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5 DIY holiday recipes and crafts to avoid supply chain problems

New York Times food writer Priya Krishna says Dorie Greenspan's World Peace 2.0 cookie are impossible to hate.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, as they say. That is, unless you ordered the latest gadget too late, and now it's stuck in supply chain limbo.

Or if you are the kind of person who leaves their shopping until it's down to the wire, like Daniel Gritzer, the culinary director of Serious Eats.

"I am very much a last-minute gift giver, scouring the internet and thinking of all the things I'd probably have thought of four months ago to then not be able to remember them, and have to fake something else in desperation," Gritzer says.

Whatever your struggle, we have got you covered this holiday season.

We have asked Gritzer and other food makers and crafters to make the case for going the homemade route this season and have provided the following recipes and project instructions:

  • OVEN DRIED GRAPES, by Dan Gritzer from Serious Eats
  • WORLD PEACE COOKIES 2.0, by Dorie Greenspan
  • CHILE CRISP, by Genevieve Ko from The New York Times
  • SPA IN A JAR, by Aris Rossi from Sailing Into Second
  • DRAWSTRING BAGS, by Ursula Carmona from Homemade

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