Food stylist Holly goes home for Christmas to find that Mrs. Rose is going to sell her bakery where Holly worked as a youngster and where they always buy their Christmas cookies every year. But Rose plans to have a competition and if there is someone who can bake as good cookies as her, this person will keep the bakery going. Holly enters the competition despite not being very good at baking. There she also gets competition from Brad, who moved to the city from Florida to work as a dessert chef at the local restaurant.
Well, as a romantic film it meets most requirements. Possibly, it can also feel a little liberating to avoid a twisted "problem" at the end of the film.