What makes a sugar cookie a sugar cookie?

Answer 1

A cookie is a small cake or sweet biscuit that is baked on a flat surface and eaten with the hand. There is some overlap in the baked goods that are called cookies, sweet biscuits, muffins and small cakes.

Answer 2

It comes from an older Dutch word, koekje, which means little cake.

Answer 3

It is mostly made out of sugar.
They have sugar in it