Bill Clinton's Cookie Recipe Copied from Betty Crocker

Cindy McCain isn't the only spouse of a presidential candidate to pass off a recipe as her own. Bill Clinton, who entered Family Circle magazine's 5th Presidential Bake-Off against McCain and Michelle Obama before his spouse suspended her campaign, appears to have stolen his own recipe for oatmeal cookies.

Family Circle includes this brief description for Bill Clinton's Oatmeal Cookies:

Longtime Clinton family cook Oscar Flores -- he worked for them in Washington and after but is now serving in Iraq -- is famous for these brown-sugar treats, which tempt the former president to break his diet.

However, a tastemaker at the Huffington Post discovered that the ingredients and instructions for Bill's "brown-sugar treats" are pilfered from the most obvious of culinary sources: the Betty Crocker cookbook. Below are the two recipes, see for yourself.

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Bill Clinton's Oatmeal Cookies
Betty Crocker's Toasted Oatmeal Cookies

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Comments

[pie8ter]

You guys leave Bubba alone!

About Bubba's recipe, I am ROTFL!!!

[murz]

I see Huffington Post is still ragging on the Clintons.

[JamesInDenver]

I'm not a fan of Bill and I usually don't rush to his defense, but his family cookie recipe could have been innocently copied by his mother. Most of the Betty Crocker recipes have been around a very long time.

[FiveFortyOne]

Does Michelle Obama's recipe check out?

[RDixon]

But he NEVER had sexual relations with those cookies.

[spaceman3838]

wow what a scandal, the huffpo is doing a great job at repairing the split in the democratic party. lets trash clinton because of a cookie recipe. great work guys lets come together.

[iris1970]

Wow you'd think Cindy McCain would have learned from her last plaigarized recipe. I guess not. Her Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies recipe is a direct rip-off from Hershey's kitchens. Check it out here. The gall! http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipes/detail.asp?id=3909&page=1&per=25&product_ID=8#

[majorteddy]

Wouldn't Bill Clinton be better at shake-down and bake cookies?And shouldn't Cindy mcCAin stick to half-baked cookies?

[ebbtide]

Bill Cl;inton looks terrible in that photo that accompanies this article. If any one looks like a desperate, also ran, loser, it is he in this photo.

[BillyT]

Bill Clinton was so hungry he ate the recipe. That's why they have to pilfer from Betty Crocker, and that's why Bill looked so uncomfortable in that picture.