Care to crunch on your favorite presidential candidate?
It’s happening at Oakmont Bakery with a recent rollout of the traditional election candidate cookies, embossed with iced edible images of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
The cookies are made with edible rice paper embossed on an iced sugar cookie.
“We sold thousands this past weekend,” bakery manager Joshua Cooper said.
Cooper declined to provide exact numbers on the candidate cookies sales (cookies are $2.50 each).
This year, a third “candidate” is giving Harris and Trump a bit of sweet competition.
“The Sweetest Candidate” ($3.75 each), a specialty vanilla buttercream paczki topped with chocolate icing, is being sold alongside the presidential candidate cookies.
Cooper said customers are thrilled.
“The third candidate is for fun, really. This is the first year we’ve used the paczki, and customers love it. They’re so happy they are back,” he said.
The bakery began the tradition in the early 2000s.
“People are going crazy over it. We just want to have fun, and we don’t track the sales,” Cooper said of which cookie is selling more. “We don’t want to make a competition out of it, but customers definitely buy large quantities.”
