Every family has its favorite holiday traditions.

And so many of those traditions include cooking and baking together with one another.

Sharing recipes. Swapping cookies. Gifting cookies.

This beloved holiday pastime is at the heart of the annual Dayton Daily News Holiday Cookie Contest.

>> How to enter the Dayton Daily News 2018 cookie contest

Below are the first through third place winners and all honorable mentions in this year’s cookie contest. Click on a photo to get the recipe for those cookies.

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