I’ve been scouring the Internet for months in search of a recipe for video game foods. It hasn’t been easy. The bakers and cake decorators who know how to create really amazing desserts don’t seem to want to share their cooking secrets, leaving me with recipes for companion cube cakes that look rather disgusting. So, inspired by my friends at Nerds Gone Wild! Magazine, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I decided to bake Triforce shortbread cookies.

If there’s one complaint I have about recipes, it’s that they never give me enough information. For simple recipes like peanut butter sandwiches, one can get away with just a few descriptions and no diagrams, but for the fancier stuff, you really need a guide – someone to hold your hand and tell you that you’re not the only one with inept motor skills. So here is the Eegra guide, complete with photographs of every stage of the cooking process, to making shortbread and shaping them into whatever you like! It’s really easy! Sort of.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 ½ cups of plain flour (you can use self-raising or wholemeal – it doesn’t matter)
• 1 tablespoon of corn flour
• 250 grams of butter (this equates to one ‘block’ or ‘stick’, I think)
• 1/3 cup of castor sugar (you can use normal sugar – it doesn’t make a difference)
• A little bit of icing sugar for sprinkling. I probably used a teaspoon’s worth, but you might use less! Who knows!
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (it’s the same thing as vanilla essence)

TOOLS

• A large bowl to mix stuff in
• A large fork or fork-like object that is capable of mashing butter. You could use an electric mixer if that’s more your thing, but a fork takes less time to clean.
• A knife (a butter knife will do, but if you have a metal spatula, even better!)
• A rolling pin (you can use a wine bottle turned on its side)
• A sifter (you don’t really need this, unless you’ve bought lame-o clumpy flour)
• Cling wrap
• Baking paper/baking tray/something you can bake in
• Courage, hope, and feelings.

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