Shortbread cookies. HOT mincemeat pie with vanilla ice cream.
Gosh... Just got a tear in my eye, again. Two days ago, I took Mum (83) to a large grocery store downtown that has an amazing display of confections of all sorts. The cakes were visually stunning - very creative and works of culinary art. She resisted buying. At the end of the visit, she went back and looked at them again. We left without a purchase.
Her father was a master baker, trained by monks at a seminary. He and my grandmother had a "corner store" where they also sold baked goods. You can imagine...
On the way home, she said that she had "a thing" for sweets because, at Xmas and Easter, the kids got cake and ice cream. If they were really good, they got extra. That's a bit of the story.