Got a hankering for a good, old-fashioned Sugar Cookie?

Maybe your sweet tastes are set on some Russian Tea Balls or Peanut Butter Blossoms.

Or you might want to feed your chocolate cravings with Chocolate Peppermint Oreo Truffles or Fiesta Fudge Cookies.

For a brief hour Saturday morning, the church hall at St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church in Warrington was filled with men, women and the occasional child all on a quest for sugary treats to fill their holiday dessert tables – and maybe a few tummies - before the holidays arrive.

They came for a Cookie Walk.

To the uninitiated, that means the organizers hand you a disposable glove and plastic container and you grab as many cookies as you want.

Don't like nuts? Not a problem. Skip over the Nut Crescents and head for the Gingerbread. There were even gluten-free cookies.

When you're finished, containers are weighed and you're charged by the pound (This year's cost was $9 per pound). 

While the Cookie Walk started at 9 a.m., people came early to get a prime spot, since the walk ends when they're sold out.  It's a matter of first come, first served. And when the stakes are a seemingly endless variety of cookies in all shapes, colors and flavors, winner does take all.

Three years ago when the event first started, the 8,000 cookies made by the ladies at St. Anne sold out in 35 minutes, said Karen Wiley, who co-chaired this year's Cookie Walk.

In preparation for the sale, 36 parishoners spent the week beforehand baking batches and batches of cookies - 44 different types.

This year's crowd looked as if it had at least doubled in size from last year, she said, as trays of cookies, many refilled several times, started to stay empty around 9:45 a.m.

"People buy them and freeze them for Christmas, or give them as gifts," Wiley explained, while weighing cookies at check-out. "People are just too busy to cook – and we have a large variety here that you don't find elsewhere."

Some of those were Ukrainian specialties, such as Khrustyky (pieces of fried dough that are sprinkled with powdered sugar) and Kiffles, which are very labor intensive, according to Natalia Bunik, one of the bakers. Both of those delicacies were packaged and sold separately from the other cookies.

Bunik said a group of about five women worked about 12 hours Friday to prepare the Kiffles.

The dough was formed into balls and chilled the night before. Then they're rolled out and cut into triangles, given dollops of nut, raspberry, apricot or prune filling, and formed into small, cigar-shaped pastries before baking.

The end result: light and buttery pastries that would be perfectly at home as a go-with for a hot mug of coffee or tea.

Proceeds from the Cookie Walk go to the church for its maintenance.