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

For dessert, there’s Grogu's Blue Cookie Shake of creamy soft serve blended with blue sugar cookie syrup and topped with Grogu's favorite snack, which is apparently blue cookies. —Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026

As fans know, the Pink Sugar Cookie is a Crumbl classic, which is an almond sugar cookie topped with a silky pink swirl of almond frosting. —Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above