It's beginning to look a lot like ... time to bake for the holidays.

We're already working on some holiday cookie story ideas, but we don't want to judge cookies because we did that for Kitchen Mailbox's contest last year. This year, we invite you readers to submit your best recipes for holiday sweets that aren't cookies, be they cakes or pies or candy.

We'll test and pick the best and award $100 and bragging rights to our first-place winner, then share some of the other winning recipes in a story in early December.

Send your recipe, its source and your daytime contact information to: Holiday Baking Contest, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 34 Blvd. of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, or e-mail them to food@post-gazette.com. Deadline is Dec. 1.

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