This week’s recipe is not actually a recipe from the game, but rather something that I came up with to put a festive spin on the most recognizable icons of the Sims… the plumbob! Since the holidays are gingerbread season, I thought gingerbread plumbobs might be a fun little cookie to make.

The plumbob has been around since The Sims 1 and is used as a device to identify the mood and needs of your Sim. Each game has changed the mechanics of how the plumbob works (The Sims 4 changed it to reflect the emotional state that your Sims are in for instance) but has never changed what its shape. It has always maintained its elongated diamond shape which easily identifies it, even outside of the game.

I decided to come up with a recipe for Gingerbread Plumbobs. The cookie recipe itself is homemade, however, I decided to cheat a little with the frosting and just used store bought this time as the cookies themselves take some time to prepare and bake. For this recipe you can either use a square cookie cutter to achieve the diamond shape (though the shape will be a bit off) or you can hand cut them like I did using a knife.