Our holiday cookie contest is back! Here’s how to enter

We had more than 30 local bakers submit their favorite holiday recipes. Dana Tatar of Oakwood came in first place with her recipe for Festive Stuffed Cookie Butter Cookies, followed by Rebekah Lermond of Union with her recipe for Peanut Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies and Jelena Staub of Oakwood with her recipe for Brown Butter Espresso Chip Cookies.

The Dayton Daily News has conducted a holiday cookie contest since 1990, and bakers from across the region have submitted thousands of recipes over those three decades.

Here’s how you can enter:

Email the recipe with exact measurements and instructions to food and dining reporter Natalie Jones at natalie.jones@coxinc.com. Please include your first and last name, the city you reside in and a brief description about how you came across the cookie recipe and what makes it special to you. Also include your phone number and email in case our team has additional questions. If you are a winner, that’s how you will be notified.

Sorry, we cannot accept postal mail submissions at this time.

What will happen next:

Those interested in submitting a recipe have until Nov. 15.

Our team will choose 10 of the cookie recipes to bake. The judges will then try the cookies on Nov. 22 and a first-, second- and third-place winner will be selected. The winners will be contacted before Nov. 27, and a story will be published in the newspaper Dec. 8, recognizing our favorite cookie recipes.

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