaped like video game characters.

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These 3D-printed Mario themed cookie cutters from Etsy seller WarpZone are just $18(USD) for a set of seven. All of your favorites are here, like Mario and Luigi, Boo, Toad, a star, Goomba and a mushroom. If you can find anything this frakkin’ cool in a bag of Keebler cookies… You can’t.

Come on Nintendo. You are missing a marketing opportunity here. Get with a cookie company and give us some cool snacks. Until they do, we will just have to make our own.

[via That Girl’s Site via Albotas]


Severed Toe and Ear Cookies are Too Gross to Stomach

I get queasy pretty easily. In fact, I can hardly eat after watching a horror movie or after reading a particularly gory series of comics. (Cough, cough. The Walking Dead. Cough, cough. Thank God it’s not rendered in color.)

And while I love cookies just as much as the average person, I’d probably have a hard time swallowing these for obvious reasons.

Toe CookiesJust look at the dirt and grime on those toes. And are those molds? Don’t even get me started on the burst corns and blood just oozing out from the end where the toes were severed from the giant cookie foot.

I don’t think I’d be able to have my cookie and eat it, too. And get a load of these bloody ear cookie pops as well.

Ear Cookies

These disgustingly awesome cookies were baked by Natasha of Nevie-Pie Cakes.

[via Geekologie]


Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges over tracking cookies in Apple’s Safari browser

Google to pay $225 million to settle FTC charges over tracking cookies in Apple's Safari browser

Google has agreed to pay a $22.5 million penalty to settle its dispute with the FTC, over the company’s role in bypassing browser settings in Apple’s Safari web browser. Although it stated that it wouldn’t use tracking cookies or targeted ads in the web browser, a loophole was discovered, violating a previous privacy settlement between the FTC and Google. According to the commission, the company exploited an exception in the browser’s default settings, adding a temporary cookie that could temporarily open up access to all cookies from the DoubleClick domain. While the exploit was patched by Google, for a limited time, it was able to track Safari users that had explicitly opted out. The FTC’s full statement is right after the break.

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