The clock is ticking, but there’s still time to enter your signature cookie recipe into the Tribune’s 39th annual Holiday Cookie Contest. But don’t wait too long: Oct. 14 is the last day to enter.
Here’s how to enter:
Submit your original recipe — including a 200-word description of why it’s special and how you developed it — and a photo of the cookies below. If you don’t see the entry form below, try refreshing the page or go to chicagotribune.secondstreetapp.com/Holiday-Cookie-Contest-2025.
Bakers can submit a recipe until Oct. 14 at 11:59 p.m. Afterward, readers can vote once per day for their favorite recipe until Oct. 24 at 11:59 p.m.
Tribune journalists will bake the finalists’ recipes and guest judges — Justin Lerias of Del Sur, Reema Patel of Sarima Cafe and Asa Balanoff Naiditch of Blame Butter — will select three winning cookies. The winners will be announced Dec. 3. First place wins $250; second place, $150; third place, $50.
Want to know what recipes won in previous years? Check out “Holiday Cookies, Second Edition,” which includes dessert recipes from reader submissions to the Tribune’s cookie contest over the years, at chicagotribune.com/holidaycookies.
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