Time and time again, it happens. I'll have my schedule planned out for all the goodies I want to bake for my friends and family. I'll have my kitchen set up like an assembly line, with cookie sheets taking up every counter space available. Gift boxes, treat bags, tissue paper and ribbon are scattered haphazardly all over the kitchen table. If I'm ahead of the game, I'll have an early start in the morning and be finished by dinner. But most of the time, I'm baking late into the night. And then it happens. Something always happens. I run out of an ingredient and it's too late to go run to the store. I burn a batch of cookies (or two) because I had my headphones on with my music too loud, and I didn't hear the oven timer (yes, I realize now I should be using my phone timer instead). As a result, I don't have enough cookies to fill all the boxes. And the biggest thing that happens...I run out of time.
But don't worry, I've got a backup plan...
