The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book: 100 Best Recipes from the Star Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest

A fresh batch of deliciously distinctive recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest — with even more recipes, enticing photographs and bakers’ stories.

Cold winters call for warm kitchens and cookie baking, especially around the holidays. The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book, a compendium of Minnesota’s rich baking traditions and innovative recipes, stirs up winning treats from 20 years of the Star Tribune’s popular holiday cookie contest.

Significantly expanding and updating its 2018 predecessor, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book, this collection features 35 new recipes, including Grasshoppers and Dark Chocolate Fig Rolls, Tiramisu Twists and Cardamom Cherry Buttons, Diablo Snowballs, Spumoni Squares and Maple-Roasted Walnut Delights. This sweet-tooth treasure trove of cookie recipes will inspire bakers to discover how many ways flour, sugar, butter and eggs (plus several unexpected ingredients) can be combined to create new favorites for the holidays — or any time of year.

The best of the best, these contest-winning cookies are accompanied by beautiful photographs and baking tips, insights and essays. Indulge in these delightful, mouth-watering recipes while Minnesota’s best bakers share stories of cherished holiday traditions, recall memorable cookie moments and celebrate how baking brings us together.

Details
Authors: Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson
Photographer: Tom Wallace
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 7 x 1 x 9 inches