Bring on the plague of locusts house guests! The internet abounds in holiday cookies and articles. Here's a quick round up:

• New York Times food writer Mark Bittman offers The Mother Of All Butter Cookies. This is a single recipe which can be divided into four parts and used to create four different kinds of cookies. (Citrus, chocolate chip, ginger, and spice cookies.) The recipe can be used to make drop cookies, or refrigerated to make rolled cookies. Bittman has written the recipe to be mixed in the food processor, just to make holiday baking a little bit easier.
• Martha Stewart is on the scene, offering three recipes from her book "Martha Stewart's Cookies." The recipes look delicious and surprisingly easy, given Martha's tendency to over-complicate things.
• The Toronto Star has published a recipe for beautiful Stained Glass Cookies. These are sugar cookies with a "stained glass" center made of melted Jolly Ranchers or Life Savers. The recipe looks easy, and the cookies look absolutely gorgeous. But I have to admit, the idea of a sugar cookie with a melted Jolly Rancher center gives me pause.
• For something both delicious and thematic, try these Peppermint Bark Chocolate Cookies from the Simply Recipes blog. (This is a recipe by guest blogger Garrett McCord, who runs the intoxicating cupcake blog Vanilla Garlic.)
• Once you've baked your cookies, then what? The Canadian Press offers Suggestions for what to drink with holiday cookies. The unusual but intriguing pairings include snickerdoodles with cream soda, and popcorn balls with farmhouse Belgian ale.