This is Part 1 of our survey of Food Editors' holiday cookie recipe choices. Here's Part 2.

A reader requested that I survey the food sections for cookies as I do for holiday dinner recipes. Here's the first installment. This week, my colleague Gail Ciampa, the Journal Food Editor, has been baking up a storm as she test new cookie recipes, and we'll have her recommended recipes early next week. (Update: They're in Part 2.)

The New York Daily News goes for beautiful cookies/tree ornaments. Any recipe that includes "super pearl luster dust" deserves respect. Peace Doves are a designer's dream, but my family has earthier tastes, and I am not crafty.

The Moose Jaw (Sask.) Times Herald: Most intriguing name for a cookie, to me, is Black Chocolate Cabernet Cookies, Italian
grandmother's Christmas wine cookie recipe revived for cooking class,

Rochester (Minn.) Post Bulletin: Shortbread takes top spot in cookie contest, Caramel-Pecan Shortbread, Cappuccino Flats, Chocolate Teddy Bears, Fruitcake Cookies.

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Recipes: 2009 winner and finalists: The winner is Almond Triangles (recipe), at left. Finalists are Clare-Oes (like Oreos), French-Swiss Butter Cookies, Kolaches, Persian Molasses Crinkles.

Bonus: Extra cookie recipes the judges liked: Mexican Orange-Cornmeal Sandies, Orange-Ginger Drops, Winter Snowcapped Cookies. Winners from previous years are archived as Taste Holiday Cookies.

The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle continues its annual 12 Days of Cookies tradition; so far, they've published Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies (made with chickpea flour), Benne Wafers, made with sesame, and Green Tea Biscotti.
There's an archive listing on the right of that page with recipes from previous years, including Bacon and Peanut Butter Chocolate Truffles, a recipe whose time may have come on the Internet.

Waterloo (Iowa) Courier: Winners in the Waterloo Courier's holiday cookies contest include Snappy Gingersnaps, Eggnogg Snickerdoodles, Toffee Malted Cookies, Sour Cream Sugar Cookies and Peppermint Sandwich Brownie Drops.

Chicago Tribune 2009 Holiday Cookie Contest winners include Grandma's walnut horns, Mutti's butter cookies, Cherry pie almond thumbprints, Apricot marzipan hearts, Violet Cosimano's fabulous walnut slices. The first three are shown at right.

Newark Advocate: Holiday cookie time is here: Date Nut Balls, Apricot Bars, Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer: Cookie
recipes that are short and sweet: Awesome Chocolate Chunks, Slice-And-Bake Cookies, Walnut Butterballs.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gifts us with about 40 cookie recipes -- and not a single one contains Wisconsin cheese. New cookies hit the tins, Spumoni Bars, Chocolate Butter Pecans, Mexican chocolate icing:, Dark Chocolate Lava Drops, Malted Milk Cookies, Malted milk frosting.

Presenting some great designs, The Reason for the Season Sugar Cookies, Watered-down royal icing, Fondant.

Holiday Cookie Contest: On a sugary high, Almond Buttercreams (Winner, pictured at right), Almond Toffee Bars (Second place), Viennese Jam-Filled Cookies (Third place), Toffee Snowballs (Third place), Sachertorte Cookies (Honorable Mention), Brown-Eyed Susan Cookies (Honorable Mention), Grandma's Orange Cranberry Cookies (Honorable Mention).

Also, Macaroon Fudgies, Door County Cherry Blossoms, Checkerboard Shortbread Cookies, Freckle Flakes, Chai Shortbread, 'My True Love' Turtle Dove Bars (at left), Gingernoggles, Eggnog frosting:, Jolly Holiday Cookies, Cherry chocolate filling, Gingersnap Cookies, Orange Pecan Shortbread, Khurabia (Armenian Sugar Cookies), Thimble Cookies, Rocky Road Cookies, Log Jams, Chocolate Melt-Aways, Peppermint Chocolate Snow Hills, Scotch Brickle Pecan Crescents, Holiday Toffee Shortbread, Mocha Peppermint Swirl Cookies,

Easy treats liven up cookie tray, Santa Claus Cookies, Turtle Cookies So Easy Even Sue Can Make Them.

Cookies willingly give up gluten, Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies, Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies.

Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune: Double Oat Breakfast Cookies. Breakfast cookies, yes!

Cookie Day impossible to resist), Langues de Chat (Cat's Tongues), Canistrelli and Gingery Ginger Cookies.

Gloucester (Ma.) Daily Times: French Sablée, the Chanel of cookies.

Toronto Star: Starlight mint cookies bury a store-bought chocolate mint patty in a basic cookie dough.

Cookie season is still young. More later...