Athan's Bakery brings European pastries and cafe fare to Boston with a selection of handmade treats, from pound cakes and gelato to baklava, gateaux, and chocolates. There's also a location in Brighton.

This decades-old bakery in the North End is a family-owned operation open 24 hours a day, a rare schedule in Boston. The bakery has bread, cookies, pastries, tarts, and even sandwiches (aka "spuckies") and pizza.

Classic French viennoiserie pour out of this relatively new South End bakery, elegantly finished and quickly devoured. Croissants, cinnamon rolls, muffins, fruit tarts, cookies, brownies, and madeleines abound in this cafe, alongside La Colombe coffee beverages.

If you're not leaving Clear Flour with a chocolate chunk cookie, you're doing it wrong. This bakery is tucked away near Packard's Corner and has a full range of breads, along with decadent pastries from the cookies to the tarts, tea cakes, morning buns, croissants, and much more.

This local group of bakeries has a loyal following in Boston, for a good reason. Founder Joanne Chang and her team craft a menu of rich pastries, including the famous sticky buns that you won't want to share but may have to. Other sweet options include cookies and tarts, a Boston cream pie cake, and a line-up of gluten-free desserts as well. There are currently four locations around Boston and Cambridge; three more are set to open in late 2016-early 2017.

Say hello to fresh pies, coconut macaroons, baked breads, doughnuts, cupcakes, cookies, meringue pies, and so much more from this Cambridge bakery, which has two locations. Hi-Rise also serves non-sweets, like salads and sandwiches, if you're into that sort of thing.

Founded in 1992, this Eastie bakery specializes in Latin American treats, from buñuelos to flan, rolled cakes, croissants, and churros. There are also cupcakes, cookies, and beverages.

This 25-year-old bakery specializes in butter cookies. In addition to decorated options, there's a hefty list of other cookie varieties, including florentines, shortbreads, sandwich cookies, linzers, and much more. There are also flourless, nut-free, and egg-free options available. And there are cakes.

Dating back to 1887, Lyndell's is a storied baked goods provider in Greater Boston. It specializes in everything from cupcakes to Italian pastries, black and white cookies, eclairs, breads, pies, cookies, and more.

This Italian bakery fills the North End with cannoli, baba rum cakes, lobster tails, marzipan, and so much more. Family-run since 1982, Maria's also offers seasonal specialties, including Thanksgiving pies, Easter pastries, and Osse di Morti for All Soul's Day.

While best-known for its cannoli, Mike's is also well-known for the bitter debate that wages among Boston residents over whether they are "Mike's people" or "Modern people." The two bakeries sit on opposite sides of Hanover street, and Mike's churns out piles and piles of cannoli, lobster tails, cream puffs, biscotti, gelato, marzipan, and more. Mike's expanded to Cambridge's Harvard Square in 2014 and will expand to Somerville's Assembly Row in 2017.

As the name implies, this spot specializes in cakes, in all forms. There are customizable cakes, sculpted options, designer cakes, and gourmet buttercream options, thickly frosted. Oakleaf also has cookies, muffins, brownies, and specialty house-made pop tarts.

This Italian pastry shop first opened in 1942 and serves pastries, cakes, cookies, and special occasion cakes that are customizable. There are two locations, one in East Cambridge and one in Lexington.

If themed erotic cakes are the order of the day, Sweet 'n Nasty is ready to deliver. This recognizable bakery in Back Bay has been around for more than 30 years, producing naughty cakes, cupcakes, and chocolates that are sold alongside party supplies, toys, and more.

Another locally-grown bakery and cafe, Tatte offers fine European-style pastries, cookies, pain au chocolat, kouign amann, croissants, brioche, and so much more. With a newly opened cafe in Harvard Square and a handful of others around the city, Tatte bakes pastries and breads fresh daily and serves a range of coffee beverages along with cafe fare and weekend brunch.