How to Use butter cookie in a Sentence
butter cookie
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For something richer, try shortbread or butter cookies.
—Martha Stewart, 11 May 2026
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Think gingersnaps, molasses cookies, brown butter cookies, and drop cookies.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 10 Aug. 2026
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This can be helpful for crisp, buttery cookies like shortbread, slice-and-bake cookies, butter cookies, or very sugary doughs that are prone to over-browning.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
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The pastry selection also includes karidopita (Greek walnut cake), kourabiedes (wedding cookies), koulourakia (butter cookies) and melomakarona (honey cookies).
—Gail Ciampa, The Providence Journal, 2 Sep. 2026
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There’s something for everyone in this assortment, which includes dark chocolate orange biscuits, cinnamon biscuits, milk chocolate biscuits, shortbread cookies, butter cookies with the Maxim’s de Paris logo, and more.
—Tim Chan, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
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About 50 people filtered into the Perez Architecture Center for the event, many holding plates of danishes and boxes of Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies laid on tables by the entrance.
—Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
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