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.
so not an easy choice….but cupcakes won the rock paper scissors vote. Thanks for all your brilliant ideas!
Those cupcakes look SCRUMPTIOUS!!! I already own the cupcake book and it’s fantastic! I can only imagine what the cookie book is like!!
soo cute! the cookie book most definitely!
Oooooooo . . . the COOKIE book, PLEASE!!!
I’ve NEVER MET a cookie that I didn’t like. Or a cheesecake, for that matter. Or a coffee cake. Or a . . . . . ; )
Cookies! And oh my do they look delicious!
I have been craving a good snickerdoodle lately. Thanks for posting this! I would love to have the cookie cookbook!
I love cupcakes, there are so many cute ideas that I can make for the grandkids. They live in 3 different states and when I visit I kike ti make a memory. Thank you for sharing your talent and God Bless, Carol G. (also know as G.G. for grandma G.)
I would heart the cupcake book!! My daughter loves to bake and so wants to try lots of cupcakes!! Thanks!
I think I would like the cupcake book. I think they are much more fun to make than cookies!
I have been eyeing the cookie book for awhile. I have the cupcakes book and it is so much fun! Love the little pedestals, too!
Oh, goodness, I love the look of these cookie cupcake stackers! I think I’d want the cookie book – basically all the work is done before putting them in the oven. You don’t have to worry about doing anything wih them once they’re baked except devouring them!
I was introduced to your site a few days ago and have been obsessing over it ever since. I made some Turkey cake pops for Canadian Thanksgiving and everyone LOVED them!!!
I would love to win the Cupcake book….my nickname at work is actually Cupcake!! :)
I always check your site to see your newest baking ideas and every time you have the cute yummy pictures. I would love the cookie book! it would be a nice =)
COOKIES!! :)
Those look great! I’d prefer the cupcake book–thanks for the chance!
cookies, cookies!
I would love the cookie book…and so would my husband!
Cookies. Tough choice, but I think it’s the better one.
Cupcakes!!! I’ve wanted that book since it came out!
Ohh…hard choice. Cookies!
Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie!
The cupcake book definitely. Thanks for the chance.
nikkib74@comcast.net
Cupcake book…
Cupcakes! Cupcakes! Cupcakes!
Definitely the cookie book!
Either really, but if I had to choose…cupcakes!
Wow! Tough choice. I think I will have to go with cookies. Thanks for the chance to win.
Well….since I am forced to choose I would have to go with cookies :-) mmmmmmmmmm … keeping my fingers crossed! By the way, the snickerdoodles do look great!
If I HAD to choose, I’d pick the cookie one! Thanks for the chance!
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I wolud really like that cupcake book!!!
Hi Bakerella! I’m a new fan :) Your site is way too much fun…I think you live in my fantasy baking world!
I’m a cupcakeaholic, so I would looooove the cupcake book!
Oooo, i’d just love the cupcake one! There are few things I love more than a cavalcade of cupcakes!
..::COOKIE::..
That’s a tough one. I think I’d love to have the cupcake book. Thanks again for another fabulous drawing! :)
Yummmmm coooookies!
I have been dying for the cupcake book!
Cookies!! We have cupcakes:)
I really would love the cupcake book.
Cookies or cupcakes?? Um, um, um, cookies! No, cupcakes! Wait, no cookies. No, cupcakes. Yes, cupcakes for sure. I think….
oh!! oh!! pick me! pick me! I would so LOVE that cookie book!! yummmmm
ps I LOVE your blog…I check it out every single day! Your the best
Tami
tamjam@gmail.com
I love cupcakes! But I’m not quite creative enough to think of all those fabulous ideas on my own~so I’d LOVE to have the cupcake one!
I would love the cupcake book!
I love all the ideas you share. I can’t wait to try your mini pumpkin pies! I would love the cookie book!
oooh, definitely the cookie one. :)
Cookie book for me! I have been spending every extra moment this last week daydreaming about making Halloween cookies.
Thank you Bakerella! Cupcakes, definitely!
Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies…and these are just adorable :) If I were to win, once I got up from falling on the floor, I’d ask for the cookie book, please :)
Cupcakes!!!! :) My friend calls me Martha F. Stewart for being crafty but that book can take me to a new level! lol :)
I would love the cupcake book. But either one is amazing :)
I would love to win Martha’s cupcake book..
I’d love the cupcakes book!
My choice would be cookies….love cookies and the pictures just look mouth watering….enjoy reading your posts…such wonderful photographs
Most likely I would choose the cookie book! Cookies are smaller and therefore there are less calories in a cookie right, so you can eat a couple at a time–right!!!?!!!
Cookies!!!!! no… Cupcakes!!!!! no… Cookies!!!!! no… Cupcakes!!!!! no, definitely COOKIES!!! no…. definitely CUPCAKES!!!!………. Crap! (I can’t decide)
looks amazing, would love to win!!
CUPCAKES!! I absolutely love new creative ways to make cupcakes!!
Cookies please! :o)
Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes. I’m doing cupcakes for a friend’s wedding next spring and could use some inspiration as well as practice recipes!!
I love the cookie-cupcake combo! Snickerdoodles are one of my favorites and I would love the cookie cookbook!
In the words of my favorite Sesame Street character…
CoOOooKieS!!
MS’s Cupcakes!!! (please and thank you!)
I would love love LOVE to have the cookie book.
The cupcake book! I actually own the cookie book. It’s great!
Ooooh tough call. Go with cookies!
Hmmmm, love the look of cupcakes, love the taste of cookies. Cute or yummy… COOKIE book!
Cookies Cookies Cookies!
Oh, I’d have so much fun with the cookie recipe book!
I would love either one, but I guess I’d like the cookie book a little more. Let me know when I win!
cupcakes please!
I’d love to try the cookie book!
CUPCAKE book! I have the cookie book and just need the matching set! : )
Cookies, please!
I would choose Martha Stewart’s Cupcake Book…I already have the Cookie Book!
I would love the cookie book!
COOKIES and Milk PLEASE! I love your website! I have two boys and we love trying out new cookie recipes!
Cookies!
holyCUPCAKE…can you guess which one I want?! Didn’t know about the book until now – and now I have a chance to WIN ONE :0 Dear Lord, bless Bakerella and let me be the winner please. AMEN!
The Cupcake book, for sure!
I would def. want the cupcake book!
I’d love the cookie book! I host a Christmas cookie baking party every year for friends and family, and I’m always on the lookout for new cookie recipes. Awesome giveaway!
Well, both are on my Christmas list, but if I had to choose, I’d pick the cupcake one. I don’t think I love any baked goods more than cupcakes!
So sweet! (The cupcakes and the giveaway!)
I would love the cupcake book. Wait, the cookie one. No, the cupcake cookbook. Yes, the cupcake cookbook. :)
CUPCAKES! I have an old Cooky Book, but I don’t have a cupcake one!
Both sound very tempting, but I’d have to choose the cookie one! YUMMM!!!!
way to one up martha stewart! cookie book!
I would love either but would probably use the cookie cookbook more!
omg yum these look delicious! Your cookies always look so perfect. Mine always come out in odd shapes lol.
Id def love the cupcake cookbook. Cupcakes are so precious and if the cake is good enough it could also be used to bake into a big cake ^__^ two-in one i’d say :P
oh_my_sw00sh@hotmail.com
The Martha Stewart Cookies Cookbook looks great!
This was a really hard decision….CUPCAKES!!!!!
“Beggers can’t be chosers” BUT since you are giving me a pass…. I would LOVE the cupcake book pretty pleeeease!!!
Martha Stewart COOKIES please!!
Oh, just pick one?! I love cookies and cupcakes, and putting them together…with snickerdoodles..yummo. I think I would have to go for the cookie book though! Hope I win!!!!!
The cookie book would rock!
I made a brown sugar buttercream from a recipe on Martha Stewart’s website yesterday. Added a little cinnamon, delicious. Maybe that would go well on these gorgeous cupcakes?
I’m with you…if the recipe doesn’t have chocolate in it then it goes to the bottom of the list!
and oh….love ya blog by the way! u r such an inspiration…
p/s : still want the cookies book..ahaks
Oooh, this is a tough choice. I guess I’ll go with the cookie book.
cookies…cookies…cookies….
i’ve only realised a few weeks before that i have tons of cupcake books…haha…its cookies time for a change!!
I’d prefer the cupcake book. I’ve made several of the cupcakes on this site and they are always a hit. Last Thursday I made two of the 14 layer cakes……..all day affair……they were hits with both birthday people. I bake cupcakes every week and give them away to friends who really enjoy them. BTW I just retired and a friend calls me Betty Crockers brother!
oh my gosh, how hard is this choice! I love baking both! eenie, meenie, minie, mo…. COOKIES!
i would enjoy the cookie book! LOVE to see all that you do with cupcakes. CRAVE wedding cake daily! Just made your pumpkin pecan chocolate chunk cookies…baked 2 dozen, made a roll and froze the remaining dough…now i have cut-and-bake 2 dozen in the freezer!! ;) your decorative & photography skills are amazing!
Cookies!!! Thanks Bakerella!!! Ü
I would enjoy either book…but I’ll say the Cookie book!
Hmmm…cookies…cupcakes…
I’d love the cookie cookbook!
Love all your ideas and the way you illustrate your goodies. As for the Martha book?????think I would choose the cupcakes!
I really love cookies! Too fun
Hard choice but I would choose the cookie cookbook.
Cupcakes please!!!! :) I’ve been eying that book for quite a while now. P.S. everything I have made of yours has been absolutely divine. I get in trouble with my husband any time I al trolling your site!
Wow, that’s a tough choice! I think I’d take the cupcake book though. Fingers are crossed!!!!!
I would love to have either on of these cookbooks, but my first pick would be the cupcake cookbook.
The cookie book for sure but that’s only because I just got the cupcake book and it ROCKS!! I bake cookies with my small tots and I know they’d love it too!!
Without a doubt…cupcakes!!
I would LOVE the COOKIE cookbook!! Those cookies/cupcakes look so cute. Thanks for posting so often :)
I vote cupcakes….I often have a craving for cupcakes. I had a craving so bad for cupcakes when I woke up from a nap yesterday that I drove straight to the store and bought a pack from the bakery. I came home and let the chocolate cake and yummy buttercream melt in my mouth with a glass of milk….. and all was right with the world….ahhh cupcakes- I love you!
I want the cupcake book!!! Pick me! Pick me! :)
Love cupcakes, but I will take a cookie any time of the day!!!
I need a cookie book sooo bad!!
Those are A-DOR-A-BLE!!! Yuummm snickerdoodles! My mom and I used to make them all the time when I was a kid, and they are my husband’s favorite cookies! Will definitely be trying out this recipe!!
As for the contest, hmmm what to choose, what to choose……the Cookie Book!!!
I just LOVE this site!!
KariAnn
These turned out so cute! I love the pedestals! I would either cookbook (I’m not picky). If I had to choose, I think I would take the cookie book because I am a teacher and I love to bring goodies in for my staff, and cookies travel easily! Thanks!!
I would probably use the cookie recipe more – I usually use boxed cake mixes for cupcakes.
CUPCAKES!
I would love the cookie cookbook!
cookies!!!
I have been making snickerdoodles for Christmas. I can’t wait to try this new recipe. Thanks so much for sharing.
I would like the cupcake book, please.
I would really love to win that cookie book!
Cookies, please!
Oh, gosh, choose, it’s like you recipe so hard to decide……uh, I flipped a coin – cupcake are the winner. Thanks for the snickerdoodle recipe. One of my favorite non-chocolate cookies
I would love the cupcake book! Nothing is cuter than a cupcake :)
ugh why dont you just ask me to pick between my sisters. who can pick?! ok, well i haver more cookie recipes by far so ill say cupcakes. oh, and these snickerdoodle cupcakes look so cute!!!!!
I would love the cookie book!!!
amberbillingsley@yahoo.com
I would LOVE the cupcake book! There’s just something so cute about cupcakes!
Cookies! Yummy, yummy!! I can never resist cookies!
I would love the cookie book – they’re so much fun to make and eat!
I would love to have the cupcake book! I don’t have a cupcake book yet.
Cookies, cookies, cookies!!
Already have the cupcake book and LOVE IT! I really want the cookie book too!
The sweet little book full of all those cuppy cakes!! :) love em.
Cookies please! I already have so many about cake/cupcakes and my hubby likes cookies better!
I love cupcakes but I’d love to get my hands on the cookie book!
I really would love the cupcake book!
Laurensmitty1982@msn.com
Oh these are so droolworthy! I would absolutely love to get my hands on both those books, but if I have to choose just one… I think I’d have to go for the cookie book. For some reason I have more trouble with my cookies than my cupcakes, I don’t know why. If only there were more Martha Stewart-ness down under!
Thank you and fingers crossed. :)
Sincerely, I would be very appreciative of either one. You can email me at charleen@tds.net
Cupcakes!!!
I would love to win the cupcake one!! Thanks!
I would love to win the cupcake book and I’m going to make those snickerdoodle cupcakes tonight, Yum!
Snickerdoodle Cupcake cookies?! How brilliant are you?
And as for my choice… cookies. No! cupcakes… yeah cupcakes… wait no… cookies… definitely cookies..
“…which book you would rather have. You get to choose. Easy.” What part of that is easy?! They both look so good. Cookies… Final choice… mmm…. cookies…
My instinct is to with the cupcakes, but I think I’m going to have to go with the cookie one.
Ooooh, I haven’t made Snickerdoodles in ages! I know what I’m doing tomorrow! And using the to top off a cupcake, even better!
Hmmm, cookie or cupcake cookbook. Tough choice but if I have to choose, I’ll take cupcakes!! yum, yum!!
“C” is for cookie. That’s good enough for me! Oh, cookie cookie cookie starts with “C!”
I love cupcakes but think I would want cookies!
as much as i love cookies, i’m pretty terrible at making them. i’d love the cupcake book though.
p.s. those cupcakes look like heaven in a baking cup.
I would love to have the cupcake book! I have no cupcake skills. At all.
I would love to win the cookie book =)
Cookies please!!
The cookie book looks fantastic! I have to go make some cookies now *drools*
cupcakes! cupcakes! cupcakes please!! I could bake cupcakes all day long
Cupcakes!
well.. coming from a country were cupcakes or cookies are not easy to find it’s hard to decide…. but I would love to have the cookie book !
After seeing that lineup of cookies, it’s definitely the cookie book!
You are a true inspiration to us all! I would be
so thankful for either one…surprise me!
Oooh!!! These are gorgeous. My daddy loves snickerdoodles – I might have to surprise him with some! Thanks for posting the recipe. :)
<3 Aww man, I have to enter this. I'd love the cookies one!
Would love either one, but I think cupcakes would be fun for the ideas. Love the snickerdoodles cupcakes/cookies. so cute.
OMG.. i am soo craving some snickerdoodles right now.. but its way to late to make cookies… i have to wait till tomorrow.
Thanks for the chance to win the books. I would love to make some of the cookies out of her book!
I could never ever say no to a cupcake!! YUM!!
The cupcake book! Those cookies and cupcakes look so yummy!
OOO!!! I want the cupcake one!! Prettttty!
cupcakes rocks!
I’d love to have this book
=)
I’m a follower of Bakerella and check it everyday! I love to see what goodies are made and how successful/ funny the experience was.
if i am the lucky winner i would love the cupcake book!
Go Team Cupcake!
:)
I would love to have the cookie cookbook!!
The cookie book please!
WOW! Howdo you decide?! I’m kinda thinking I love the cookie topped cupcake myself!!! Personally, I’d take either, but if I had to choose…. I’m thinking cupcake. Thanks for your blog and your inspiration!!
I’m a cookie girl….but only when they’re warm right out of the oven. But cookies are great to send to the boys at school!
Martha Stewart Cupcakes! I ogle that book everytime I go to borders!
I love cookies so I would have to say the cookie book!
I would love the cupcake book! How cute.
Hmm…it’s a difficult decision, but I must choose CUPCAKES!!! Good luck to ME! :) :) :)
I’d love the cookie cookbook!
I would absolutely love to get my hands on that cupcake book!
This is my first time posting. What a wonderful site you have. I love cupcakes and have 2 little ones who love them too. Sign me up for the cupcake book.
some blogs i read for my own self, some i read mostly for the little girls who will run up and look over my shoulder – if i win, i’d ask for the cupcake one – i make cookies, but hardly ever cupcakes, and little girls *need* cupcakes…. don’t they?
Nothing beats a good cupcake! I would love to have some more cupcake ideas from Martha though I get most of my inspiration from you! Recently I made hello kitty cupcake pops for my daughter’s 3rd birthday party at daycare and also made the graduation caps for my sister’s graduation party. Both were a big hit! Thanks for sharing all your talent and inspiring me to bake more!
I hope to eventually have both books but I am most excited about the cookie cookbook!
I would want the cookie one…Those are adorable!!!!
Cookies please! Your stuff is fabulous! :-)
Oh, man! That’s a tough decision. But I would probably have to go with…geez! I can’t decide!
Cupcakes. Yeah…! They don’t require rolling out! :)
I check your website daily to see what yummy creations you will be showcasing. My co-workers thank you too!
I have the cupcake one…and knowing Martha…the cookie one is going to be just as good!!
I would love the cupcake book!! Winter means baking in our house, this would be perfect!
Cookies or cupcakes? What a question! My answer has to be cupcakes! Something kids and adults alike can enjoy. The snickerdoodle cupcakes look delicious.
Cookies!
Ooh, I covet both, but since the holidays are coming and my mom and I are crazy cookie bakers, I’d love the Cookie Bookie. (And those snickerdoodle castles look delicious!)
kburrowsquinn [at] me [dot] com
Cookies! Cookies! Cookies! I have an unusual fondness for cookies.
Thanks,
Sherry
I have martha’s cupcake book, and wanted to try these!
i’ll have to check out the cookie book!
i love martha.
I want one! I want one! I love Martha Stewart and all of her clever ideas. I think I would take the cupcakes book since I already have a cookie book (albeit not by Mah-tha).
Thanks, Bakerella!
So difficult to decide. . . okay, cookies for me.
I would love the cupcakes! They’re adorable.
Cookies!
Oh, that cookie book looks divine!!! SIgn me up, please!!!
ruby0042@hotmail.com
hmmm…I think cupcakes!
It actually took me a really long time to choose which book I would want!
I decided if I won, I would want the cupcake book. I’m not going to lie I erased that and replaced it with cookie about three times ahah. Yay for cupcakes!