For the 39th annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest, 32 readers submitted recipes for sweet treats, including biscotti and shortbread, bars and balls, and classic chocolate chip and sugar cookies. Some ...

Have you started your holiday cookie baking yet? Not meaning to stress you out, but bakers it's time to get serious about this annual ritual. Recipes gathered, all the necessary ingredients on the ...

Holiday baking is all about tradition. And one of the traditions of the Star Tribune’s annual contest is to ask contestants to tell the story behind the cookie. This year, the stories are as ...

Local bakers submitted nearly 40 batches of cookies in the 2025 Dayton Daily News Holiday Cookie Contest. In 2023, the holiday cookie contest returned after a brief hiatus due to the coronavirus ...

The Dayton Daily News, Journal-News and Springfield News-Sun holiday contest returned this year — asking bakers to submit their very best cookie recipes. Since 1990, bakers from across the region have ...

Jul. 25—GOSHEN — Ten-year contestant Karen Meade was named the overall winner of this year's Senior Citizen Cookie Baking Contest at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. The competition had three categories ...