Cookies or cupcakes? That is the question.
Well, I couldn’t decide either. You see I’ve been mesmerized by a recipe for snickerdoodle cupcakes from Martha Stewart’s Cupcake Book. But, seeing as how I have never made snickerdoodle cookies, I had to make them, too. It’s only fair. Or at least it’s a good excuse… right?
These cookies were really easy to make and I’m not sure why I’ve never tried them before now. Maybe their name made them seem difficult or too fancy or something. Or, maybe it’s because they don’t have any chocolate in them. Yeah, that’s probably why. Recipes without chocolate usually get moved to the bottom of the list.
The cookie dough is rolled in cinnamon and sugar, which gives them their signature look when baked.
Simple and pretty!
Here’s the original Snickerdoodle Recipe from marthastewart.com. It makes about 4 dozen cookies.
And here is how I tweaked it slightly to make about 20 cookies.
Snickerdoodle Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Now… time to make the cupcakes.
Here’s the original recipe from marthastewart.com that makes 28.
And here is how I tweaked it slightly to make enough for 12 cupcakes and 12 mini cupcakes (not shown).
Make this seven minute frosting. To decorate, pipe on frosting, place one cookie on top and then pipe another dollop of frosting on top. Sprinkle with leftover cinnamon and sugar from the Snickerdoodle cookie recipe. Store in an airtight container.
Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting. I used the same one Martha recommends. It’s a Seven-Minute Frosting. Recipe here.
I’ve gotta tell you… I’d definitely make the cookies and cupcakes again… they were yummy. But I think I would have to try them with another frosting. The seven minute frosting was kind of a pain to make and couple that with the fact that I’m not a big fan of light and airy or meringue-tasting frostings… well, I don’t think I’ll be making it again anytime soon.
But they sure do look cute.
By the way, did you even notice these super adorable cupcake pedestals? They come in a box of 6. Thank you Naomi, for sending me the link. And, the brown cupcake liners are from www.confectioneryhouse.com.
Cookies or cupcakes? Cupcakes or cookies?
Hard choice, I know.
Here – let me make it a little more difficult with a few pictures from the inside of each of these books.
Do you want one?
Martha Stewart’s Cookies
or Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes
- Just leave a comment on this post and let me know which book you would rather have. You get to choose. Easy.
- Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win.
- Deadline to enter is Tuesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. ET
- One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening on this post.
Good Luck!
OK… TIME’S UP! I actually started counting all of the entries to see how many people wanted the cupcake book vs. how many wanted the cookie book. But, I stopped after a couple hundred comments because there was no way I would be able to get that done tonight in time to announce the winner. But fyi, in the first two hundred plus entries, cookies were slightly edging out cupcakes.
That’s good news for about half of you. Because all you cookie lovers are going to get another chance another day. The winner of today’s giveaway is a cupcake lover.
Congratulations Bailey! 1,751 is your lucky number.
I’m going to have to go with the cupcake book. I have several cookie books already. Maybe this will motivate me to get back to baking more!
The cookie one! I love baking cookies!!
Hello! I totally want the cupcake book. In fact, my birthday is tomorrow and it is on my wish list! Thanks!
Cookies!! They remind me of cool weather, we need some of that here in Texas…. love the cookie/cupcake duo! :)
Cupcakes or Cookies?
It is such a hard choice as I love them both so very much!
I am going to have to go with COOKIES!
I make them so much more….sorry cupcakes!
The books look awesome, thank you for this giveaway.
I love Bakerella!
I already have the cupcake book but would love to get the cookie book!
Cookies for sure!!! Yum!
Cookies!
Ah! So hard to choose! Uhm…the cupcake cookbook!
I want COOKIES!!!!! I have a lot of work ahead of me, and need to have the tools to make nice cookies! 7,000 foot elevation is a nasty thing, I made CC cookies last night and they ran all together until I had ONE BIG COOKIES, so flat that the CC stood up, not good.
Please help in my education of the perfect cookie!
Ooooooohhhh, i’d LOVE the cookie book!!!
Cookies please!
cupcakes because I already have the cookie one!!! Thanks
Cupcakes all the way! I watched the Martha Cupcake week and thought the ones they came up with were so inventive. Thanks for sharing a new one!
How cute! I’m a cookie fanatic! I would love the cookie book. :)
That’s such a tough decision! Cupcakes are all the rage right now, but cookies endure. I’d be so happy for either, but would secretly be so excited to get the Cupcakes. Cupcakes, final answer.
The cookie cookbook would be great! You are always coming up with the cutest ideas!! Keep them coming!
Both look so awesome!!! I think I’d like the cookie one, though. Man, I love your stuff!!! I love when I have a free day and get to try something from your blog. You rock!
I would LOVE to have a cupcake book! My husband and I have started a coffee shop through our church and I’m in charge of stocking it with goodies every Sunday and Wednesday evening! It’s such a blessing to bless the community and offer free coffee, goodies, internet, and music each week!
I think I would like the cupcake book, both look great tho, I love to bake
Ahh hard choice as I love cupcakes but have so many cupcake books already, so I would have to choose cookies. I love those stands and your website, you an awesome talent!! Those books would make a great gift!!
Kim W
I would take either, I am fan of both cookies and cupcakes. I guess if I HAD to choose I would pick the cookie book since most of my family would choose to bake cookies over cupcakes. BTW I love LoVe LOVE your blog.
I don’t own either and I would really like the cookie book!!!
I would love the cupcake book! Thank you for a great site and all of your wonderful ideas.
I would like the cookie one because my roommate loves cookies.
If I HAVE to choose… hmmmm… I’d say cupcakes. :)
I love Martha’s cookie cookbook and would really love to have the CUPCAKE one also. I think I may have to get my hands on some of those cupcake pedestals too!!!
Thanks for sharing these look sooo yummy! I would love to have the cupcake book.
I would love to have the cookie book!
Snickerdoodles are my all time favorite cookie! They’ve especially come in handy while watching my caffeine intake while I’m going through the last few weeks of my pregnancy. I might have to waddle into the kitchen to try to bake some of those Snickercakes. Mmmm!
I would say I’m definitely a sucker for cupcakes when it comes down to it, but who would turn down a perfectly good cookie? Only crazy people.
I think I have to say cookies. As much as I love cupcakes, cookies seem to be the favorite at my house!
Thanks!
The Cupcake Book please. I could eat it all!
Cookies! I am terrible at making cookies and was just thinking the other day that I need some new recipes!
oh! either one! probably the cookie book though, i actually made the first cookies pictured under the word COOKIES in that photo! i got them off martha stewart . com they were delicious espresso cookies!!
I would love the cookie book! they look like so much fun.
epricegirl@hotmail.com
Wow, tough choice. The cupcake book looks like fun :-)
cupcakes!!! if not both heehee!!! looks yum!!!!
ooo i’m gonna go with cupcakes. they look cuter
I really want the cookie book.
I am all for cookies. I don’t know about anyone else but cake is to fluffy for me I need something that sits in my stomach to make me feel like I have had dessert. Love cookies.
I didn’t even know the Cupcakes book existed. Have had the Cookies book for a while – it is splattered with chocolate, has butter stains and dog-eared pages and is definitely well-loved. Check out Martha’s pumpkin cookies in that book for a great seasonal treat. Would love to try the Cupcakes recipes too.
Cookies or Cupcakes…..that is such a HARD choice!! But since i have to choose ill say CUPCAKES!!!! :)
They are both too cute, but I think the cupcake one is calling my name! Thanks Bakerella!
Cupcakes please! I even just got a new cupcake stand that is black with spiderweb cupcake holders on it. Just in time for Halloween. :-)
I would really love the cookie cookbook since my family are cookie people and are not much into cupcakes.
I love both! If I had to choose, I’d go cupcake.
Wow – those look scrumptious! I love cupcakes so the cupcake cookbook would be perfect for me!
My all time favorite cookie is snickerdoodles! I just recently also tried Martha Stewart’s snickerdoodle cupcake recipe! So yummy! My latest addiction is snickerdoodle muffins(http://www.eatmedelicious.com/2007/12/snickerdoodle-muffins.html)! Melt in your mouth oo-la-la!! You gotta try them! I would love to have the cookie cookbook!
Cookies for sure! Sometimes cupcakes are too filling, but cookies you can eat on the run! Love to find fresh new recipes all the time!
Thanks!
I’d love the cupcake book (although I’d happily bake my way through either).
I’d have to go with cupcakes. I love cookies, but I pretty much only make chocolate chip, no matter how many recipes for cookies I have.
That’s easy, the cupcake book. I love to make cupcakes. And I love snickerdoodle anything. Thanks, Bakerella!!!!
As my nephew says, “Cuppy cakes, please!”
I would love the cupcake book. My girls and I are always looking for something fun to do together.
i would love, love, love the cookie book!
So hard to choose. I’ll have to say…the Cupcake book! Would love either of them though. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love the cookie cookbook! I’ve been trying my hand a new cookies lately :) Thanks so much for the giveaway!
I just got “Hello Cupcake” and I’d love the cupcake book to make some yummy cupcakes to decorate!
These are so cute!!! i want a cupcake book please! just contact me at the above email if im a winner!
OMG…that is such a HARD decision…but if I HAD to choose I would go for the cookie book (but I’d be happy with the cupcake one too) :-D!
The cookie book!!
I really would love either. But if I had to choose it would be the cookie book.
cookies
Cookies please!!
Definitely the cupcake book! There is nothing more comforting than a beautifully decorated, decadent, creamy, ooey gooey mound of goodness, we call cupcake?
I LOVE cookies…you can never have to many cookie books!!!
Those cupcakes look so good, I haven’t ever had a snickerdoodle either. They don’t look they way I had imagined them to look.
I would love the cookie book because I didn’t know she had one out!! I do have the cupcake book and I LOVE it!! :)
What a fun experiment! I love all kinds of cookies, but my husband’s hands-down favorite is chocolate chip, so that’s what I make most often.
That being said, I’d love the cupcake book…I already own the cookie book. Not sure why I haven’t bought the cupcake one yet!!
I love cupcakes, so the cupcake book sounds really fun.
I’d really like to have the cupcakes book :)
I already have the cookies book and I have been dying to get the cupcake one!
While I love eating cupcakes, I enjoy making cookies more. So I would go with the Cookie book.
This is a very difficult choice you’ve given your reader :-)
I’m going to go with the cookie book I think. I love cupcakes and frosting but think that cookies provide more chances for my kids to help out.
Thanks for the offer!
Ohhh……..I can’t choose!!! I’d be happy to take either…..but if you’re going to make me choose, I think I’ll choose cupcakes. :)
Either book would be awesome but if i had to only choose one……i would choose the cupcake one. cupcakes are just soo cute =).
I’d love the cupcake one! You are such an inspiration for young cooks like me. Its always been my dream to open a bakery. You make it seem possible. Thanks for sharing all your AMAZING ideas and recipies.
(contact me by email)
thanks Bakerella!
My muffin tins need a workout. Cupcake book it is. Love your site.
Cookies please :) you take awesome pictures!
COOKIES!
Cupcakes of course! They’re my current guiltiest pleasure! :)
I’d love either, but if we HAVE to choose, then the cookie one!
I would love the Cupcake book. Love the pictures and the super cute cupcake stand!
Cookies, definitely.
I’d love the cookie book!! Me and snickerdoodles go way back! I think they were the first cookie I ever baked!! Love them!!
definitely the cookie book. So much easier to transport than cupcakes and I am all about taking my cookies with me!
I would love the Cupcake book.
Cookies, please! I’m pregnant and in a cookie mood!
ummmmmm…..that is so not a fair question! But if I had to pick, I guess the cookie one since I already have the cupcake. I love to look at the pics… thanks, now I am hungry!
Hi! Long time lurker first time poster here. I have to check your site regularly to see what cute ideas you have. I have to admit…I’ve used quite a few of your ideas and everyone at work loves them!!!!! I’d love to win the cookie book but would love either!!!
Cookies. For sure. They’re so much easier for me to make than cupcakes. And one of the pictures you took of the cookies sold me … although, so does most of what you bake.
the cupcake book please!!
Obsessed with cupcakes/cookie combos!
I would like the Cupcake Book! <3
I would love, love, love the Cookie Cookbook. One day I made 15 different kinds of cookies. They are my family’s favorite, took some to the office, gave some to neighbors and had a blast sharing the wealth. I definitely could use some new recipes and a Martha cookbook, what could be better?
Oh the choosing is so hard! I think I’ll go with cupcakes,
Cookie book, please!!! Now that I have a child in kindergarten, we need lots of cookie recipes for after-school snacks. :-)
The cupcake book! I LOVE to make cupcakes!
Cookies, definitely cookies! I don’t do cupcakes well, though people like you make them adorable!
I would love either book! Snickerdoodles are one of my families favorite cookies, can’t wait to try the cupcakes too!
I think the cupcake book would be fun!
Cute!! Can I not choose both?! Maybe the cookie book? I guess I wouldn’t complain if I got the cupcake one thought
Can I have both??? Hehe just kidding. Is hard to choose one ….. cupcakes.
Oh I’d love the cupcake book! That duo looks mighty tasty. :)
cupcakes of course! they look scrumptious . . . wanna eat one through the monitor screen!
I would love to have Martha Stewart’s Cookie book!
I have NO idea. Umm… cookies? Cupcakes? Really, if you want to give me one then I’m open to that.
Cookies!!!
Very cute idea, putting the cookies and cupcakes together and, as always, great pictures…drool-worthy.
Really, really, really want the cupcake book.
Regards,
Michelle
Cookies, cookies, and more cookies
Hmmmm Cookies or Cupcakes….. It’s hard, but I think I would love the cookie one since I’m always in cookie swaps. Thanks for the chance at winning.
~PS~ LOVE your site…..
Cupcakes of course!! They look delish!
I like both, so I would do what you did!
Angela
Ooo I would Love to win the cupcake book !
I’d have to go with the Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes cookbook. Who doesn’t love a good cupcake!
Definitely the cookie book! I make cookies all the time — you can never have too many cookies =)
cupcakes…for sure!
I think that I would want the cupcake book! Hard choice though!!
shae0420@hotmail.com
I would really love the cupcake cookbook. I love making different cupcakes for my daughters class and I’m running out of Ideas….this cookbood would be just what I’m looking for.
i would love to have a new cookie book with the holidays coming up. i’m a HUGE holiday baker.
p.s. Love the cupcake pedestals!
Due to the fact that I am pregnant and can’t seem to get enought cake and/or cupcake I would loooove the cupcake book. Thanks for the chance to win.
Oooo! I want the cupcake book….pleeeeaaase! I am all over cupcakes these days!
Oh I’m definitely a cookie baker so the cookie cookbook would be an awesome addition to my collection!
C is for COOKIE!
Oooooh! Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie!!! They are so yummy :) But, I would have to choose the Cupcake book. I have somewhat of an obsession with cupcakes right now and will be making snickerdoodle cupcakes asap!! :)
I would love to have the cupcake book. Martha’s recipes are always good and I’d love to make some fancy cupcakes for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What a new & clever thing to do with cupcakes! I wonder if a cinnamon frosting would make it too cinnamony?
I would love to have the COOKIE cookbook. I love cupcakes, but since I’m the only one in my house that ever eats sweets, I think cookies seem to keep better, so a cookie cookbook would be better for me :)
Thanks!
sweething1155@aol.com
I would love the Cookies book. My grandmother made tons of cookies in every variety at Christmas each year. She would store them up in the basement from the beginning of December so that there would be trays and trays of cookies at Christmas. I’m finding now that the weeks leading up to Christmas, I am making every kind of cookie – from Chocolate Crinkles to Springerle to traditional Sugar Cookies. I just love cookies. I think even if I didn’t win this book, I’d go buy it – now that I know the joy it contains!
they look soooooo delicious :D
I would love to have the cupcake book :D both because I love cupcakes, and also because I have these damn braces on my teeth so I can only eat very soft things :)
I have the cupcake book and love it, so would really like to get the cookie book to try!!
I would LOVE the cupcake one! :)
I would LOVE to win the cookie book! I’m working on perfecting my sugar cookies before Christmas! PS – LOVE your cute cupcake pedestal – where did you find that?!
Hi Bakerella!
I love your site – you are FULL of great ideas.
I would love to win the cookies cookbook.
Thank you so much for making such a FUN spot for creativity!!!!
Cupcakes – I think I’ve perfected the cookie and am always disappointed with new recipes.
Love your site :) I’m going to have to choose the cupcake book.
Cookies, Definitely cookies. They are so much fun to give as gifts in a big pretty basket with a collection of teas and cocoa. Mmmm…cookies. :)
i just LOVE youre web mrs. bakerella! =)
i have a little business of cookies but i´m trying to incorporate cupcakes [´cos who don´t love CUPCAKES?! jaja]…
so i like to participate for the cupcake book.
one big kiss foy u!*
=)
Ooh! Though I love cookies, you need less hardware to make cupcakes – no cutters or rolling pins. I would definitely opt for the cupcake book! Oh, Martha…
Bakerella, I am a cookie baking fiend! I’m always looking for new inspiration and what better than a book filled with cookie recipes?!
Oh, this is sooooo hard. Why does it have to be so hard? I guess I would choose cupcakes if absolutely forced to make a choice. :)
I would love, love, LOVE the cupcake book… your blob/ website has inspired so much baking in my kitchen!!!! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas!!!!!
Cupcakes- naturally, are cooler. But Cookies are pretty darn tasty too.
I would really love cookie recipe book!
oh — I love cupcakes. I’ve been wanting to purchase that book. I hope I win.
I definitely have to say cookies! Cupcakes are yummy, but you can eat so many more cookies without feeling guilty.
COOKIES!!!
I have the cookie cookbook, and I love it! I haven’t seen the cupcake one yet, so that would be awesome to add to my collection!!!
wow,,, what a decision, so hard to make. I guess ahhhhhh! Cupcakes. I think , maybe cookies no cupcakes, yea cupcakes
:)……….
maybe ! lol
cookies!!!
cookies please!
the cupcake one please!
cookies…no, no, cupcakes….urm, wait, I mean cookies.
Seriously, how does one decide between two “Good Things”…
I look at your site every day, just for a smile :)
I would appreciate the Martha Cupcake book!
Thank you!!! …Crossing my fingers until tomorrow!
Your cookie cupcakes are too cute! I would love either book!
oh, so hard to choose…I love cookies and cupcakes but I’d have to pick the cookie book since my SIL has the cupcake book and this way we can trade/share. :-)
The cupcake stands are too adorable!
You come up with the most creative things!
CUPAKES please! they look so yummy!
The cookie book looks awesome! :)
Thanks for reassuring me that Snickerdoodles are so easy. They’re among my mom’s limited favorites and I keep meaning to make them but haven’t attempted them yet.
Hmmm… cookies or cupcakes? Cupcakes or cookies? Cookies. No. Cupcakes. No…. yes… no…
My 4 year old says cupcakes. Without hesitation. How does she do it?
I would love the cookies book. I’ve never heard of snickerdoodle cupcakes, but I can’t wait to try them. I love snickerdoodle cookies.
I would love the cupcake book! I have been trying new cupcake recipes the past couple months. This would be so much fun!!
oh! Cookies please :) Those are so incredibly stunning, I can’t even believe!
Cookies!! Then I would need to get a really big cookie jar to fill it with all the cookies. Speaking of which do you have cookies jars bakerella? You’ve never showed us your cookie jar.
Must we choose?!? They’re both fantastic! On that note, I made one of her oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies and they were amazing…Cookies!
Cookie Cookbook! Yes!!
I would love the cookie book!! Actually I would love either but I already have a great cupcake book so I will have to go with the cookies…
Those look amazingly delicious!! I would love the cookie cookbook!
cookies please! all the martha recipies i’ve made have been delicious!
I’m a cupcake kind of gal! :)
Umm…..they both look amazing!!! The cookie one!!!
I just wanted to point out how unfair it is of Martha Stewart to separate them and make me choose! Still hoping for cupcakes though…..
CUPCAKES please!! what a great way to combine a love of both, love it!!!
Those look SOOOO good!! I’d love the cookie book!! :)
Oooo….how to decide?!? Either one would be a great prize but I’m going to pick cookies. They are always a crowd pleaser.
Cookies!! Beautiful combination. I would have never thought to do both.
I would love the cupcake book! I love cupcakes!! I can be reached at vontresa@bellsouth.net.
The cookie cookbook, I already have the cupcake one and I love it!
Cookies os course, i have always wanted to make those kind of cookies and decorations, i’m a cookie dreamer always wanting to make ones that taste more than good and make beautiful decorations like the ones in the book. COOKIES of Course !!!!
I always enjoy reading your blog. Would love to win the cupcake book! Thanks
OMG!! These cupcake/cookie are soooo cute. It’s so hard to choose, but I would love to win the cupcake book.
oooooh – cupcakes please!
While I would never turn my nose up at either, I think I would probably make more from the cookie book. Yum! I love cookies!
Such a hard choice! Cookies.
I want the cupcake book…cupcakes are your personal piece of heaven! =)
Really? Really? I have to DECIDE!!! okay…..CUPCAKES….gotta have me some cupcakes!
I would love the cookie one!! I’ve made your Cowgirl Cookies over and over since you posted the recipe…and I’d love to see what’s in this book!
I would <3 the cookie book, and would make very good use of it!
Yum!!! Those cupcakes are a great idea with the cookie on top.
Love it!!!
I would love the cookie book, thanks,
Lori V.
this is one contest i actually want to win – oh so badly :) *crosses my fingers* I am just now getting more into making cupcakes… so the cupcake book would be terrific!
I’m a cookie baker !! Would love that MS Cookie book!
I’d choose the cupcake book!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the cookie cookbook!!
Hard to choose! The cookie book. No, the cupcake book. No, the cookie book. Final answer.
Cookies! Pretty please! And believe it or not, I posted my Martha Stewart snickerdoodle cookie experience on my blog JUST yesterday!
Pick me! Pick me! I really need the COOKIE book!!
wow, you get a lot of comments when you’re offering a book!
i made the burger cupcakes a few weekends ago and they were a big hit — can’t thank you enough for the recipe/post.
that being said, i’m obsessed with cupcakes! i would love the cupcake book to make some new varieties. :)
I love these cupcakes! I’m going to try this. Thanks for tweaking the recipe to make smaller servings.
I’d love the cupcake book.
I’d love to have the cookie book! Snickerdoodles are one of my son’s favorite cookies!
Now I should go eat….
I really really want the CUPCAKES book!!!
It’s a difficult decision, but I would love the cookie cookbook!
Cookies for sure! But only because I already have a cupcake book :0) I love Martha’s recipes. BTW, your cookie cupcakes look to die for!! I’ve always admired your food photos – they are so lovely.
Really do enjoy your site…I need to take a class in decorating and making things look really nice. Something like Deco 101.
With that said would love to win the cupcake book – I think that would help move me further along in the direction I’m headed. Small steps are important you know!!
Have a great day!!!
They look wonderful – I have to try making them! Very difficult to decide between cookies and cupcakes, but I guess I’ll go with…cookies!