Petite Sweets

I'm going big on tiny desserts.

Good morning! I hope you’re taking care of yourself and chasing whatever work or dreams (both?) that you’re focused on for January.

Turkish Delight.

I’m done with big desserts.

Why, you say? Certainly there’s a place for big wedding cakes and Thanksgiving pies.

Yes.

But most of the time I don’t want to eat a huge slice of cake. Or a giant cookie. Or the largest croissant ever.

Perhaps I want something small, but a little more special than a block of a chocolate bar. Why is that so often the suggested option in women’s magazines? It kind of works until it doesn’t.

A massive croissant.

Maybe I don’t want to bake 24-32 cookies. Or maybe I don’t want a cookie that on its own is a thousand calories.

Maybe I don’t want to guilt people into eating something they don’t want to eat or worse yet, can’t eat.

Maybe you’re like me and you’ve repeatedly watched as someone bakes a huge cake for an event, slices are given out, and everyone leaves 2/3 of the “cake”—the flowers, decorations, fondant, sprinkles and icing—behind in a unappetizing heap on their plate.

I’m here to make sweet treats that I love just a bit smaller.

I understand that our culture and many other cultures developed out of farming communities where people would regularly burn through thousands of calories because they worked from dawn until dusk, often outside in the elements and the raw hunger to replace all that work with fuel made sense. I started working out more a couple months ago, and yes I definitely feel deep hunger again after not knowing that feeling for years.

I’m not here to guilt you if you occasionally have a tray of tiramisu, which I had once after my high school graduation party when I found it in the fridge and I was starving after a very long and cold 2-hour swim practice in high school. Your body lets you know.

I’m here to say that I’m a petite lady that more times than not wants a petite treat that’s just enough.

If this resonates with you, please share with a friend!