We give a short, self-contained proof of two key results from a paper of four of the authors. The first is a kind of weighted discrete Prekopa-Leindler inequality. This is then applied to show that if $A, B subseteq mathbb{Z}^d$ are finite sets and $U$ is a subset of a quasicube then $|A + B + U| geq |A|^{1/2} |B|^{1/2} |U|$. This result is a key ingredient in forthcoming work of the fifth author and Palvolgyi on the sum-product phenomenon.