You don't have to know how to bake to enjoy Christmas cookies and other holiday sweets. If you'd rather leave the spatula work to someone else, check out these upcoming cookie scenes:

Lawrenceville's International Cookie Festival offers shoppers a chance to taste cookies from around the world while browsing for holiday gifts. The free event begins tonight and lasts through Sunday.

Pick up a map at any one of the 16 participating businesses between 36th and 54th streets along Butler Street, at the corner of 38th and Penn Avenue, and on 43rd Street. The international tour will be held today from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., tomorrow and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact Mary Coleman at 412-683-6488.

Homemade cookies, nut rolls and other Eastern European delicacies will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 9 at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, 450 Maxwell Drive, Whitehall. Call 412-882-3900.

More cookies can be found at the Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church's Holiday Cookie and Gift Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 9. There will be 33 gift booths. Tea, scones, soup and bread wll be available, along with gift wrapping and child care. Call 412-531-7131.

Lebanese and other ethnic cookies and pastries will be available during the "cookie walk" at Our Lady of Victory Church, 1000 Lindsay Road, Scott from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 16. Call 412-278-0841.

And for still more ideas for holiday treats -- from cookies and petit fours to buche de noel and chocolate bark -- check out our Food & Flavor section on Dec. 7, when we'll look at some of the best Christmas bakeries in Pittsburgh and all the holiday goodies they make at this special time of year.