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Traditional, home-made Christmas cookies lie on plates in a household on December 21, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
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Rick Nelson eats his way into a sugar coma this time of year. As the food critic for the Star Tribune, he's in charge of the annual holiday cookie contest.

He joins The Daily Circuit to talk about this year's winner: cappuccino flats, which the paper calls "a harmonious combination of chocolate and coffee." The winning entry came from Dianne Sivald of White Bear Lake, adapted from "Cookies for Christmas."

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