A soft, cake-like shortbread base buried under a thick cap of fudge that is heavier than the cookie itself. The Berger cookie is a Baltimore icon, sold through grocery stores across the city.

The Berger cookie traces to a German baker, George Berger, who brought the recipe to East Baltimore in the 1830s. The modern version is a plain vanilla cookie topped with a famously thick layer of chocolate fudge, the cap deliberately outweighing the base. DeBaufre Bakeries has produced them for decades, and they remain a near-universal Baltimore souvenir, stacked at supermarket checkouts and corner stores across the region.

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