Enter your recipe for the Taste Holiday Cookie Contest

Our 17th annual contest is underway, so send us your favorite recipe — and the story behind it.

September 27, 2019 at 4:06PM
Mocha Cappuccino Cookies ___The 15th year of the Taste cookie contest includes, Chocolate Toffee Cookies, Cranberry Cornmeal Shortbread Cookies (winner), German Sour Cream Twists, Limoncello Kisses, Mocha Cappuccino Cookies [ The Star Tribune 2017 Holiday cooky contest Star Tribune Photos By Tom Wallace holbooks cover for the 2017 book guide
Mocha Cappuccino Cookies, from our 2017 competition. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

We've had the same two goals ever since we started the Taste Holiday Cookie Contest in 2003: to have fun, and to share fantastic cookie recipes with Star Tribune readers and bakers.

You could be this year's winner! We love original recipes (check out 2018's winner, Dark Chocolate Fig Rolls with Mocha Ganache, from Elizabeth Davis of Wayzata), but we also appreciate recipes from cookbooks, newspapers, websites and magazines that you've incorporated into your baking traditions. Just be sure to cite the source.

Peruse all 82 previous winners and finalists at startribune.com/cookies. Here's a tip: Think different. We love spritz, for example, but we already have favorite spritz recipes.

It's easy to enter. Send your recipe — and the story behind it — to taste@startribune.com (write Taste Holiday Cookie Contest in the memo field), or mail it to Taste Holiday Cookie Contest, Star Tribune, 650 3rd Av., Suite 1300, Minneapolis, MN 55488.

Please include your name, daytime phone number, e-mail address and street address.

Winners receive fame plus a bit of fortune: a $200 gift card to a local cooking store.

Deadline is noon on Oct. 25. □

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about the writer

Rick Nelson

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Rick Nelson joined the staff of the Star Tribune in 1998. He is a Twin Cities native, a University of Minnesota graduate and a James Beard Award winner. 

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