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Tetris Cookies

January 7, 2013 By Francois 19 Comments

Did you know the Game Boy game console was launched almost 24 years ago? I don’t care if that makes me old, GameBoy was awesome. If there was one game I obsessed over, it was Tetris. To this day, as much as 8-bit video games have lost most of their appeal, give someone an old GameBoy with Tetris and they will be hooked. So here is my tribute to this amazing game: Tetris cookies. It will help me forget that it’s been 24 years =) Here is how to make them:

Tetris Cookies
 
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makes 80 Tetris pieces
Ingredients
  • for the cookies:
  • 1½ stick butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups flour
  • for royal icing:
  • One 2lb pack of confectioner sugar
  • ⅓ cup meringue powder
  • ¾ cup water
Instructions
  1. To make cookie dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and any flavorings and mix on medium speed to incorporate. Add the flour and mix on low speed until the dough comes together.
  2. Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. In the meantime, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Cut out your cookies and place them on baking sheets.
  3. Bake for 8 minutes or until the edges start to turn golden.
  4. To make royal icing, place all 3 ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on slow for a minute to combine your ingredients. Turn the mixer to high speed and mix for 7 minutes. Divide the royal icing in 6 parts to make each of the following colors: yellow, orange, red, blue, purple, green.
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To make the dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together on high speed until light and fluffy:

Add the egg and any flavorings and mix on medium speed to incorporate:

Add the flour and mix on low speed until the dough comes together:

Roll between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes:

To cut these cookies, we need to score the dough in a pixel pattern. To do so, using a carving knife or any long blade, score the dough with vertical lines, about 1/4″ apart. Then score the dough with horizontal lines.

Here is what you get:

Using a pairing knife and following the lines on the dough, cut out your Tetris pieces.

In case you need a refresher, here are the pieces you want to cut out:

Place the pieces on a baking sheet and bake at 350°F for 8 minutes:

To decorate the cookies, start by covering each one in the right color of royal icing.

Here is what they look like without icing:

And now with icing:

Let the icing set completely. These are small cookies so it doesn’t take that long. You can stick them in the oven overnight with the light on.

To add the final details, using a food coloring pen, add lines to divide each piece into little squares:

Tadaaaa!!!

 

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Filed Under: Cookies, Front page, main, Recipes Tagged With: 8bit, Cookies, geek, hero, nintendo, puzzle, tetris

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Comments

  1. laura

    January 9, 2013 at 5:02 pm

    THESE ARE SPECTACULAR!!!!! You are brilliant!!!

    Reply
  2. Daniel

    January 10, 2013 at 6:03 pm

    I agree with the comment from Laura, but all of your cookies look absolutely amazing. I will definitely be looking through the rest of your blog for recipes and decorating ideas. Simply amazing, sir!

    Reply
  3. Francois

    January 10, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Thanks guys! =)

    Reply
  4. Dave

    January 11, 2013 at 4:44 pm

    Other then having yellow listed twice for the six colors needed, can’t wait to try these.

    Reply
    • Francois

      January 11, 2013 at 4:49 pm

      oops. Let me fix that =)

      Reply
  5. Keri

    January 11, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    These are just adorable! What a clever idea! I’m so making these as a birthday present to myself! <3 Thanks!

    Reply
  6. Letitia

    January 11, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    Brilliant! I love these and must make them now.

    Reply
  7. Jess

    January 11, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    They look great, were you just limiting it to six different shapes or did you forget about the L shape that goes the other direction?

    Reply
    • Francois

      January 11, 2013 at 9:42 pm

      I was doing it by memory. I forgot there was another “L” =)

      Reply
  8. Cristina

    January 13, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    I loved making them but I gotta tell you this recipe made way too much icing! I only used about a cup for like 80 cookies now I dont know what to do with the rest!

    Reply
    • Francois

      January 13, 2013 at 1:54 pm

      lol. I always make more icing than I need in case I mess up =). Since this icing recipe does not contain any egg whites, you can put it in a bowl, cover with with plastic wrap and keep it for weeks. Just mix it up again when you need it and add a tiny bit of water if you need to.

      Reply
    • Kari

      January 16, 2013 at 6:48 pm

      So make more cookies 🙂

      Reply
  9. erin

    January 16, 2013 at 9:47 am

    These are so awesome! Love the site, especially the SF gingerbread houses!

    Reply
  10. Bolacha Maria

    January 28, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    BRILLIANT!!!!!

    I made a post about it on my blog

    thank you for sharing!!!

    http://todiyornottodiy.blogspot.pt/2013/01/bolachas-tetris.html

    Reply
  11. SweetSugarbelle

    February 1, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    CUTEST IDEA EVER! LOVE!

    Reply
  12. Hani(haniela's)

    February 2, 2013 at 9:36 am

    I love playing Tetris, these are brilliant!

    Reply
  13. Jenny

    February 8, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    This makes me happy!!

    Reply
  14. Phonix

    April 12, 2013 at 8:13 pm

    Just don’t try to assemble them and get the squares into a line, or they’ll disappear 😛

    Reply

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