The Great Cookie Debate – Grosse Pointe News

GROSSE POINTE WOODS — While early in-person voting doesn’t begin until Saturday, a local business has been offering customers the opportunity to announce their preference for the presidential race since earlier this month.

Delight Bakery, 21211 Mack, sells cookies with the names of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. The $2 shortbread cookies are topped with white royal icing and the names Trump in Republican red and Harris in Democratic blue.

“I probably do 50 to 100 of these every night, depending on how many we sold that day,” said co-owner Tim Bradshaw.

The cookies are in two large jars at the register, and a small board keeps a running list.

When Bradshaw visited the Grosse Pointe News one day late last week, just before closing, he said he had just sold his last Trump cookie of the day. The Harris jar appeared to be about three-quarters full. At that time, Trump was ahead of Harris by 516 votes to 343.

“When we started, people came mainly to buy something different and wanted to see it,” Bradshaw said. “Then we posted it on social media and word got around and people started reaching out specifically for her.”

He added that most people enjoy the friendly competition.

Delight Bakery sells cookies to gauge customer preferences during the presidential campaign.

“I would say about 95 percent of people laugh about it,” Bradshaw said. “Some people are just disgusted by it. They favor their candidate and don’t want us to sell the other candidate too.”

The bakery even had a few requests for a third option from people who weren’t happy with either option.

“Maybe we’ll add that next time,” Bradshaw laughed. “It would be fun, but it would also be more time consuming.”

Delight ran the same contest during the 2020 presidential campaign, but didn’t launch until about a week before Election Day.

“I don’t remember the final tally, but they were within five or six years,” Bradshaw said of Trump and President Joe Biden.

The bakery plans to run the competition through November 5th.

“I think that on Election Day we will be taking specific orders for people who may be gathering to view the results,” Bradshaw said. “We don’t want there to be a lot of leftovers.”