As their husbands battle each other in a mad dash for the
White House, the two contenders for first lady waged a heated contest of their own in the kitchen.
On Tuesday, the incumbent claimed victory.
Michelle Obama has been declared the winner of the Family Circle Presidential Cookie Bake-Off. Her white and dark chocolate-chip cookies defeated the M&M cookies submitted by Republican rival Ann Romney.
Obama won with 51.5 percent of the nearly 10,000 votes submitted, compared to the 48.5 percent of the votes garnered by Romney.
Of the dozens of polls that forecast the next presidential election, this one has got to be the sweetest: The bake-off has gone on to accurately predict the general election outcome all but once since it began.
The first contest took place in 1992, when
Hillary Clinton’s oatmeal chocolate chip cookies trounced Barbara Bush’s classic chocolate chip recipe. Four years later, Clinton used the same recipe to defeat Elizabeth Dole’s pecan rolls.
In 2000, voters chose Laura Bush’s
Texas Cowboy Cookies over Tipper Gore’s gingersnaps. They gave Bush another win in 2004 by selecting her oatmeal chocolate chunks over Teresa Heinz Kerry’s pumpkin spice cookies...
