Tell Us About Your Favorite Christmas Cookies

It happens every late November. Instead of featuring women with impossibly thin bodies, the magazine covers display dazzling Christmas cookies instead, as if we all have permission to forget about dieting at least until after New Year's.

So what kinds of cookies do you need to have every year — the ones that everyone begs you to make or buy?

Are they beautifully decorated sugar cookies, or lumpy macaroons that taste way better than they look? Do you stock up on butter by the pound, or do you simply pick up the phone and place an order with your favorite bakery.

Each Tuesday, Patch will ask about your favorite foods so we can all share ideas and suggestions. So break out the rolling pin, and let's talk Christmas cookies!