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.
Cupcakes…. although it really is a hard choice.
OMG – snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies ever!! They are so yummy. I love this website and have made so many of your treats!!
I would love the cookie book! Baking cookies is one of my favorite things to do :)
I would more likely cook the cupcakes so maybe that one. B ut then again the cookies look good. Hmmmmm. Either one would be great.
OMG!! How yummy! Sign me up. I have a baking contest at work soon and could totally use this book.
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I have the cookie book, so the cupcake book would be fantastic! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love the cupcake book.
I would adore the cupcake one!!
I would love to win the Cupcake book! That super cupcake/cookie dessert looks dee-lish! =)
My 4 kids would love you forever if I won the cookie book!
My son and I enjoy looking through your website, it’s great! He likes cupcakes so we will go with that book if we are lucky enough to win! thank you!
Because of you, I want to make more and more so I’d take either book! Thanks for making me get moving in the kitchen!!
cookies :)
Ooooooh. It’s gotta be the cupcake one. :)
I’m a cookies girl!
I would LOVE to have the cupcake book! :)
Oh, and I just love the cupcake stands…precious!
I love both, but I gotta stay true to the cookie lover in me! Thanks!
Martha Stewart’s Cookies!!!!!!!!
Cookies! I love em!
Oh, cookies all the way. Taking two cookies is simply good planning, while two cupcakes can get a bit much.
Martha Stewart Cookies!
cookie cookbook….i’m drooling over the pics already! :)
Wow, tough choice! I think I would choose
the cupcake book.
My roller derby name is The Tell-Tale Tart because of my love of baked goodies and Edgar Allan Poe. I would love the Cupcake book to bake some delish treats for my derby girls! :)
COOKIES! Need to expand in my baking!
I would want the cookie cookbook. I just got the cupcake cookbook “Hello Cupcake” and haven’t had a chance to try any of those recipes yet!
That IS a tough call, but I’d have to say the cookie cookbook. Cupcakes are so delicious, so pillowy soft & celebratory, but a cookie…well, there’s something you can really sink your teeth into. And it can come out of the oven warm and gooey, definitely satisfies cravings for the whole family. Love your blog – it’s so pretty and the pictures make me want to jump into my computer monitor.
I’m thinking cookies.
cupcakes, definitely! wow, what i would give to get that book!
Definitely the cookie cookbook!
Cupcakes! Oh yeah……….
Both? Greedy, eh? I think you’d just have to pick for me because I’m not sure I could choose.
Hard choice! I’d have to go with the cookies book. I have way too many cupcake ones!
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I would love the cupcake book! But they both look so appetizing!
COOKIES!!! but really I’d take either.
I would say the cooke book; I’m a sucker for a good cookie.
It’s a hard choice, but I’d go with the cookie book.
I love your cupcakes! I can’t wait to decorate some for Halloween using your designs.
Cookies! Definitely cookies! I make more cookies than anything else.
COOKIES!
Ooh snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies and I am a chocolate freak so that says something about those cookies. I would love the cookie book. And your creation on the cupcakes and cookies are genius and that picture makes me want to make some now.
I would love to have the COOKIE book b/c I already have Martha’s Cupcake book….she sure does have some great ideas…and I love your snicekrdoodle cupcake cookies…so cute!
Snickerdoodle. Cupcakes. WOW. I need to make these RIGHT NOW.
I would love to have Martha’s cupcake book. Heck I’d love either of them, but I adore cupcake variations. YUM.
I could go either way, but my heart is telling me cookies.
Oh my gosh, I’d adore the cupcake book!
In Australia we dont get a lot of Martha Stewart stuff, and really, who does cookbooks better than Martha!
You’re fabulous, BTW ;)
I don’t have any cupcake books. But one can never have too many cookie books. I’d be thrilled with either one!
I would love to have cupcake book!
Wow – it’s tough to choose but I think I’d go for the cookie book. I like to share my creations and cookies tend to be a bit more transportable en masse!
I have the cookie book already and every time I have made something from it people rave about them! I would love to have the cupcake book if I win to see if I can get the same results. Martha has never let me down so far!
Cupcake book, for sure! I was just flipping through it at Barnes and Noble, but couldn’t buy it that day!
I would LOVE the Martha cupcake book. Oh so delicious!
I love love love cookies…so I would have to say the cookie book. :)
I would love that cupcake book! It would have a nice home, that’s for sure!
Cookies! Please and thank you. You have such a creative blog here – you’ve even inspired me to start my own! I’m still a newbie but it’s a lot of fun so far!
I would love the cookie book! Between my husband and the guys I work with, I am running out of cookie ideas to keep them happy and quiet.
Cookies! Btw, love the new site!
I want the cupcake book! If this recipe came from it, then I can’t wait to see the other recipes! These are so cute!
i love your baking! its so creative!! and it looks so yummy!!
i like the cookie one!!!<333!
That cookie cookbook is amazing! I would love to get my hand on one of those.. :D**
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I would love to get my hands on the cookie book!
Cookies! Please and thank you. Your website is great – you’ve even inspired me to start my own. I’m still a newbie but having fun at it! http://thesweettouch.blogspot.com/
Mmmm…The cookie book would be awesome esp. with the Holidays coming. I love to bake for gifts.
Oh my, I never thought that choice would be soooo difficult! Those pictures from the books make it even harder. But, that cookie on the bottom right (the batch of chocolate yummy-ness) sealed the deal. I would love to have a copy of the cookie book.
It was too hard to decide, so I asked my child “Cookies or Cupcakes?” The response – “Cupcakes” (with a look that screamed “DUH!”). So, cupcakes it is. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Wow, that’s a hard choice. Cupcakes I guess?
I would have to say CUPCAKES!!!! The cupcake craze is all over new york and I love making them myself. Would like to try out what Martha has to offer. :o)
Tough choice! I may have to go with the cookies, since I make those more than cupcakes around here. Thanks for the giveaway and those cupcookies look amazing.
I would love the cookie book!!! I am always in search of a good cookie. With 4 little boys to try to please, I am making cookies often.
I *almost* ordered the cookie cookbook recently, but didn’t. How awesome would it be to win it from you! Thanks for scaling down the snickerdoodle cupcake recipe.
I think I’d have to go with the cupcake book!
Oh man. Cookies or cupcakes? That is a tough choice. I’d want the cookie book since Christmas is coming and I’m making cookies for everybody. Martha always has the best recipes!
If I HAVE to choose, I would have to go with the Cookie Cookbook just because the cookies on the bottom, right corner are going to haunt me until I can make them!
*cleaning drool off of my laptop*
Thanks for the giveaways, they’re always fun!
I would love to win the cookie book! The family loves to try out new cookies and with the holidays coming maybe I could add some new creations to the usual lineup.
I would love, love, love the cookie book!
hmmm cookie
That is a tough choice! They both look like great cookbooks, but I think I would have to pick the cupcake one. I am pretty comfortable with cookies, but need to branch out. And those cupcakes look like a good place to start!
My mom has the cookie book, so if I won the cupcake book that would round out our holiday spread pretty nicely. Thanks for all the giveaways you do…love it!
Cookies!
I love your website and your creativity AMAZES me…I want to be like you when I grow up! Both of those books look great…but I have to say cupcake book because I already own so many cookie books! Now…off to go order the single cupcake stands! Thank you!
Absolutely cookies! Easy to make, easy to eat, easy to share!
Cupcakes for sure!
I would looooove the “Cupcake” book! Not big on cookies but just love the mini side of cake. Thanks for always post such awesome recipes and idea’s.
Love how your site makes everything look yummy and super easy! Would love either book to share with my daughter who loves baking! Thanks for sharing!
Surprise me! I’ll take whichever the other winner doesn’t want! Because, really…cupcakes or cookies? They’re both favorites.
i’d have to go with the cookie one! you can eat a lot more cookies without anyone noticing than with cupcakes.
I want the cookie book. A lot. Please?
Yummy! It’s sooo hard to choose but, I’d like the cupcake book.
Oh my goodness those look fabulous! We are going to have to try these cupcakes. My husband’s favorite cookie is snickerdoodle and I use his mom’s recipe. And now snickerdoodle cupcakes!
Hmm..which book,what a decision, I think the cupcake book. :-)
wow, those look delicious! I love anything with cinnamon, so snickerdoodles are definitly high on my list of favs. I would love to win the cookie book, cuz cupcakes tempt me wayy too much when I bake them, and I end up eating 2 or 3 before even frosting them…cookies are moderately better :P
I would really LOVE the cupcake cookbook! : )
It is a hard choice but I think I would have to go Cupcakes. I am a cupcake lover through and through.
Both books look amazing! However, the cookie book totally stole my heart. I’d love to win that one! But really, they’re both winners in my heart.
Mmmmm…cupcakes!!!!
oh my. your snickerdoodle cupcakes with cookies look absolutely delicious. both books would be amazing! but i think i would have to go with the cupcakes book! (:
Cookie book, please!
I would LOVE the cupcake book. I am just starting to become a cupcake fanatic so it would be wonderful for me!! Thanks so much!! Love the photo of the Snickerdoodle Cupcakes.
COOKIES!
my mom bought me the cupcakes book last year and it is fantastic! The cookie book will be the perfect addition to my collection!
Thanks Bakerella
The cupcake book because I already have her cookie book. Martha’s cookbooks are great!
I think you need to do a cookbook also.
The cupcakes look awesome! Snickerdoodles are one of my favorites. I made them for a party a few weeks ago, but this time, I also added in some cardamom and all spice. They were fantastic.
I’d love the cookie book! You can never have too many awesome cookie recipes.
I want the cookie cookbook!
Cupcake book, please!
CUPCAKES! I’m so excited how cupcakes are making a come back!
I would LOVE the cookie book! I love cupcakes, too, but cookies are just fun to make!
Ohhh, tough choice, but it would boil down to the cupcake book!
that’s a tough one! they both look like great books! i think i’m going to have to choose cookies though.
Oh wow – that’s a tough choice, but I think cookies win by a slight margin.
Both look fabulous, though!
mmmm….. cookies definitely. A new cookbook would be awesome to try out on my birthday this Saturday!!
Oh my! Such a hard choice, I would love either. But, I have been on a huge cupcake kick here lately so I would choose the cupcake book…….wait, no, the cookie book, I need a change of pace……………or maybe I should just stick with cupcakes, why change a good thing? But, Christmas is coming up and I always make cookies and such at Christmas timr…the cookie book would give me new ideas. So, I think I’ll choose the cookie book. Yeah, that’s my final answer (I’m very indecisive by the way) :-)
Cupcake book. I love all the toppers!!
I would like to have the cupcakes book because I am from Portugal and here we dont see those beautiful cakes often. That’s why I really really want to learn how to do it! Pick me pick me, pleeeeease!!!
I would LOVE the Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes book! Thanks Bakerella!
I love that you halved and re-worked both recipes. Do you have any tips on halving recipes? I cook for two and I constantly find myself not making a recipe because we don’t need the excess! If we had 4 dozen cookies laying around, we would surely eat all 4 dozen! First I check the number of eggs in a recipe, and if it’s an odd number, I can’t halve the recipe and I have to move on to a different recipe. Sad stuff. Just wanted to see if you had any tips :)
Oh, and on the slim chance that I would win either book, I’d let you decide which book–they’re both fabulous!
I’d have to go with the Cookie book….we sure go through cookies quick around here!
I would love the cookie book!
Totally would have to pick the cupcake book! If I don’t win, I’ll have to order it online, I love cupcakes!
Hi Bakeralla..it will be really honoured if I can get the cupcakes book.at least I can bake one for my fren’s baby shower :)
Cookies, hands down, though I really enjoyed your combination (I’m big on themes). And aren’t you a sweetie for sharing? Thank you!!!
I’d pick your recipes over Martha’s any day. Yours are made with love. Martha has the bottom line in sight all the time.
I would love to have the cupcake book. I’m just getting into baking and made your mini chocolate chip pancake muffins, they were a hit! I plan on making the mini pumpkin pies next…
I’d love either, but if I was forced to choose, I would pick the cookie book as I already have a couple Cupcake books that I love to look at.
I would lurve the cookie book almost as much as I luurve your website! Thanks for being to generous… especially with your talents! Hope you have a great week!
Oy, what a choice! Probably cupcakes for me!
::frantically looks back and forth between the too options::
omg, omg….cookies! cookies!
Cookies. Cupcakes are grand but I want something I can stash in my bag for emergency sugar cravings and cookies do that so beautifully!
I would love either one, honestly! If I win one I’m going to buy the other because they both look amazing!!!
SO SO cute! I want the cookie book!
Cupcakes…baby….cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for offering the giveways.
Ooh. I love both, but I think I like cookies best!
Tough choice…. but I think I’d have to go with the cookie book!
Both books look really fun, but I think I’d like the cookie book the best!
Hmm…I think I would like the cookie book! :)
YUM! Let’s make cookies!
i would lovee the cookie book!! :)
Cupcakes, please!
I would looove the cupcake book!!!
I would love the cupcake cookbook! I think cupcakes are just the most perfect things – easy to eat, just the right portion size and so cute!!
the cupcake one please! i have the cookie one and it needs a friend!
I’m always looking for new CUPCAKE fun!!
COOKIES for eating, CUPCAKES for celebrating! I would rather have the Cookie book though!
These look super cute! It’s like the cupcakes have little hats. I’ll probably make the cookies first though, they look delicious! The pictures in the cookies book look awesome too!
Cupcakes! <3
I would love the cookie cookbook!!
I would LOVE the cupcake book! I live for cupcakes…I think they are the best food invention on the planet…hands down.
crazy about cupcakes!!!
Very hard choice,
I pick the cookie book! So lovely.
Both books look amazing. I {heart} Martha. I’ll choose the cupcake book. Thanks for a chance to win!
I would love the cookie book! Yum :)
i have the cookie cookbook and LOVE it! the pictures are fabulous and oh so enticing! so my choice would be to win…the amazing cupcake cookbook!
I’d love the cupcake book, though I love cookies almost as much!
I’m on the hunt for a good cookie book, so the cookie one for me please!
That could fall into the “too tough to decide” catagory. Since I bake both pretty regularly……if I have to pick I will say the cupcake one. :)
Cookies for sure!
Oh man! Picking just one?? I like your idea of mixing both books. But, I think I’d go with cupcakes for starters. But, I wouldn’t be opposed to the cookie book either! :)
Cupcake book please! I have a couple cookie books, but no cupcake ones. :)
Seems silly to try, with over 2000 comments already, but I’ll try anyway! I’m getting married at the end of December and am serving cupcakes at the reception. Hooray for cupcakes!!
I own the Cupcake book and would love the Cookie book! And I have made those same cupcakes and snickerdoodles, and totally agree with you about the icing! It was too fluffy and made the cupcakes taste more like muffins to me. But I love me a good snickerdoodle!
Oooh I love it when you have giveaways! I would like the cupcakes book if I win! but both look amazing!
I looked through the cupcake book this summer and loved it! That is the one I would choose!
I don’t have a cupcake book yet. I would love to have a book full of new yummy cupcake recipes!
I really want the cupcake book, and have for months. Really really really!
cookies, please!
The cupcake book! I like the challenge of (cup)cakes over cookies. There’s more chemistry and cross-your-fingers-ing involved in cake baking. And who can resist a perfect, diminutive cake?!
cookies, cookies, cookies!
I would love one of these books! I have been begging my husband for hello, cupcake! for a while
I would love to have a new cookie cookbook.
I will have to make these for my husband soon! The cupcakes and cookies look so good.
COOKIE!
Cupcakes all the way!!!!
I would LOVE the cookie bookie!
Also- Your Nutty Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are off the CHAIN! I made two batches in a week because they were SO popular. Love it!
I love cupcakes! As a college student, it’s my own personal form of stress release after a crazy study-filled week!
I have the cupcake book and I love it.. I would love to get the cookie book!
cookies. you can eat more cookies without feeling guilty about it.
oh! i want the cookies! pick me! pick me!
I prefer the cupcakes book because i´m a beginer making cupcakes and loved them too much!
A kiss from Portugal!
team cupcake!!! :)
Cookies. Not because I don’t love cupcakes, but since I live away from family cookies are easier to send. :)
Cookies! I don’t have a reason to make fancy cupcakes all that often, but I’m always looking for new recipes to try for Cookie Day — a family winter holiday tradition involving up to 20 different types of cookies baked in one day. :)
Wow – those look wonderful! I love them. I would also love the cookie book!
im into cupcakes….. :)
Cupcakes!!! Those look amazing!
Cookies! I have the cupcake book and lovvvvvve it!!
The cupcake book – please :)
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WoW! I love your site. I have been telling everyone I know about it. I have be sooo excited about learning new, creative, and fun things to bake. My husband calls for cupcakes, but I know I would enjoy either of the books.
I only stumbled across your site a couple of months ago, and have been in love with your work – especially the cake pops, which I have tried and am now working on my own designs. Keep up the great work! “C” if for Cookie, cookie, cookie!!!
I would love the cookie book! Everything looks so yummy!
I love the look of the cookie/cupcakes! What a great idea! I would love to have the Martha Stewart Cupcake Cookbook! Thanks again for sharing your creative cooking!
Cookies. Definitely.
I’d want the cookie cookbook since I already have the cupcake one and have baked some pretty good stuff from it :)
I love baking cupcakes but I’d have to say cookies for sure. You never can have enough of them! Love the new cupcake stands.
cupcakes… definitely cupcakes
Enter me please, I would love either!
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I would LOVE the cupcake book! I’ve been just waiting to get it!
Cookies for me! I love baking cookies for my kids and their friends and it’d be so much fun to make some of those!!
Oh wow, what a tough decision… But I’ve got to go with the cupcakes!
Really digging the new layout – keep your good ideas coming! ;D
Oooh….that is a tough choice! Cookies…cupcakes…cookies…cupcakes….COOKIES. I am going with the cookie book :).
those cupcake, ok the icing look delicious but I love to cook cookies and Martha’s cookie books are wonderful.
Homemade cookies are my favorite! I would love that cookbook!
i have never tried snickerdoodle cookies or cupcakes. this is such a cute idea though. thanks. and i really love martha
oh my…i think i’d go with the cookies. no the cupcakes. no wait, the cookies.
I just made these Snickerdoodle cupcakes and OH MY GOODNESS…I only made the cupcakes and didnt use the 7-minute frosting but a concoction of my own- more like a buttercream with honey in it and HOLY COW. I am officially addicted on a sinful level!
Oh – these look so good that I am going to have to make them for my coworkers ASAP! I can just see everyone ripping off the cookies and diving in! I am a teacher and never liked Snickerdoodles until a sweet student made me a batch in Life Skills. Have loved them ever since. Things are always better when made with love!
I would die for the cupcake book! I have been on such a cupcake kick lately. I’d forgotten how fun they are to make as well as to eat! The last ones I made were plain jane vanilla with vanilla frosting for a coworker’s birthday at the end of last week. They were so good!!!