Have you tasted the Obama cookie? Have you even heard of the Obama cookie before? I haven't, and I was curious like everybody else when I read about the 'Obama cookie' craze currently sweeping certain parts of Iowa and, it seems, the rest of the country.

No, the Obama cookies are not made by President-elect Barack Obama. Not even Michelle or any other member of the first family. Nor are they inspired by the Obamas. I know there were a number of cookies made by supporters during the campaign with the Obama face, logo or motto on them written in icing (like the ones pictured above), but these are not the cookies we are talking about here. These Obama
cookies are chocolate chunk cookies from a downtown Des Moines restaurant currently selling like the proverbial hotcakes because word got around that it is a favorite of the first family. Now, everybody wants to have one and the restaurant just can't keep up with the orders, with some reportedly coming from as far away as Mexico. Read the following report from Amy Lorentzen of the Associated Press to know more about the Obama cookie.

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, where the state's precinct caucuses kick off the presidential nominating process. Obama's main office was next door to Boomers, and his staff made the cafe a second home.

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. That's when word got out about their affection for the confection.

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.

Update: Barack Obama has just been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Watch videos of Obama's inauguration and inaugural speech, or read the full transcript of the Obama inaugural address.

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