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butter cookie

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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

The peanut butter cookie sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies transported me right back to my childhood.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

When, several years ago, the New York Times' Julia Moskin attempted a "reverse-engineered" version of said "greatest peanut butter cookie in existence," I took a crack at it.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2020

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

Guitar’s eyes rested on the last butter cookie in Milkman’s hand.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison