The Great Minnesota Cookie Book: Award-Winning Recipes from the Star Tribune''s Holiday Cookie Contest
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By (author): Lee Svitak Dean Rick Nelson
Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribunes beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers stories
Its cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and theres nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen years of the Star Tribunes popular holiday cookie contest.
Drop cookies and cutouts, refrigerator cookies and bars; Swedish shortbread, Viennese wafers, and FrenchSwiss butter cookies; almond palmiers; chai crescents and taffy treats; snowball clippers, cherry pinwheels, lime coolers, and chocolate-drizzled churros: a dizzying array and all delightful, the recipes in this book recall memories of holidays past and inspire the promise of happy gatherings to come.
These are winning cookies in every sense, the best of the best chosen by the contests judges, accompanied by beautiful photographs as instructive as they are enticing. A treat for any occasion, whether party, bake sale, or after-school snack, each time- and taste-tested recipe is perfect for starting a tradition of ones own.
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