Taste: Nutcracker sweets

  • Article by: Rick Nelson , Star Tribune
  • Updated: November 30, 2007 - 5:46 PM

After careful sifting, we compiled a list of 22 recipes that made it into the testing phase. The 17 judges got busy baking and gathered, milk glasses in hand, around a table covered with cookies and began tasting and talking until we had selected a winner and five finalists.

Eileen Troxel, won the holiday cookie contest with an Orange-Chocolate Cookie and sits in front of the candy land Nutcracker display at the Minneapolis downtown Macy's.

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Putting together our fifth annual holiday cookie contest proved to be a real numbers game. We received 262 wonderful submissions, including what appeared to be an entire classroom from Cambridge (Minn.) Middle School.

After careful sifting, we compiled a list of 22 recipes that made it into the testing phase. The 17 judges got busy baking and gathered, milk glasses in hand, around a table covered with cookies and began tasting and talking until we had selected a winner and five finalists.

Thanks to all who sent submissions, and remember: There are only 336 baking days until our next contest deadline.

 

Rick Nelson • rdnelson@startribune.com

  • MEET OUR WINNERS Meet our winning bakers -- and sample their cookies -- as they bake and discuss their recipes in the Baking Lab at the Mill City Museum from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. The museum is at 704 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis. Admission is $4 to $8; call 612-341-7555 or go to www.millcitymuseum.org.
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