With Ballard un-Ballardizing itself at a breakneck pace and bakeries and restaurants upscaling the old school, a good streudel can be hard to find, and treats like rum balls have become an endangered holiday-party-only sighting. The wee Hillcrest Bakery in downtown Bothell serves both, along with a bunch of cookies and specialty baked good you might remember grandma bringing home or attempting to bake for special occasions. They make an oh-so-simple Jon Hail bar (cookie? square? pastry?) that tastes like a rich pie dough coated in sugar and slivered almonds. The prices are extremely reasonable, and sometimes an old-school nanaimo bar just satisfies better than the most perfect croissant.Hillcrest Bakery10010 Main St., Bothell, 425-486-5292, open at 6:00 a.m. Mon-Sat, inexplicably closed on Sundays