butter cookies

Rich golden biscuits

Butter cookies are sweet baked treats made with a high proportion of butter, giving them a rich, crumbly texture.

They're typically simple in flavor—buttery and lightly sweet—and often shaped decoratively or pressed through a cookie press.

Danish butter cookies, sold in distinctive blue tins, are perhaps the most recognized variety: The tin of butter cookies became a sewing kit.

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crispy · crumbly · baking · dough · rolling pin · spritz · icing · Christmas · tin · grandmother · melting · sweet · Danish · rolled · cutout · pressed · decorated · teatime

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texture

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Baked goods with thick cane syrup

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fat source/richness

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Whipped, baked foam sweets

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G