jeudi 18 août 2016
Family Circle Wants to Know Who Makes a Better Cookie, Melania or Hillary
Since 1992, Family Circle, a food and family magazine with 16 million monthly readers, has a tradition of throwing a First Lady Cookie Competition. The wives of each presidential candidate submit an original recipe to be baked by magazine subscribers and eventually voted on for a winner. It's something many avid American bakers look forward to each election, including myself! With Hillary Clinton running as president in 2016, this year's cookie competition is posing to be a little awkward, that is unless you know the history behind the competition.
Rather than pitting Melania Trump against Bill Clinton, the magazine opted to rename the cookie-off as well as Hillary Clinton's recipe to something more gender-neutral: the Presidential Cookie Poll and Clinton Family's Chocolate Chip Cookies. Perhaps Family Circle made the conscious decision to not include Mr. Clinton in the competition after Huffington Post exposed his oatmeal cookie recipe, submitted in the 2008 Presidential Bake-Off, as a direct copy from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. Talk about troublesome!
As a result, this year's contenders are Melania Trump's Star Cookies, a sugar cut-out cookie enriched with egg yolk and sour cream and Clinton Family's Chocolate Chip Cookies, an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that Hillary submitted in the '92 and '96 First Lady Cookie Competitions. If it's making a comeback for the third time, it must be that good.
While I'm disappointed Bill Clinton didn't directly participate in this year's cookie competition, I have a work-around. In 2012, I tried both Ann Romney and Michele Obama's cookies and even created a bi-partisan cookie, meshing the two recipes together. I'm thinking Bill Clinton star balloon cookies are in order . . .
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