It depends! If you're going to a dinner party, bake it first. If you're giving the dish to your friend as a dinner for them to eat sometime (for example they're sick or debilitated and you're helping them out) I would bring it uncooked, with directions for them to cook it themselves.
Ake until almost done, then just heat it up, if it needs it, at her house.
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