After sorting through more than 120 entries and testing (and tasting) 24 of them, our work is nearly done: The winners of the 22nd annual Minnesota Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest have been selected, and they’re delicious.
Celebrate (and taste) the winners of the 2024 Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest
We have five winning cookies, and you can taste them before you bake them at our improved Cookie Wonderland event Dec. 5.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
November 6, 2024 at 3:00PM
You can taste them yourselves at our special Cookie Wonderland event on Dec. 5 at Southdale Center. You’ll be able to sample this year’s winning cookies, mingle with fellow bakers and ask questions from the Taste team and baking professionals. The 2024 winner and finalists will be recognized as part of the program, which starts at 11 a.m. Cookies will be available while supplies last.
But there’s more than cookies!
The program begins with a caroler performance from Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, followed by our baking panel, where you can ask questions from this year’s winner, as well as baking expert, author and Minnesota Star Tribune baking columnist Sarah Kieffer and Amy Carter, the retired pastry chef who leads our recipe testing.
Following the panel, the Cookie Wonderland experience begins. Walk through our expanded Cookie Wonderland experience to sample the winning cookies, snap a wintry photo and buy a new baking cookbook and have it signed by the authors.
Former Taste editor and writer Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson will be there to answer your baking questions and to sign copies of their new cookbook, “The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book.” Kieffer also will be on hand to answer your baking challenges and to sign her newest cookbook, “100 Afternoon Sweets.” And finally, we will also have Zoë François’ latest cookbook, “Zoë Bakes Cookies,” available for purchase.
The event is free, but please RSVP at startribune.com/cookiewonderland. In lieu of charging for the event, we have partnered with Second Harvest Heartland to collect nonperishable food donations for families in need. In addition, cash donations can be made to our new philanthropic effort, the Minnesota Star Tribune Local News Fund. Donations for both will be collected on-site.
Oh, and the winning cookies will be featured in the Minnesota Star Tribune Taste section and online at startribune.com/cookies on Dec. 5.
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