Cookie Wonderland

Join us for our Cookie Wonderland event where you can stroll through a wonderland of holiday baking cheer, including sampling cookies from this year’s 22nd annual baking contest winners, mingling with the bakers and getting your questions answered from the Taste team and baking professionals.

In lieu of ticket purchases, we have partnered with Second Harvest Heartland to collect non-perishable food donations for families in need. In addition, cash donations can be made to our new philanthropic effort the Minnesota Star Tribune Local News Fund. Donations will be collected on-site, please consider donating if you are able.

Schedule

11 a.m. - Event begins with a caroler performance from Chanhassen Dinner Theatres

11:15 a.m. - Panel begins

11:45 a.m. - Cookie Wonderland experience and cookie tasting begins

Following the conclusion of the program, walk through our expanded Cookie Wonderland experience to sample the top five winning cookies, purchase a new cook book and have it signed, snap a wintery photo, and more! All cookies are provided by Rush City Bakery.

Special Guests and Cook Book Sales

Former Minnesota Star Tribune Taste Team staff Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson will be there to answer your baking questions and to sign copies of their new cook book, The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book.

Minnesota Star Tribune baking columnist, Sarah Kieffer will also be there to answer latest baking challenges and to sign her newest cook book, 100 Afternoon Sweets.

And finally, we will also have Zoë François' latest cook book, Zoë Bakes Cookies, available for purchase.

Be sure to get your mitts on these incredible cook books while you're there!

Panel

This year's panel will be moderated by Minnsota Star Tribune Taste Editor, Nicole Hvidsten, joined by this year’s winner, Sarah Kieffer and Amy Carter, the retired pastry chef who leads our recipe testing.