In addition to being holiday season, this is baking season. While cookies are found at parties and traded with friends, they also are all over the internet. I'm not talking about the type of files that are downloaded to your computer, but honest-to-goodness, hot from the oven cookies. This year in addition to finding cookie recipes online, you can surf for cookies, subscribe to various cookie emails and even enter your cookies in a contest. Here is a guide to some of the tastiest online cookie sites.
Butter Is Best has a daily butter newsletter that includes tips and recipes from pastry chef Gale Gand. The site also offers some savory twists on classic cookies such as Salted Ginger Crisps and Rosemary Blue Cheese Ice Box Cookies.
Cooking Light offers Cookie Basics and a related feature how to send cookies in the mail. Their suggestion for a "made to mail" cookie? Crunchy Sesame Cookies.
Epicurious invites you to check out 25 days of Christmas cookies in a slide show. Pistachio and Cherry Mexican Wedding Cakes and Coconut Orange Snowballs are nice updates to classic cookies.
Eating Well has a healthy cookie collection of cookie contest winners. While no-bake Angel Delights was the winning recipe, chocolatey Lava Rocks and Yummy Molasses Crinkles sound pretty good to me.