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November 30, 2023 at 12:01PM
![The winning cookies of the 2023 Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest. Center, Earl Grey Butter Cookies with Dark Chocolate and Orange Filling (the winner), and finalists: Good Thai Dings, Nanaimo Bar Thumbprint Cookies, Aperol Sparklers and Ginger Chocolate Bliss. Photo by Dennis Becker, food styling byLisa Golden Schroeder.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/D2HVSSJVSX2WVXQOKTIGF5JXCU.jpg?&w=712)
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Taste EditorNicole Ploumen Hvidsten is the Star Tribune's senior Taste editor. In past journalistic lives she was a reporter, copy editor and designer — sometimes all at once — and has yet to find a cookbook she doesn't like.
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