Enter our cookie contest

Join the fun in our 12th-annual competition. Who knows? Your cookie could be baked in kitchens all over Minnesota.

Send your recipe — and the story behind it — to Taste Holiday Cookie Contest, Star Tribune, 425 Portland Av. S., Minneapolis, MN 55488, or to taste@startribune.com (please write "Taste Holiday Cookie Contest" in the subject field). Please include your name, address, daytime phone number and e-mail address.

Top prize is a $200 gift card to a local cooking store. Don't delay: The deadline is noon on Oct. 24.