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The Baltimore Sun originally published the story (Revisiting our favorite holiday cookie recipes), but the Orlando Sentinel published the photos, and that's what sold me.

It's a soft sugar cookie iced with melted chocolate chips.

Suzanne Laubheimer's Version of the Famous Berger Cookie*
Makes about 4 1/2 dozen

COOKIES:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar (divided use)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

ICING:
3 cups chocolate chips

Beat butter, confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup granulated sugar and salt in a bowl until well blended. Add egg and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy. Sift flour, baking soda and cream of tartar and stir into creamed mixture. Chill about 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

Press to flatten with a glass buttered on the bottom and dipped in remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar. Rebutter if necessary and dip in sugar each time. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown on the edge.

When cookies are cool, melt chocolate chips in a small, heavy-duty saucepan over lowest heat possible; stir. When chips begin to melt, remove from heat and stir. Return to heat for a few seconds at a time, stirring until smooth, then ice cookies.

Note: Don't make cookies on a damp, rainy day because it takes too long for icing to set.

Per cookie: 117 calories, 1 gram protein, 6 grams fat, 4 grams saturated fat, 14 grams carbohydrate, trace fiber, 15 milligrams cholesterol, 26 milligrams sodium

--Suzanne Laubheimer, Parkville, Md.

*Berger Cookies is a Balitmore institution. So famous that the folks at King Arthur Flour got into the act, and tried to reproduce the recipe. Based on feedback from longtime Baltimore eaters, they revised it. Both versions are here at Baltimore's Finest, with illustrated directions for the second version at Baltimore's Finest: The Sequel.. Here they are, with a real Berger Cookie at bottom right, for comparison:

Since I've never had the original, I'll probably go with Suzanne's recipe at the top of this post, which looks simple and will strike familiar notes with the chocolate fiends in my family. And, when it comes to chocolate, I think darker is always better.

Related: The 50 Best Cookie Recipes on the Internet, compiled in August 2007 by Baking Delights.

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