Cookie decorating is an art alive and thriving among today's home cooks. Now you can show off your creative decorating skills (and possibly win cash!) when you enter our Cute Cookies Contest.
The focus of this contest is the appearance of your cookie, not the recipe. Our judges are most interested in how you dress up cookies for birthdays, classroom treats, baby and bridal showers, graduations, holidays and other special occasions.
We'd like to see frosting swirls and twirls, edible glitter and sprinkles, fun fondant adornments, cute themes and shapes, holiday designs, clever personalization and more.
Cookies = Cash!
Prizes for first, second and third place in each division are $300, $200 and $100 in cash! Here are the categories:
Cutouts and Shapes (flat): Enter your coolest cutouts, like Giant Dinosaur Cookies (right). Shaped goodies might include round cookies pinched to shape ears for an animal face and similar ideas.
3-Dimensional: Your 3-D cookies add a lot of life to the dessert tray. Sledding Teddies (right) are examples of eye-catching, three-dimensional types.
Refrigerator Cookies: Tempting cookies like Chocolate Coconut Neapolitans (right) fall into this group. Show us your fancy slices.
CONTEST RULES
The idea must be your own. It can, however, be your interpretation of an idea you have seen elsewhere.
Please describe your design and how you created it. Include a list of materials needed and instructions to create the cookie as well as any purchasing information that might be helpful to other TOH readers. It is not necessary to send a recipe for the cookie.
Include one or more high-quality color photos of your entry. Prints should be at least 4 by 6 inches (jpegs 300 dpi at 4 by 6 inches). Please print your name, address and daytime phone number on the back of each photo.
Be sure to keep your photo negatives. Sorry, we cannot return entries.
You may enter as many items as you wish. Submit your entries by downloading the official entry form, or by E-mail message. All of the information requested on the entry form must accompany each entry.
All entries become the property of Reiman Publications. Entries that are not among the winners may be published in a future issue, in a cookbook or on our Web site.
Contest deadline is April 15.
Enter the TOH "Cute Cookies Contest" at www.tasteofhome.com; or E-mail to editors@tasteofhome.com; or mail to Taste of Home, 5925 Country Lane, Greendale WI 53129.