• Readers offer bounty of recipes for Times' Annual Christmas Cookie issue
  Peppermint and chocolate. Lemon and coconut. Cinnamon and pumpkin. Really, what's not to be giddy about, especially when those flavors mingle on a cookie tray tempting passers-by at holiday gatherings?
• Sweet Dreams: Two dozen reader-submitted Christmas cookies
• When it comes to baking pans, size matters
• Taster's choice: Chocolate chips

• Even Santa will be impressed with these cookies
  Share 5 favorite cookie recipes and some fun facts about the holiday cookie fascination with your friends and family on Facebook or Pinterest.

• 2011 Cookie Hall of Fame
• 2010 Sugary Visions
• 2009 Mmmm, holiday cookies
• 2008 Cookie recipes to sweeten your holidays
• 2007 Cookie magic
• 2006 From their recipe files to yours
• 2005 Bake more, they're small
• 2004 The joy of cookies
• 2003 The best from our bake shop
• 2002 Which look good to you?

Christmas cookies 2012: Two dozen reader favorites

Presenting Christmas cookie recipes from Tampa Bay Times readers has become a holiday tradition. In 2012, we celebrate our 11th year of providing readers' beloved holiday recipes. Each year, we ask readers to submit their favorite Christmas cookie recipes and we slim down the submissions, offering the top 24 tested recipes. In 2012, we received more than 600 submissions and from that tall pile of cookie recipes, we selected about 30 to be tested. The result is two-dozen wonderful Christmas cookie recipes that the Tampa Bay Times hopes will become a holiday tradition in your home.