{"id":457509,"date":"2022-01-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2022\/1\/2021-vegnews-holiday-vegan-cookie-contest-winners"},"modified":"2022-01-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:00:00","slug":"2021-vegnews-holiday-vegan-cookie-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/05\/2021-vegnews-holiday-vegan-cookie-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 VegNews Holiday Vegan Cookie Contest Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <img src=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/media\/W1siZiIsIjI3MjMwL1ZlZ05ld3MuSG9saWRheUNvb2tpZUNvbnRlc3QuMjAyMS5WTi5jb20uOC5qcGciXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIjE2MDB4OTQ2IyIseyJmb3JtYXQiOiJqcGcifV0sWyJwIiwib3B0aW1pemUiXV0\/VegNews.HolidayCookieContest.2021.VN.com.8.jpg?sha=fc773f5a05467332\"><p>When we announced the eighth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2021\/12\/vegnews-holiday-vegan-cookie-contest-2021\">VegNews Holiday Cookie Contest<\/a>, we couldn\u2019t wait to see what our readers would whip up. After receiving an overwhelming number of mouthwatering cookie entries, we had the tough task of narrowing the entries to just 10 finalists. And after several days of rigorous cookie judging (and sugar comas), we give you our three esteemed winners. Congratulations to all, and happy baking!<br><img src=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/media\/27209\/VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-BrownButterCookies-2.jpg\" alt=\"VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-BrownButterCookies-2\"><br><strong>First Place:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2022\/1\/vegan-bourbon-chocolate-chip-cookies\">Vegan Brown Butter Bourbon Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/a><br><em>by Mercades Garcia<\/em><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/media\/27212\/VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-Peppermint-5.jpg\" alt=\"VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-Peppermint-5\"><br><strong>Second Place:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2022\/1\/vegan-peppermint-mocha-chocolate-chip-cookies\">Vegan Peppermint Mocha Crunch Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/a><br><em>by Caitlin Conner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img src=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/media\/27227\/VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-Shortbread-5.jpg\" alt=\"VegNews-HolidayCookieContest-Shortbread-5\">Third Place:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2022\/1\/vegan-peppermint-nutella-shortbread-cookies\">Vegan Peppermint Nutella Shortbread Cookies<\/a>\u00a0<br><em>by\u00a0Ava Marie Romero<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So what do our three winners receive for their award-winning cookie recipes? The sweetest, most handy vegan latte kit from our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/lairdsuperfood.com\/\">Laird Superfood<\/a>! Inside their kits will be an array of superfood coffees, plant-based creamers, matcha tea, chai tea, hot chocolate, oat milk, sweeteners, and, of course, a milk frother to create dreamy winter lattes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our 2021 VegNews Holiday Cookie Contest Finalists:<br><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chai-Chip Almond Cookies <br><\/strong><em>by Amy Siegel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolate Spice Bizcochitos <\/strong><br><em>by Amy Siegel<\/em><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark Chocolate Vegan Lava Cookie <\/strong><br><em>by Jill Zimmerman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gingerbread Hot Cocoa Cookies <\/strong><br><em>by Isabella Rubinson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iconic Black &amp; White cookies <\/strong><br><em>by Jill Zimmerman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peppermint Choco-Chunk Cookies <\/strong><br><em>by Alissa Chen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegan Butter Cookies <\/strong><br><em>by Diane Garvey<\/em><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2022\/1\/2021-vegnews-holiday-vegan-cookie-contest-winners\">VegNews.com<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After countless entries, 10 finalists, and days of delicious cookie sampling, we present this year\u2019s VegNews Holiday Cookie Contest winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457510,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457509\/revisions\/457510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}