Maker of Obama Cookie Plans Batch for Inauguration

Baby Boomers Cafe owners Tom Magnani, left, and Rodney Maxfield, show off a jar of cookies at their cafe in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Kevin Sanders, File)

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By Becky Ogann

DES MOINES (AP) - The bakers of chocolate chunk cookies beloved by the Obama family have hired a publicist and are angling to sell the goodies to organizers of inaugural parties.

Rodney Maxfield, co-owner of Baby Boomers' Cafe in Des Moines, says since word got out that the Obama family enjoyed snacking on cookies at the restaurant adjacent to their former Iowa campaign headerquarters, sales have soared from 300 cookies a week to about 3,000 cookies. The cafe now is shipping cookies throughout the world.

And if a publicist is successful, the cookies will be set out at inaugural week parties and galas next month in Washington, D.C.

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