Have you ever experienced one of the following situations?

It's Wednesday night and your child comes home from school and tells you he needs 4 dozen cupcakes for school next Friday. You work full-time, you have two kids, a dog and husband. Who has time to bake or even go to the bakery?

Your office is having a pot luck and you were asked to bring dessert. You're a take-out kind of person, but know everyone will be annoyed if you just went to the store for your part in the lunch.

It's a week before Thanksgiving and your cousin just called to say that her family can make it to dinner, now - all six of them will be staying for the weekend. Now that you have to clean the guest room and dig out the sleeping bags, you don't have time to make your famous pumpkin cookies.