Presidential Cookie Recipes

2012 WINNER: Michelle Obama's White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

In our 2012 Presidential Cookie Bake-Off, we said it was your patriotic duty to bake, taste and vote. Did you ever—more than 9,000 readers weighed in. And the winner is...Michelle Obama! Victory was sweet for our current First Lady and her White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies, but just 287 votes separated the two women, our smallest margin ever. (In other words, Ann Romney's M&M's Cookies were no flash in the pan.)

Makes: 5 dozen cookies
Prep: 15 minutes
Bake: at 375 degrees F for 12 minutes per batch

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2012: Ann Romney's M&M's Cookies

Makes: 3 dozen cookies
Prep: 15 minutes
Bake: at 325 degrees F for 18 minutes

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2008: Bill Clinton's Oatmeal Cookies

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2008: Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookies

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2008: Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies

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2004
Laura Bush's Oatmeal Chocolate Chunks
Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spice Cookies

2000
Tipper Gore's Gingersnaps
Laura Bush's Texas Cowboy Cookies

1996
Elizabeth Dole's Pecan Rolls
Hillary Clinton's Oatmeal Chocolate Chips

1992
Hillary Clinton's Oatmeal Chocolate Chips
Barbara Bush's Classic Chocolate Chips

Originally published in the June 2012 issue of Family Circle magazine.