![Apple Cardamom Pecan Star Cookies (from baker Jana Freiband). ] The winner and four finalists in the 2015 Taste Holiday Cookie (Cooky) Contest: Chocolate Decadence Cookies (from baker Elaine Prebonich), Kit Kat Christmas Bars (from baker Julie Olson), Cardamom Orange Zest Sugar Cookies (from baker Jeanne Nordstrom), Bacon Cornmeal Venetos (by bakers Julie Bollmann, Wendy Kleiser, Joan Koller, Geri Olson and Mary Urbas) and winner Apple Cardamom Pecan Star Cookies (from baker Jana Freiband). ORG](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/UQAHH2JURFHHQ3Y5CQT7MHTJQ4.jpg?&w=1080)
Get out the flour, butter and eggs. The 16th annual Taste Holiday Cookie Contest is now open and accepting entries.
That cookie recipe that everyone tells you they love? Now is the time to share it with the world.
Fortunately, this competition isn't bogged down with a lot of rules.
Original recipes always grab our attention. Just look at the 2016 winner, Nut Goodie Thumbprints, from Crystal Schlueter of Babbitt, Minn., or the 2015 winner, Apple Cardamom Pecan Star Cookies, from Jana Freiband of Minneapolis.
But we're also interested in recipes you've encountered via cookbooks, newspapers, websites, magazines and other sources, and then incorporated into your holiday baking traditions.
Please be sure to include the recipe's origin, along with the story behind it, because we love good stories as much as we love delicious cookies.
(Note: We enjoy spritz, gingerbread cutouts, chocolate crinkles and other beloved holiday favorites as much as everyone else, but the purpose of this contest is to showcase what we hope will become new classic recipes.)
It's an easy process: Just send your recipe — and your story — along with your name, address, e-mail address and daytime phone number to taste@startribune.com (and write "Taste Holiday Cookie Contest" in the memo line), or to Taste Holiday Cookie Contest, Star Tribune, 650 3rd Av. S., Suite 1300, Minneapolis, MN 55488.
