Check out the holiday cookie-decorating contest winners!

Quad-Cities Campus Student Life hosted the 2020 BHC Bake the Season Bright Cookie-Decorating Contest. Thanks to the 21 students who took the time to painstakingly decorate holiday cookies!

Participants could use cookies from a cookie-decorating kit provided by Student Life or could use their own cookies.

First, second and third place prizes were awarded in three categories – Cookie-decorating kit, home-baked and batch of cheer (2 or more cookies) – plus two special recognition awards and a fan favorite.

  • 1st – $100 Amazon gift card
  • 2nd – $50 Hawk’s Hub gift card
  • 3rd – $25 gas gift card

Here are the winners and the participants. See all of the entries on Facebook.

Cookie-decorating kit:

  • 1st – Gema Dominguez – Una Navidad Llena de Vida/A Christmas Full of Life
  • 2nd – Briana Raya – Oh Christmas Tree
  • 3rd – Michelle Aukes – BHC Snowman
decorated bell-shaped sugar cookie
Gema Dominguez – Una Navidad Llena de Vida/A Christmas Full of Life

Home-baked:

  • 1st – Christi Hughes – Warm and Cozy by the Fire
  • 2nd – Alexis Mulvehill – A Snow Globe Christmas
  • 3rd – Elizabeth Spurgetis – Rosy-cheek Santa
decorated cookie fireplace, window & stockings
Christi Hughes – Warm and Cozy by the Fire

Batch of cheer (2 or more cookies):

  • 1st – Kelly Schipper – Traditional Christmas
  • 2nd – Decorator name withheld – Mississippi Winter Wonderland
  • 3rd – Leigh Harper – Frozen Fractles
plate with gingerbread man, Santa and snowman cookies
Kelly Schipper – Traditional Christmas

Special recognition – $10 coffee gift card

  • Most School Spirit, Sprinkle Precision Award, and Best Representation of 2020 – Kelly Nache – Frosty wishes his BHC friends a healthy and happy holiday season!
  • Semester Survival Salute – Miranda Banks – QC College Caffeine Kick
plate with cookie snowman with pennant & wearing mask
Kelly Nache – Frosty wishes his BHC friends a healthy and happy holiday season!

 

2 decorated cookies that look like drink cups
Miranda Banks – QC College Caffeine Kick

Fan favorite – Received the most votes on Facebook – BHC sweatshirt

  • Kelly Schipper – Traditional Christmas

Participants – BHC stocking hat or scarf

  • Alysia Anderson
  • Ella Crockett
  • Alexa Ellis
  • Kayla Freebern
  • Emily Freymann
  • Joscalyn Hulderson
  • Justin Lessin
  • Molly McGill
  • Keiley Meyer
  • Alexis Newlin