GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — Voters may not all agree on which presidential candidate would best lead the country, but in Grandville, a bakery has them all agreeing on one thing: The cookies are delicious.

Steenstra’s Royal Dutch Bakery along Chicago Drive is selling election cookies once again: some with the word “vote,” others with Vice President Kamala Harris’ face and others with former President Donald Trump’s face.

The owners, Delynn and Rich Steenstra, started offering the bipartisan bites about 16 years ago.

“One of our previous employees did it just on a whim, four elections ago, and we’ve just done it ever since,” Delynn Steenstra explained. “It’s something fun to do.”

The diplomatically delicious cookies may look different as the candidates change, but the flavor is traditional, with a sugar cookie base, royal icing and buttercream on top.

“The recipe for the cookie has been around since the bakery started. We actually have a name for it, it’s called ‘Dutch mix,’ and I can only assume that it came with my grandfather when he started this,” Rich Steenstra said.

Election cookies at Steenstra's Royal Dutch Bakery in Grandville.
Election cookies at Steenstra’s Royal Dutch Bakery in Grandville.

The design is more of a cartoon, not intended to be realistic.

“We’re pretty good at doing Trump because we’ve done him a few years now,” Delynn Steenstra said. “We don’t try to make them look exactly like they should, because we’d never get it right.”

As far as customers are concerned, Trump’s signature hair makes his cookie design the most accurate. The Steenstras always get positive feedback, so according to Rich Steenstra, their biggest challenge is keeping the cookies in stock.

“Trying to really guess how many you’re going to sell on a daily basis, because we like to keep things fresh, and we don’t make them very far ahead of time,” he said. “So keeping enough inventory in the store to to have enough.”

As long as there’s no need for a recount, the cookies are proving to be much more than a half-baked attempt at a little election levity.

“Somebody commented on our Facebook post the other day and said, ‘If deliciousness can’t bring America together, nothing can,'” Delynn Steenstra said.