Family Circle magazine’s potential future First Lady recipe-off is underway and it’s intense! While the cookie vote is often overlooked, it has, in the past four presidential elections, predicted who would win, with readers favoring the next First Lady’s treats over their competitors.
Michelle Obama has offered up her shortbread cookies with zest of lemon and orange, and a “cheeky kick of almond liqueur Amaretto.”
Cindy McCain, a known recipe plagiarizer, has submitted her oatmeal butterscotch cookies. And SURPRISE!!! It’s a Hershey’s recipe!
So far Cindy is in the lead. Can you say CHEATER!?!?! Meaningful Distraction called Cindy’s people but have not heard anything back yet. We’ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, click here and vote for Michelle!
Click through to see Cindy and Hershey’s recipes.
Makes: 5-1/2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter or margarine, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1-2/3 cups butterscotch chips
Directions
1. Heat oven to 375 degree F.
2. In a large bowl beat the butter or margarine, granulated sugar and brown sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla, beating well.
3.In a medium-size bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture; stir until blended. Stir in oats and butterscotch chips. Drop by tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
4. Bake at 375 degree F for 10 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
HERSHEY’S Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups quick-cooking or regular rolled oats, uncooked
- 1-3/4 cups (11-oz. pkg.) HERSHEY’S Butterscotch Chips
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Beat butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in large bowl until well blended. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
3. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in oats and butterscotch chips; mix well. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. About 4 dozen cookies.
Tags: Barack Obama, Cindy McCain, Cindy McCain Cookie Scandal, Cindy McCain Recipe Plagarizing, Family Circle Presidential Bake-Off, Food Network, John McCain, Michelle Obama
June 17, 2008 at 9:24 am |
[...] that could wreck her husband’s campaign. According to the blog Meaningful Distraction, she lifted someone’s recipe and had it published as her own in a Family Circle Magazine recipe contest against Michelle Obama. [...]
June 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm |
I think Cindy would have been much better served, and not so bitter, if she had followed the advice of Better Botter and bought some better butter:
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said, “This butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better!”
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter. And her batter was not bitter!
So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
June 17, 2008 at 4:50 pm |
Did Laura Bush ever do anything publicly homemaker-y? Did Hillary?
Whassup with holding Michelle and Cindy to a new higher standard for First Ladies?
If I want cookies, I’ll bake ‘em myself or buy them from some GOP-donatin’, sugar-injectin’, child-obesity raisin’, diabetes-inducin’ mega-bakery blacklisted at buyblue.com.
Who cares which candidate’s wife bakes better cookies?
That said, Cindy is a copyright violating machine. Bad wife-of-candidate. No biscuit.
June 17, 2008 at 5:06 pm |
I love you Da Munchies.
June 17, 2008 at 9:40 pm |
why doesn’t this blog mention that people can still vote for Bill’s cookies????
His are the best!
June 25, 2008 at 9:55 pm |
arg cindy mccain and her “stolen recipie” haha…you should totally post this article at the mill so more people can see it