Iowa Cafe Swamped With Orders For "Obama Cookie"

[ClarkUSA]

Has there ever been another President that had this helluva Midas touch?

DES MOINES, Iowa — Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country?

Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines.

Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family's fondness for Baby Boomers' chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can't bake them fast enough.

"Two months ago I was giving these cookies away," said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. "Now, it's like, 'I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.'"

The Obamas were frequent visitors to the cafe in the summer of 2007 when the Illinois senator devoted much of his time to Iowa... His daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, would stop by with their mother, Michelle, and Maxfield said they loved the cookies. During a stop in Iowa last month, Obama's staff ordered about a dozen cookies for the family... Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.

"I think everybody just ... thought, 'Oh, great cookie, great president - the world is a happy place. Barack's going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it's going to make me feel good,'" Maxfield said.

Yum. :9

[Starry Messenger]

1. You torture us with no links to pictures?

Have you no decency? :P

[ClarkUSA]

2. I know, I know... sorry!

Maybe you could do the honors? ;)

[Starry Messenger]

3. Ahh...

http://kdrv.com/news/national/67558



Those suckers are huge!

[Starry Messenger]

4. Here's another one with a close up:

http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/4043887/

Now I'm hungry!

[ClarkUSA]

7. Wow, thanks! The picture in HuffPo just does not do the cookie justice.

I have never seen such a huge cookie. What a steal for only 75 cents! I'm hungry now. Wonder how much is delivery?

[Starry Messenger]

8. Let me help you find out...

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=IdF&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=baby+boomer+cafe+des+moines&fb=1&view=text&latlng=6794686694432964454

Yum. Yum.

[ClarkUSA]

9. Thanks, but how does a Google map help me?

Yum.

[Starry Messenger]

10. O rats, I totally screwed that up.

Sorry about that.

I thought the link had the location.

Baby Boomer Cafe
313 E Locust St
Des Moines, IA 50309
[phone]
Get directions

That's what I get for trying to be clever with a post-Thanksgiving hangover. Many apologies!

[annabanana]

5. Ah. .another economy-boosting tactic!. . . n/t

[eshfemme]

6. Whoa... for such large cookies, that price is a bargain!

No wonder they're flying off the shelves! Especially with an Obama thumbs up to recommend them!

[Jennicut]

11. Yum. Sales of cookies AND pie must be increasing due to one Mr. Prez-elect

Those cookies look delicious. Torture for a diabetic like me, though there are decent sugar free cookies and I had a sugar free apple pie for Thanksgiving that was quite good.