Holiday Cookies: Prize-Winning Family Recipes from the Chicago Tribune for Cookies, Bars, Brownies and More

So many great recipes. I bought one for each of my three daughters.

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! This is a collection of winning recipes from the Chicago Tribune's annual cookie contest. The contest started in 1986, but the recipes in this book are from the 1988 to 2013 contests. Almost all the recipes(approx. 98%) have an accompanying photo of the finished cookie. These photos are gorgeous and certainly entice you into reading and or making the recipe.I only used the finest, freshest ingredients in the recipes I made and they all were delicious! If you compromise on the quality of the ingredients used in these recipes, your cookies will NOT taste the best they can be.(maybe mediocre at best.)These are the recipes I have tried so far:1. Chocolate Almond Shortbread (I could not find Dutch Process Unsweetened Cocoa, so I used Trader Joe's unsweetened Cocoa Powder + 1 tsp instant espresso powder-for darker color and more robust flavor.)2. Swedish Spice Cookies(rolled them in Large Grain Decorative Sugar, instead of granulated) These were a FAVORITE!!!3. Caramel Oat Bars

It has every cookie that I would like to make. It is my go-to cookie book from now on…

This was a great gift for a person who prides herself on her baked goods. She has saved and used many Chicago Tribune cookie recipes over the years. She was extremely pleased.

A beautifully illustrated book with a number of recipes that I will be trying. I am pleased to see that the first, second and third place winners plus honorable mention cookies from 1988 to 2013 are all in one place, including some of my favorites like pecan tassies and chocolate mint sticks (both 1992). Wish that the 1986 winning recipes were here -- my cookie tray would not be complete without that year's chocolate covered cherry cookies and coconut joys. A worthwhile purchase for anyone looking for interesting recipes with personal back stories.

This is an attractive hard cover, well written, easy to follow holiday cookie, bars, brownie, cook book. I love that the recipes are prize winners from the Chicago Tribune that were family favorites passed down for generations. I've been baking cookies for many years and have my own family favorites, but this years cookies are going to be from this wonderful book. A lot of the recipes are very easy to make with ingredients that I always have in the house. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves baking and it will make a great gift.

I have enjoyed the Chicago Tribune Holiday Cookie contest ever since it's origin, and am thrilled with this cookbook. Love this cookbook and just in the last week have made many cookies from it for Christmas. Great kolachkies, dark and stormies, friendship spice cookie, thumbprints and more. Great cookbook, with interesting tidbits about origin of entrants recipe, laid out well, and many photos of cookies. A wonderful little cookbook!

I liked the book, but it didn't include the 13 recipes from 1986 and the 3 recipes from 1987. But it's a beautiful book and well worth the price. Perhaps they can do an "addendum" or should I say "prequel" and put in the missing first two years' worth of recipes.

This is a beautiful cookbook. It contains a variety of unique holiday cookie recipes, plenty of vivid photographs, and suggestions regarding substitutions and obscure ingredients. I have made five recipes from this book, so far, and they have been huge hits with my family. I plan to base the rest of my Christmas baking off of this book.

Just received this one today & it is a fantastic cookbook, can't wait to dlve into it, so hard to choose what to make first.