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A firefighter and a police officer look at a golden Leibniz cookie that hangs from a horses neck in front of the Leibniz University

A firefighter and a police officer look at a golden Leibniz cookie that hangs from a horses neck in front of the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Jochen Luebke)

A statue gracing the facade of German cookie baker Bahlsen's Hannover office before and after the rectangular gilded bronze sculpture was taken away

The combo photo shows a statue gracing the facade of German cookie baker Bahlsen's Hannover office before and after the rectangular gilded bronze sculpture was taken away. (AP Photo/Police Hannover)

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Stolen giant cookie sculpture recovered in Germany

No suspect has been apprehended

Updated: Tuesday, 05 Feb 2013, 12:53 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 05 Feb 2013, 12:53 PM EST

BERLIN (AP) — German police have recovered a cookie sculpture that may have been stolen by someone impersonating the Cookie Monster.

Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says the 20-kilogram (44 pound) gilded sculpture was found Tuesday morning outside a university. It was hanging from the neck of a horse sculpture with a red ribbon.

The century-old cookie was reported stolen last month from the office of a bakery company in Hannover.

A local newspaper later received a letter demanding cookies be delivered to children at a hospital. The paper also received a picture of someone dressed like Sesame Street's Cookie Monster holding what appeared to be the stolen cookie.

The Bahlsen company promised a reward of 52,000 packets of cookies for a charitable cause if their emblem turned up.

No suspect has been apprehended.

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