When a football recruit takes an official visit to a college campus, it’s come to be expected that a cookie cake will be waiting for him in his hotel room along with other snacks and beverages. And since everything in college football recruiting becomes a competition, the cookie cakes have, naturally, taken on a life of their own.
The amount of frosting, the message on the cookie cake, the size ... everything presents an opportunity to outdo the competition.
Ohio State has taken on that competition and raised the bar with three-dimensional cakes replicating the Buckeyes’ helmets, complete with helmet stickers and all.