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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

At the restaurant, Wodder cascades salted caramel over fior di latte gelato and tops it with dehydrated crepe toffee and cinnamon butter cookie crumbles.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2022

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

And he showed me the peanut butter cookie.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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