Cookie sale shows ‘voters’ sweet on Sarah Palin

Cookie sale shows ‘voters’ sweet on Sarah Palin

By Laurel J. Sweet
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - Updated 2d 9h ago

So frustrated by politics you want to bite Barack Obama’s head off or nibble Sarah Palin’s ear?

Kelly Delaney hears you. Few patriots have invested as much dough in next month’s presidential sweepstakes as this nationally celebrated dessert diva based in downtown Danvers.

“Sometimes people can go crazy if you don’t poke fun at things,” believes Delaney, a genuine “Main Street” mother of two so hungry to see people smile again she launched her Cakes for Occasions’ 2008 Cookie Election.Since the frosted sugar cookie straw poll started Friday, edible images of Obama, Palin, John McCain and Joe Biden have been selling like hotcakes. Roughly 120 a day, thanks to a window display with this food for thought: “Your Vote Matters!”

The Marblehead native’s treats feature the finger-licking foursome’s photographs reprinted with sugar and food coloring, and they’re easier to swallow than their campaign promises.

Customers, said Delaney - a former cake designer for Boston’s original Ritz-Carlton Hotel who has baked for both the National Football League and rocker Rod Stewart - are overwhelmingly sweet on Palin, while McCain cookie sales are double Obama’s.

“No one’s buying Biden,” Delaney lamented. “Apparently he’s not appealing. You eat with your eyes first.”

Obama may have bristled during Tuesday night’s debate when McCain referred to his fellow senator as “that one,” but Delaney said voters are free to point to the Democrat’s cookie in her shop and say, “I’ll have that one.”

“We’ll put it in a bag and sell it,” she said, laughing. “I’m so not taking a political stand on anything. It’s a sugar cookie. Even if it’s just for five minutes, it gets your mind off what’s happening in the world. People are loving it.”

Cakes for Occasions will announce their election results Nov. 3, the day before the real deal. Someone’s sure to be unhappy with the outcome, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
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COOKIE ELECTION: Kelly Delaney, owner of Cakes for Occasions in Danvers, displays a tray of political cookies. And there’s no debate: Sarah Palin’s winning this contest.


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