With the holidays fast approaching, it seems timely to share three more nominations from readers for best recipes from the Pillsbury Bake-Off, this time for cookies. I'd heard of one of them, Cherry Winks, but the other two were new to me.

Lois Millheim of Nazareth, Pa., writes that she has been making Coconut Islands for many years. The recipe was a 1953 third-prize winner for Sister Maria Jose Cannon, a Roman Catholic nun from Honolulu who, it was reported at the time, donated the $2,500 purse to her Maryknoll order. It's a moist chocolate cookie with chocolate frosting and a snowy cap of coconut.

Ruth Whalen Kreiger of Palmetto Bay has been baking Cherry Winks since they won first prize in the junior category in 1950. Kreiger says she uses green maraschino cherries along with the red ``to jazz them up for Christmas.'' I was skeptical about the cornflakes, but they add a wonderful bit of sweet crunch.

Carol Janssen of Huntsville, Ala. sent the recipe for the Lemon Mardi Gras Squares. ``These are very lemony, tart but sweet enough, and they pack and keep really well,'' she writes. She says she likes to tint the vanilla glaze with red food coloring for her holiday cookie trays.