butter cookie

American  

noun

1. Cooking. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.

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Example Sentences

Their surprise ingredient is brown rice miso, which combats the sweetness of a normal peanut butter cookie and heightens the nuttiness.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

The outcome is bright and exhilarating in its depth of flavor, and a perfect contrast to a crust that’s closer to butter cookie than pie.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022

There are now endless minimalist, flourless peanut butter cookie recipes, variations on a Mom-Mom theme, on every food blog you can imagine.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2020

At the cookie counter we focused on our longtime favorites, traditional torchetti — twisted ribbons of a butter cookie — and chocolate-chip Toll House.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2016

And he showed me the peanut butter cookie.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri