Cookies Determine Fate of Presidential Candidates
Who knew cookies had so much power? Readers of Family Circle have successfully predicted America's next first lady during the past four elections just by judging the presidential spouses' cookie recipes in the magazine's competition. Chocolate tends to win Family Circle readers over, but this year neither Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain contributed recipes for cookies including chocolate; Obama went with shortbread and McCain, oatmeal-butterscotch. Readers' favorite cookie will be revealed in mid-October.
To bake your own Presidential cookies, check out the collection of recipes at the appropriately named blog, Presidential Cookies.
Related
Jones Soda Launches Campaign Cola
Add a comment:
Previewing your comment:
HTML Hints
Some HTML is OK: <a href="URL">link</a>, <strong>strong</strong>, <em>em</em>
Comment Guidelines
Post whatever you want, just keep it seriously about eats, seriously. We reserve the right to delete off-topic or inflammatory comments. Learn more at our Comment Policy page.
If you see something not so nice, please, report an inappropriate comment.
10 Comments:
I wonder if this Cindy McCain recipe is actually hers, or another ripped off from Food Network?
Buckethead at 3:46PM on 06/16/08
How 1950s, how sad.
Barbara Hanson at 4:00PM on 06/16/08
I wonder what Bill Clinton would have submitted Hillary had won the nomination. Does he even have a cookie recipe? Would the contest even work since it wouldn't be between potential First Ladies?
wunami at 4:05PM on 06/16/08
Bill Clinton did submit an oatmeal cookie recipe!
mayam at 4:13PM on 06/16/08
Michelle is up 1/2 a star compared to Cindy...aside from who I would love to see win this "contest", the shortbread cookies look pretty darn good. I'm a sucker for anything with amaretto.
Carosone at 5:09PM on 06/16/08
It seems Cindy's cookie recipe came courtesy the Hershey Kitchen...with less butterscotch chips, now THAT seems wrong! :D
Carosone at 5:15PM on 06/16/08
I have been making the oatmeal scotchies recipe off the back of the Nestle butterscotch chips package every year for Thanksgiving for something like 20 years. That recipe looks reeeeeeeeeeally familiar. :-) Anyone have a package on hand to compare?
wellred at 6:10PM on 06/16/08
Cindy's recipe may be a bit generic (not that there's really a lot of variation in the ratios for a basic oatmeal cookie), but egg in a shortbread? That's unforgivable.
But the Clinton cookie beats them both by a mile. Toasting the walnuts and the oats first? Now that's a proper recipe.
JLecru at 6:17PM on 06/16/08
Speaking of cookies and candidates, there's a bake sale to raise $$ for Obama this Saturday at the Borough Hall farmer's market in Brooklyn, beginning at noon. I won't be there, but some of my baked treats will be. Come on by!
CookiePie at 2:51PM on 06/17/08
Funny that you should say hopefully Cindy's isn't lifted off Food Network, as it turns out it's a Hershey's recipe. Get a clue, lady, no one cares that you don't write recipes yourself, but to plagiarize AGAIN??? Seriously.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.html
SingleGourmet at 5:28PM on 06/17/08