Peppermint Bark
Stella, the youngest of the Sweeting Sisters, comes home for Christmas. She enters a holiday baking competition in hopes of avenging her sister’s recent loss. By winning the Grand Snowflake Award it will prove that she is not just a chef, but a Sweeting Baker.
After the rules change to spite the Sweeting sisters, she has to scramble to find a new recipe. One of her sisters recommends taking a walk to let the ideas flow. She ends up unwittingly on Noel Caroll’s Christmas Tree Farm.
Noel, not so affectionately nicknamed The Grinch, might have the answers to her taking home the trophy.
Sensitive Content:
- Explicit sexual content
- Getting lost in the woods
- Bickering sisters
- Feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem
- Internalized fatphobia
- Referenced
Pacemaker failure
Death of parents, grandparents
Car accident (Death)
Osteosarcoma, Dementia
Recreational marijuana use
Irish Cream Bundt Cake
Sloane, the oldest of the Sweeting Sisters, has devoted her life to upholding her family’s legacy and keeping her sisters in line. She learns the hard way to not accept help from her youngest sister’s goofy boyfriend when the oven goes on the fritz. Murphy shows up, a sweet talking appliance repairman with an Irish accent, offers to fix the oven for the cost of parts if she makes his grandmother’s authentic Irish cream bundt cake.
After spending time with Murphy, she starts wondering if there’s more to life than just bundt cakes and managing her sisters.
Sensitive Content:
- Explicit sexual acts
- Praise, degradation
- Parentification of a child (eldest daughter)
- Inapropriate use of kitchen tools (joke)
- Referenced:
Car accident (death)
cheating (parent)
Narcissism
