Barnes & Noble Announces My Cookie Story Contest to Celebrate Customers’ Most Memorable Holiday Cookie Stories and Recipes
December 04 2018 - 9:02AM
Business Wire
Entrants Can Submit Their Cookie Story and
Recipe for a Chance to Win $5,000 and Be Featured in the 2019
Barnes & Noble Café Holiday Menu
Submissions Accepted at Barnes & Noble
Stores and Online Today, National Cookie Day, Through December
17
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s
largest retail bookseller, today announced a special holiday cookie
contest for customers to share their favorite cookie stories and
recipes with Barnes & Noble and a panel of nationally-renowned
chefs and bakers. To coincide with National Cookie Day today,
Barnes & Noble kicked off the My Cookie Story Contest to give
entrants the chance to win $5,000 and to have a version of their
cookie sold during the 2019 holiday season at Barnes & Noble
Cafés nationwide.
“At Barnes & Noble we love stories, which is why we’re
offering customers around the country the chance to share their
favorite cookie stories and recipes with us this holiday season,”
said Neil Strong, Vice President of Café Operations for Barnes
& Noble. “We can’t wait to hear all the great stories of
special cookies shared with families and friends through the years,
and one winner will have a version of their cookie featured in our
Cafés next holiday season.”
Participants are asked to submit their cookie recipe along with
a story of 200-words or less, explaining where their favorite
recipe came from and why it’s so important to them. Submissions to
My Cookie Story Contest will be accepted at Barnes & Noble
stores, or online at BN.com/mycookiestory. The winning entry will
get a $5,000 prize, and a version of the cookie will be featured in
Barnes & Noble’s 2019 holiday menu with partner Sweet Street
Desserts. The winning entry will also be showcased on Barnes &
Noble’s national social media channels.
The winner will be chosen by Barnes & Noble and its panel of
nationally-renowned chefs and bakers. The panel includes:
- Rose Levy Beranbaum, American baker and
cookbook author, including Rose’s Baking Basics: 100 Essential
Recipes, with More Than 600 Step-by-Step Photos.
- Deb Perelman, Founder of Smitten
Kitchen and cookbook author, including Smitten Kitchen Every Day:
Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites.
- Katie Workman, cookbook author and
Founder of The Mom 100: Recipes, Stories, and Real-Cook
Solutions.
- Sandy Solmon, Founder of Sweet Street
Desserts.
- Jason Arthur, Barnes & Noble Café
Operations Communications Manager, who will be a contestant on this
season of ABC’s The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition,
premiering on December 6 at 9/8c PM on ABC.
For complete details and official rules, visit
BN.com/mycookiestory.
Entrants can also join the conversation and follow along on
Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat (bnsnaps) and Facebook,
using the hashtags, #MyCookieStory and
#SweetStreetOMG.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the nation’s largest
retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products. The Company operates 630 Barnes &
Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier
e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). The Nook Digital business
offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and an
expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content
through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store (www.nook.com) features
digital books, periodicals and comics, and offers the ability to
enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through Free
NOOK Reading Apps™ available for Android™, iOS® and Windows®.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained
by visiting the Company's corporate website at
www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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& Noble.com® are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. or its
affiliates. NOOK® and the NOOK logos are trademarks of Nook
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About Sweet Street
Sweet Street is the leading innovator in the dessert industry.
The Company is owned and operated by Sandy Solmon and headquartered
in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Sandy is also the head of research
and development, leading a team of like-minded, passionate
researchers and recipe developers who now bake for restaurants in
over 60 countries, on every continent. Visit them at:
https://www.sweetstreet.com/.
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Mary Ellen KeatingSenior Vice PresidentCorporate
CommunicationsBarnes & Noble, Inc.(212)
633-3323mkeating@bn.com
Alex OrtolaniDirectorCorporate CommunicationsBarnes & Noble,
Inc.(212) 633-3379aortolani@bn.com
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