10/03/2026
✨ Forkd Spotlight Saturday: Liza's Greek Delights ✨
It started with a love of baking and a desire to share the Greek foods and flavors Liza grew up with.
About 10 years ago, Liza started at the Mansfield farmers market. At the time, she had a full-time job and spent her weekends doing the markets.
What started small eventually grew into her own little Greek bakery: Liza’s Greek Delights.
Meet Liza!
Liza is Greek/British and grew up in Europe, where food was always a huge part of her life.
She describes Liza’s Greek Delights as her “tiny market-style Greek bakery.” It isn't a big commercial bakery or café. It’s a small, slightly tucked-away shop filled with Greek baked goods, breads, baklava, Greek honey, olive oil, teas, spices and products from other small local vendors.
And there is usually something new coming out of her kitchen.
Liza does the baking, creates the flavors and runs the shop herself. Her younger daughter, who is 22, also helps out and runs the shop on Mondays when her work schedule allows.
Her grandmother and mother taught her to cook and bake when she was about 12—and she paid attention.
Greek tradition meets creativity:
Greek food is closely tied to family and tradition for Liza. She loves keeping those familiar Greek flavors and recipes alive, while also having fun with them and creating something completely unexpected.
That creativity really shows up in her baklava.
Instead of making the traditional layered squares many people expect, Liza makes rolled baklava and has created flavors ranging from:
- Original
- Oreo
- Biscoff
- Pecan Pie
- Key Lime Pie
- Dubai Chocolate
- Coconut Dreams
- S'Mores
- Banana Pudding
Greek tradition and American fusion.
And yes, we have to talk about that Banana Pudding Baklava.
Liza is constantly thinking about flavors people already love and asking herself, “Can I turn that into baklava?”
A friend asked her to create Banana Pudding Baklava, and she thought it was just crazy enough to try.
It’s currently a limited flavor, and some of her limited flavors eventually become permanent favorites.
Don't overlook the Greek flatbreads
Liza says the baklava tends to steal the spotlight, but her Greek flatbreads deserve some attention too.
They're topped with things like feta, Kalamata olives, tomatoes, rosemary and red onion, and they show a completely different side of what she makes.
What should you try?
For a first visit, Liza recommends starting with her Original Baklava, because that's where everything started.
Then try one of the specialty flavorsn, probably whichever limited flavor she's excited about that week.
Right now, Banana Pudding would absolutely be in the running.
She also recommends trying one of her Greek flatbreads or spanakopita.
Food, family and memories. ♥️
The traditional Greek items will always mean the most to Liza because they connect her to where she comes from.
Her Original Baklava is especially meaningful because it represents the traditional side of the bakery.
And her Greek chicken and rice Avgolemono Soup is a comfort food that has always been a favorite. Her grandmother used to make it for her, and it brings back memories of home and family.
Liza says that now that her family members are gone, the bakery reminds her of them every day.
She still has a younger brother in Greece, who helps by sending her Greek spices and different things from there.
There's a lot more work behind that piece of baklava than you might think.
Everything is made in small batches, and Liza individually puts her baklava together rather than simply cutting it from one large tray.
It takes about an hour to make each flavor, before the prep work and shopping.
Then come the labels, boxes and packaging.
The baklava also has to sit for about six hours before she can package it, which means Liza is usually up around 3 in the morning to get everything done.
She's constantly testing new flavors, working on the texture and figuring out how to make an idea actually work as baklava.
Some experiments behave beautifully.
Others, according to Liza, apparently have their own plans.
A truly small local bakery
One thing Liza wants people to understand is just how small the operation really is.
People sometimes assume there is a whole bakery team behind everything she makes.
There isn't.
If you've bought baklava from Liza’s Greek Delights, chances are the person handing it to you is also the person who made it.
She also continues to change things up with seasonal and limited-edition baklava flavors, takes preorders and larger orders, and makes spanakopita, Greek flatbreads, breads and traditional Greek cookies and sweets.
The best way to see what she's creating next is to follow the bakery page, because Liza says she's constantly experimenting.
The customers get to help with that experimentation, too!
She recently made a Nutter Butter Baklava after someone suggested the idea. ❤️
Liza says the support from the community has meant everything to her. Customers have become regulars, and regulars have become friends.
And ultimately, that's what Liza’s Greek Delights is:
A very small local market bakery built around one woman's love of baking, Greek food, family memories and a whole lot of ideas for what she can turn into baklava next.
🇬🇷 Liza’s Greek Delights
📍 Burleson, Texas
If you're discovering Liza's Greek Delights through Forkd, her recommendation is simple:
Start with the Original Baklava. Then pick a specialty flavor and have some fun.
Swipe. Match. Eat. ♥️
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