Danish Luxury

Candy Chocolate Anthon Berg

Marcipanbrød

A bar of marzipan coated in chocolate, made by Anthon Berg since 1898 and sold in six flavours.

First made
1898

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A marzipan bread cut open, marzipan in chocolate
A marzipan bread cut open, marzipan in chocolate
An early box of six wrapped marzipan breads
An early box of six wrapped marzipan breads

Pictures © Anthon Berg, from tomsgroupheritage.com.

Why it is renowned

The marzipan bread is the product Anthon Berg is best known for, and it has become a Danish classic.12 In 1956 it went on sale on the ferry from Copenhagen to Landskrona, and later that year on SAS flights from Copenhagen.3

The story

Anthon Berg began selling confectionery from his shop on Gammel Strand in Copenhagen in 1884, and the queue outside it grew steadily. To treat the waiting customers he invented the marzipan bread and handed out small pieces of it; in 1898 it went into production as a product of its own.2

It comes as classic marzipan in dark chocolate, Nougat, Cognac, Mocca, Hasselnød and Baileys, the newest, in large and small sizes.4

  • Toms, made at the Toms plant in Ballerup
  • Odense Marcipan, Danish marzipan, made in Odense since 1909
  • Pure Amande, Summerbird's marzipan in dark chocolate
Sources
  1. Anthon Berg, Wikipedia (Danish). da.wikipedia.org, read 16 October 2026.
  2. Anthon Berg, Marcipan Brød (archived copy of 2007-05-10). web.archive.org, read 16 October 2026.
  3. The International Journey, Toms Group Heritage. tomsgroupheritage.com, read 16 October 2026.
  4. Anthon Berg, Produkter (archived copy of 2025-11-19). web.archive.org, read 16 October 2026.

Last checked 16 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.