Holiday cookies inc.

Cookie week is not really over. Far from it. Heavy bouts of holiday baking are expected to perfume the Washington area this weekend -- especially as cookie exchange clubs and swaps have one last chance to do their thing.

To that end, we're onpassing additional inspiration: 2008's top 20 most-viewed cookie recipes from our Recipe Finder archives. (FYI, the best way to find holiday cookie recipes is to use the database's Advanced Search function; choose "Dessert" from the Course options and "Christmas" or "Hanukkah" from the Holidays options.)

This is just in case you weren't enthralled with this year's collection of 25. (Okay, the bottom crust of the Raspberry Snow Bars has given some readers fits. The recipe directions online have been expanded and clarified; ingredient amounts were not the problem. Hopefully we've worked through the issues of those who have e-mailed us, and any enmity they harbored has gone all gooey, overtaken by the warmth of the season's good wishes. Or at least that's what I'll be thinking at the Food/Travel potluck tomorrow night.) Happy baking!

-- Bonnie Benwick