"In November, recipes from 25 finalists were prepared by students and faculty from Los Angeles Trade-Technical College's culinary arts program for a panel of judges including editors, writers and our art director from L.A. Times Food, former LATTC baking instructor and author Robert Wemischner and three pastry chefs: Bakery by the Yard's Sherry Yard, Fleurs et Sel's Lara Adekoya and SweetBoy Bakery's Ben Sidell."
""You have to accept each cookie for what it's supposed to be," says the award-winning Yard. "Each one has an opportunity to be individual and pop with flavor. Is it innovative? Is it Grandma's? Does it tell a story?" The winners came to the Times Test Kitchen and shared their stories of cookie inspiration. We loved the classic and the experimental, the weird and the wonderful - a party in a holiday cookie box."
The L.A. Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off returned with more than 150 entries and produced ten winning reader cookie recipes. Winners include reinvented snickerdoodles, Danish biscuits, molasses cookies, citrus-flecked snowmen, jam-filled thumbprints, tender shortbread, crispy cookie bark, mini stollen and big whoopie pies. The call for readers began in 2010 and this year's event was the first since 2017. Twenty-five finalists had recipes prepared by Los Angeles Trade-Technical College culinary students and faculty for a judging panel that included Sherry Yard, Lara Adekoya, Ben Sidell and Robert Wemischner. Winners presented cookies at the Times Test Kitchen and shared inspirations, including Roxanne Lecrivain's Clementine Stollen Cookies and her annual cookie-exchange tradition.
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