Sugar cookie

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Sugar cookie

Plain sugar cookies
Type	Cookie
Place of origin	United States
Main ingredients	Flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, or baking soda
Media: Sugar cookie

A sugar cookie, or sugar biscuit, is a cookie with the main ingredients being sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda.^[1] Sugar cookies may be formed by hand, dropped, or rolled and cut into shapes. They may be decorated with additional sugar, icing, sprinkles, or a combination of these. Decorative shapes and figures can be cut into the rolled-out dough using a cookie cutter.

In North America, sugar cookies are popular during the holidays of Children's Day, Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and Hanukkah.^{[citation needed]}