sugar cookie

noun

plural sugar cookies

: a sweet cookie having a high ratio of flour and sugar to butter

… sugar cookies come in all shapes, from cakey-soft, palm-sized vanilla rounds to snapping-crisp, buttery diamonds.

—P. J. Hamel et al.

Sugar cookies have a higher ratio of flour and sugar, which makes them sturdier and more like clay for rolling and cutting.

—Genevieve Ko

This easy sugar cookie dough is perfect for rolling and cutting and bakes into cookies ideal for frosting.

—Vaughn Vreeland

compare butter cookie

Examples of sugar cookie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There were sugar cookies and Argentinian empanadas along with worksheets about what to do if immigration agents showed up at someone’s house and what rights people have in that situation. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026

The cookie franchise features weekly specialty dessert flavors, pink sugar cookie cakes, Dubai-style chocolate cookie brownies, strawberry Biscoff cookies, and Oreo birthday cake cookies, according to its webpage. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

This looks and tastes like somebody had a sugar cookie decorating party that went ham. — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2026

Pair your free drink with one of Swig’s pink-frosted sugar cookies. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 21 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sugar cookie

• bookie
• rookie