Well, of course that is what I was thinkin'!
My wife worked with a woman in DC who never cooked. Never. But she kept a roll of cookie dough in the freezer. When company was coming over, she'd go to the bakery and pick up a dozen cookies, she'd come home, sprinkle some flour or sugar on a platter and put the cookies out. Then she'd slice off one cookie and bake it so the house smelled like fresh baked cookies...