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butter cookie

American  

noun

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


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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

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

The Hershey’s chips would be particularly excellent in a chocolate chip cookie, and we’re very much into the idea of adding caramel chips to a peanut butter cookie.

From Seattle Times Dec. 2, 2019

A classic sablé might have eggs or might not; it has sugar, but it shouldn’t have too much; and it always has butter — it might just as well be called a butter cookie.

From New York Times Aug. 21, 2019

I still had half my peanut butter cookie in my hand, but I dropped it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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