The holiday cookie recipes are ready!

The Seattle Times' Food department has prepared its annual holiday-cookie mailout.

The recipes are printed on light silver-blue, 8 ½-by-11-inch paper and are attached with a decorative clip. These three-hole-punched pages are great for adding to your own recipe collection or giving as a hostess gift.

If you missed previous years' offerings and would like the 24-recipe packet featuring cookies from 2004, 2005 and 2006, they are also available.

For the 2006 recipes, send $3, and for the three-packet set, send $7, in check or money order (please do not send cash), with your complete mailing address, to:

Holiday Cookies,
The Seattle Times Food Dept.,P.O. 1735,
Seattle, WA 98111

The 2006 recipes:

Holiday Biscotti

Swiss Hazelnut Half-moons

Shortbread Snowflakes

Ginger Pecan Slices

Oma's Butter Walnut Cookies

Mint Chocolate Bars

White Christmas Brownies

Coconut Chocolate Swirlies

The 2004 recipes

Kahlua Fudge Mounds

Cream-Filled Brandy Snaps

Chocolate Mint Nuggets

Buttery Gingersnaps

Almond Delights

Toasted Coconut & Macadamia Nut Clusters

Pumpkin-Ginger Bars

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies

The 2005 recipes

Lemon-Curd Butter Bars

Dark Chocolate-Cherry Bars

Turtle Brownies

Molasses Krinkles

Orange & Five Spice Sugar Cookies

Chocolate French Macaroons

White Chocolate Coconut Cream Bars

Citrus Snowballs