Endia Eason Bakes 23 Pies For President Obama

President gets Sweet Potato Pie, his staff gets Peach and Cherry...
Turns out that Endia Eason of Cleveland, Ohio, didn't just give President Obama a Sweet Potato Pie when he visited her home on Wednesday with newly minted consumer watchdog Richard Cordray. Eason, 91, treated the President's entire Advance Team to her locally famous creations, baking 23 pies in total, including cherry and peach. Which perhaps qualifies her for some kind of Guinness World Record for Presidential Piemaking By A Citizen. (Above: Endia Eason sits beside the President during their meeting)

Eason used to run a home bakery, and President Obama praised her skills during his speech at Shaker Heights High School while announcing Cordray's controversial recess appointment as chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"Ms. Eason makes a really good sweet potato pie," President Obama said. "I'm going to eat it later. I didn't want to eat it before because I didn't want to get sleepy having a big piece of pie before."

The President's entourage was grateful for the sweet treats, and Eason was thrilled, reported Cleveland.com.

"Those agents and staff people kept thanking me for the pies," Eason said. "I'm glad they enjoyed them."

The President visited with Eason at her home for twenty minutes before his speech, joined by Eason's husband William Eason, a Marine Corps veteran, Cordray, and Deonna Kirkpatrick, communications director for Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People, a housing non-profit that helped the Easons save their home, after they were misled by an unscrupulous mortgage broker and wound up $80,000 in debt.

Cordray's appointment will ostensibly help stop such criminal activity in the non-banking financial sector, according to the President. He is scheduled visit staff and deliver brief remarks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today at 11:40 AM.

The elderly pie maven first became the face of the White House campaign for Cordray in early December of 2011, when she appeared in a CNN report about Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's efforts to get Cordray confirmed.

Related: The President's speech is here.

*Photo by Pete Souza/White House. In the photo at top, from l: William Eason, Cordray, the President, Endia Eason, and Kirkpatrick.