It's time to put on an apron and warm up your oven; 39th edition of the annual festive Tribune cookie contest here.
From simple but beautiful sugar cookies with ice to kitchen shells, with all your favorite goodies, we cannot wait to see what creative treats you came up with. In addition to the right to brag, the sweet monetary prize is waiting for our three recipes for victory.
Three invited judges will help you choose the victorious bakees of this year. Justin Lerias SouthReema Patel Sarima Cafe And ASA Balanoff Naiditch from Bline Butter will solve our winning cookies based on taste, texture, appearance and originality.
“I would like to see relics that are personally significant,” said Lerias. “When I eat cookies, I always look for contrast, both in texture and in aroma.
His great council for bakers? Do not save on salt.
“This enhances sweetness and reveals deeper aromas in cookies,” he said.
For a patel, who started as a bakery -amatean, cookies – a typical dessert of comfort. She said that “there is not a single right way to make them,” and encouraged the bakers to play with combinations of taste.
“Try something new, make a funny base, add unique mixes and draw inspiration from other dishes that you like,” she said. “There is something special in the use of cookies, which tastes like something new and at the same time seems familiar, because it is in the form of cookies.”
Last year35 bakers presented recipes for everything, from Kolahs to pasta to Biscotti, and readers scored more than 2700 votes to determine our finalists. Our judges of 2024 are Kinton McNire from the fight against BeargeBearDbakery, Dina Simarusti from Sugar Moon and Emily Nedjad from Bon Vivant – the crowned Jeanne White, oh, yes! Cookies are like an ideal sweet treat. Erin Classen took second place with Erin's prints, while Jesse Kimball took third place with the SnickerDoodles Bear SnickerDoodles recipe.
How to enter
To join the cookie contest this year, send your recipe, including a description of 200 words about why it is special, and a photograph of cookies below. If the feed box does not load, go to Chicagotribune.SecondStreetapp.com/HOPOY- COOKE-CONTESTET-2025Field
Be sure to carefully describe how to make your cookies in a clear and detailed way. Recipes should be your own – records, which are copies of the published work of another person, will be disqualified.
Deadline
Recipes are closed on October 14 at 23:59. Voting begins on October 15, and readers can vote daily for recipes that they want to move on to testing taste. After the vote ends on October 24 at 23:59, 12 recipes with a majority vote will be baked by Tribune employees and appreciated. The team with food has the opportunity to turn it into a dozen finalists of the baker, if we find that one recipe should be included as “Joe Gray”, named after the former editor of the dining room.
Prizes
The first place wins $ 250 in cash; second place, 150 dollars; Third place, 50 dollars. We will announce the winners online and in the press on December 3.
Get a culinary book
If you are interested in winning the recipes for previous years, “Festive cookies, the second edition” includes dessert recipes from readers' performance to the Tribune cookie contest for many years, including 28 recipes from 2014 to 2022. Get it by Chicagotribune.com/holidyCookiesField
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