WordNet
n. cookie containing much butter
Wikipedia
Butter cookies (or butter biscuits), known as Brysslkex, Sablés, and Danish biscuits, are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to their texture, caused in part because of the quantity of butter and sugar. It is generally necessary to chill the dough to enable proper manipulation and handling. Butter cookies at their most basic have no flavoring, but they are often flavored with vanilla, chocolate, and coconut, and/or topped with sugar crystals. They also come in a variety of shapes such as circles, squares, ovals, rings, and pretzel-like forms, and with a variety of appearances, including marbled, checkered or plain. Using piping bags, twisted shapes can be made. In some parts of the world such as European countries and North America these are often served around Christmas time.
In Denmark, butter cookies in tin boxes are produced and sold there, and are also exported to other countries.
Usage examples of "butter cookie".
Bridge, accepting a sugar-sprinkled butter cookie from the plate Mother held out to her.
She walked around the table and sat down, reaching for another peanut butter cookie.
They shared a giant peanut-butter cookie, and a crowd of pigeons followed them down the sidewalk feasting on the river of crumbs that flowed from Sophie's stroller.
They shared a giant peanut-butter cookie, and a crowd of pigeons followed them down the sidewalk feasting on the river of crumbs that flowed from Sophie&rsquo.
Faile accepted a butter cookie from a young al'Seen girl, who curtsied and blushed furiously, A the while staring at Faile in wide-eyed admiration.
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny all knew that if he figured out a way to seize their fortune, he would slit the throats of the Baudelaire orphans as easily as you or I might eat a small butter cookie.