After three rounds of voting, Star readers have officially chosen their favourite holiday cookie in our Cookie Bracket. Earlier this week, we pitted eight classic and not-so-classic contenders, from decorated gingerbread to a crumbly walnut-cranberry treat, against one another. While they’re all worthy of being left out for Santa, in the spirit of drumming up a little unnecessary holiday tension, thousands of readers weighed in to decide which cookie they crave most this time of year. And the winner is...

The shortbread cookie — specifically Mary Macleod’s Shortbread’s Chocolate Crunch.

The two-bite, all-butter cookie with a chunk of semi-sweet Belgian chocolate at its centre beat out Courage Cookie’s inventive Bread Puddin’ cookie in the final round. The latter earns points for creativi

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