Well, my dad owned a bakery for a number of decades, so I pretty much had years to try everything out and narrow it down to one tasty treat. However, it turns out there's never enough time and the evaluation process continues!
I'd have to say some of my favorites were those items "off the menu", so to speak. The
Mille Feuille cake was probably the most popular cake he made for special occasions, but my favorite was a simpler cake with layers of white cake drenched in apricot liquor and smothered in butter cream. Good stuff. Another favorite was the Nougatina that he made, not too chocolaty but still very rich.
And then of course there were those items he made exclusively for our family.
Bougatsa, which we had for breakfast on the weekends and of course the
loukoumades (made the Northern Greece way: deep fried dough balls, then dunked in syrup and optionally also dunked in
Nutella). So ya, I was pretty fat as a kid.
Ok, as for stuff on the menu, I'd probably have to say a typical doughnut taken straight out of the deep fryer and thrown into a vat of sugar and cinnamon. It's almost as good as the loukoumades. But aside from that, I would typically go for the date squares. I love dates and rolled oats, so the two combined are unbeatable. And they're almost healthy to boot! So ya, good stuff.