8 cookie recipes to get you in the holiday (bake

Let’s dive into holiday cookies. This week kicked off the return of the Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off , a tradition that began here 15 years ago. The Times is reviving the cookie fest for this season, and recipe submissions are being accepted now until Monday, Oct. 13.

In the last few days, we’ve already received many cookie recipes, and all of the talk of brown butter, chocolate chips, candied oranges, molasses, macadamia nuts, cinnamon, ginger, graham cracker crumbs, cocoa powder, cream cheese and raspberry jam might inspire anyone to want to start rolling out dough to bake — even if it’s 83 degrees in L.A. and the middle of September (though a colleague recently pointed out that we’re less than a hundred days from Christmas).

The most recent Times Holiday Cookie Bake