MOTHER’S 1987 Christmas Cookie Recipe Contest Winners

By Carol Taylor
Published on November 1, 1987
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PHOTO: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF
A cookie collection including: Busia's Yuletide Cookies, Mocha Chocolate Cookies, Meltaways Cookies, Almond Butter Cookies, and Fruitcake Cookies.

The winners of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS cookie recipe contest share their recipes for memorable holiday snacking.

MOTHER’S 1987 Christmas Cookie Recipe Contest Winners

MOTHER EARTH NEWS is staffed by tough, seasoned professionals, able to work under good conditions or bad. And if journalistic enterprise and editorial integrity force us to sample fresh-baked cookies day after day, week after week–well, we’re up to it.

“Send us your best recipe,” we said in MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 106, announcing our Great Christmas Cookie contest. And you did–almost 200 of you. We sifted through the entries and gave the likely-looking ones to our test bakers, who brought the finished products into the office.

“Cookie test!” Typewriters stopped; conversations ended; offices emptied. Editors and shippers, illustrators and typesetters, administrators and receptionists quick-marched through the halls toward a long table holding half-a-dozen varieties of Christmas cookies.

And now, after two months of such hardships, we’ve arrived at our 10 favorites.

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