I saw this thread on Indiegamer.com about Antair Games’ most prestigious Indie Bake Off 2008 competition, and I simply had to post a picture of my delicious Pac-Man saffron buns I baked a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t planning on entering the competition per se, but Gavin from Antair Games just told me that the pic was added anyway…despite its blatant disregard for competition rules! (He didn’t say the last part explicitly, but I can tell!)

It’s been a semi-annual tradition for me to make these every year around December 13. It’s my own particular way of celebrating Saint Lucy’s Day. Normally the traditional saffron buns look like this, but I prefer my geeky buns:

As you can see, my Pac-Men are a little darker and maybe not quite as yellow. I blame that on two things: my covering the buns just a tad excessively in eggs…and the fact that I used some strange unlabeled saffron that I bought in Tunisia. I think it was saffron at least…

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