Are these the best maple bars in Orange County?

Are these the best maple bars in Orange County?

His passion, palate and pink shorts are pitch perfect. Brendon Bigcas, 28, is built like a man who spends his mornings braving the glacial waters of the Pacific, not staring down a pastry case. The Laguna Beach resident maintains the calibrated frame of a triathlete, of someone who willingly endured the Ironman 70.3 in Oceanside to, in part, conquer a fear of open water. “I was terrified of swimming, you know, 100 feet away from the shore,” said…