Bakers, start your ovens

Think your cookies take the cake? The Southeast Missourian and its special publications are teaming up for a holiday baking blowout. Enter your favorite cookie recipe in our Holiday Best contest by e-mailing the recipe to she@semissourian.com. The best recipes will be selected by a panel of Southeast Missourian staffers and local food experts, with winners invited to bake and enter their actual cookies in the final stage of the contest. Winners will be featured in the Good Times section with their recipes in December.

How to enter: Send your cookie recipe neatly printed or typed, along with your contact information, to she@semissourian.com or sending a typed or neatly printed copy to SHE magazine c/o Callie Clark Miller, P.O. Box 699 Cape Girardeau, Mo., 63701.

Deadline: Entries must arrive by Nov. 21. Finalists will be announced Nov. 24 and invited to submit their cookie creations to our panel of judges Dec. 1.

Winning recipes: The winning recipes will appear on the Dec. 7 Good Times section of the Southeast Missourian. Winners will also be featured at shethemagazine.com. If you have any questions, send an e-mail to she@semissourian.com.