The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
Novelette 7,845 words Recommended by 7 award/anthology sources
The Regent rules as a tyrant, and he has separated Saffron from her husband to force him to bake the amazing confections that let you relive bits of the past.
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.