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’d love the cookie book so much!!
Mmmmm….. hard choice… Guess it would have to be Cupcake!
Definately the Cupcake book! :]
while i love cupcakes, i could use a good cookie cookbook. esp to fatten everyone up now that holidays are about to trickle in. fatten them up for winter, natch!
I love both equally so it’s pretty hard to choose between cookies and cupcakes but I think I’ll go with the cupcakes, since I love seeing whimsically decorated cupcakes and I’m always looking for new ideas to decorate them.
I would love the cookie one…actually either one…they are both great!! :-)
Ooohhh, I would LOVE the cupcake book! Yummy!
I have been craving cupcakes ever since I started reading your site a couple months ago. Choose me for cupcakes please! Love your site.
Greetings from Finland! I really like your web page, I just wish I could get all the ingredients that you have… I would really like to have either one of the books, both look really nice!
Cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would really love the cookie cookbook. Thanks!
Cupcakes!!
Definitely cupcakes…somehow cupcakes have always soothed my soul…especially with a big scoop of ice cream on the side. And even better if it’s stuffed with a surprise.
i already have cookies… I’d love to have cupcakes! xoxo.
thunguyen11 at gmail dot com
cookies, me love cookies! (I think that might be a direct quote from the Cookie Monster)
I really don’t know which one I would pick, they both look awesome! I would let you pick for me!
Oh my GOODNESS! So cute!
I would love love LOVE the cookie book!
Thanks for all the great giveaways, I love it!
Ashley
Cupcakes!!!
I check this site literally every day to see if there is something new. I just checked now, and I am in total shock that you made Martha’s Snickerdoodle cupcakes, as last weekend I made them myself!!! I had a laughing fit! Anyway, I have the cupcake book, and would love to add the cookie one to my collection!
Oh.. do I HAVE to choose? *sigh. Glances at cookies…cupcakes…cookies…cupcakes…* COOKIES. Cookies wins for versatility :-) What a wonderful resource and I can’t wait to see it!
The cupcake book for sure!
Definitely cookies. How can you go wrong with cookies? :)
Cookie cookbook!
Hmm… that’s a tough choice! I would have to say cupcakes!
Your cupcakes look amazing!!
Sigh, I have to choose. I’m going to go with Cupcakes!
i will take cupcakes…..i already have cookies
Love your creativity! I love the cupcake pedastool! hard choice…cupcake book please:) Thanks for all your posts. I look forward to them every week.
How can I say no to the cupcake cookbook? :)
Cupcakes hands down…they’re bigger!
Those look sooooo good! I would love the cookie cook book!
I just left another disappointing cake decorating class, in a long line of disappointing decorating classes and would love to win the cupcake book. I’m sure I could just teach myself better than the dork I payed to teach me! Yeah, I’m bitter…but I love Bakerella!
Can I have both? Haha.. Am I being too greedy? I’ll be happy with the cupcake book. =)
I would love the cookie cookbook. These cookie/cupcakes look and sound yummy. I need to try them soon.
It’s a tough choice…I guess it would be cookies! By the way the cupcake pops are always the hit of the party when I make them! Thanks! I love your site!
Cookies!! Absolutely cookies!!
I would LOVE the cookie cookbook!!!!
I would rather have the cookie recipe and just stick to making cupcakes from boxed cake mix. HaHaHa
Thanks for a chance to win! :)
Would have to go with cookies!
Cupcakes all the way! ?
I would love the cookie cookbook. My girls who we adopted, are enjoying baking with me. I was given a Martha Stewart recipe for cookies on xmas and I can’t find them or the name, but would recognize them if I saw them.
I have no decorating skill and fair better in the COOKIES department! ;)
wow, tough choice…but I think I’d have to go with cookies. By the way, love the new look of the website. :)
hi bakerella! i’d looooooooove to have martha’s cookie book! :)
I’d love the cookie book!! but, honestly both look great!
Oooh, the cupcake one looks fantastic! I recently got bought Hello, Cupcake and haven’t stopped baking since! :)
Cupcakes!
I love snickerdoodles! This is a great idea; I’m going to have to try it out. And a cookbook contest? <3!
DEFINITELY THE COOKIE BOOK..=) COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES..<3
I would LOVE to have the cookie book, her cupcake book is fabulous and I would love to complete the set! :D
WOW!! that’s really amazing.
I would DIE for the cupcake cookbook, that’s if I won :)
I’d love the cookie cookbook if I won!
I would LOVE to win the cookie cookbook!!! =oD I already have the cupcake book, and if the cookie one is as good as it’s cupcake counter part, then I’ll be in heaven!
gosh.cant i have both?
ok.cupcakes then.but im not from the states.i dont know if im still eligible to enter.fingers crossed.
Snickerdoodles are my absolute favourites! These cupcakes look incredible! And that cupcake book looks even better.
While I’ve been burned by “the Martha” in the past, I’d love to try one of her books again .. Cookies, please! Christmas is coming, after all!
Cookies, please!! How exciting :)
If I’m the lucky winner, please email me at rj@rainjuliphotography.com!!
Hardest question ever… okay-cupcakes.
ADORABLE!!! I would love the cookie cookbook!!!
the cupcake book please :)
Oh this is like the hardest choice I’ve had to make in a while!
I guess I have to go with… cupcakes! THERE! Only because of the icing though…
I’d love the cookie cookbook! I love making batches of them and giving them out as gifts (and keep some for myself, of course!) :)
cookies.. no, cupcakes.. no, cookies.. no cupcakes.. too card to choose.. surprise me?
or does that break the rules?
I love bakerella! I have to visit your site everytime you post. My favorite is the cake pops. Were going to make Halloween ones for our party next week. I’m so excited! If I am picked I would love to have the cupcake book. I know me and my kids would have so much fun with it. Thank you so much for everything you do!
Mandy
Okay you are lucky there is a monitor between me and these cupcakes!! I just wanted to take a big bite!! I totally need those cupcake holders!! Everytime I look at your website, I just want to bake something sweet with LOTs of icing!!
Smiles!
I would love the cupcake book!!
Oh, Lord Have Mercy… this is almost cruel but I think I will go with cupcakes. (immediately I want to change my vote but then I want to change it back… aaaahhhhh)
If I had to pick, It would be the cupcake book. There are just so many different options to decorate cupcakes and most always come with frosting – which makes everything better.
Hmm it would have to be the cookie cookbook, because I love a cookie with my tea! Wow do these cookie/cupcakes look delicious, I think I may have to try them!
I would LOVE to have the cupcake book. I have two granddaughters that I care for and making cupcakes is one our favorite activities. I could really use the help with recipes.
Cupcakes please – they look like soooo much fun to make!
I already have the cookie book, which I adore, so I would love to have the Cupcake book! It looks fabulous!!!
ktpreusser@sbcglobal.net
So hard to choose. But I’ll have to say cookies. I just got another cupcake book! Yes, cookies it is.
i would love the cookie book! cookies are so much easier to make. just scoop and drop. who doesn’t love a good cookie?
those look soooo good!! I’ve never made snickerdoodles either.. i keep wanting too.. I just never get around to doing it for some reason..
I’d pick the cupcake book for one reason.. I already have the cookie book and I LOVE it :D I can just imagine how delicious the cupcake book would be!!
I actually just made some cupcakes for my son’s b-day that had chocolate chip cookie dough baked into the cupcake…fill cupcake liners 2/3rds full of cake batter, then place a frozen ball of cookie dough (about tbsp.) on top of cake batter. bake 18-20 min. And of course top with frosting….so good!
I really love the marth stewarts cookies!
Uh…cupcakes, of course! what a silly question. ;p
Oooooh…cupcakes!!!
Wow what a nice gift. This is definitely a tought choice but if I had to choose I would luv to have the cookie cookbook. Your website rocks. Thanks for the inspiration!
ooo, cupcakes. yum!!! i love your give aways!
These look too good and absolutely cute as well. And I wouldn’t mind Martha Stewart’s cupcake book. I ever saw her coconut cupcake on her show and have been wanting to make it ever since.
Mmmmm! What’s better than Snickerdoodles? Double Snickerdoodle cupcakes. I choose cupcakes though, because I think they have more cuteness potential.
Oh I’d love the cupcake book!!!!
yum yum! You are always so inspiring, and your posts are geeee-orgeous! Cupcakes, please!
Which frosting would you make next time? I would like the cupcake book. Thanks for letting me enter. Your site is GREAT!!
I would love the cookie book!!
i would love to win cupcake book.
Oh the cupcake one for sure! I long to make beautiful cupcakes, and I just love Martha.
Cupcakes please! I need to try something new.
Cool! The Cupcake book, please. :-)
I would love the cookie cookbook…I’m running out of ideas for Christmas!
I love, love, LOVE baking and to win either one of these books would be so amazing! But, I’d really enjoy the cookie book because I live out-of-State and am not always able to get back “home” for Christmas with the family.
Since they all love my baking, I make zillions (or so it seems, lol) of different cookies and carefully package them into a decorative box.
To me, its the best gift to give them because I took my time and did it out of love. :)
Oooo… so hard to choose! Let’s go with the cookie cook book!
You’re cupcakes look amazing.
I choose the cookie book!
Cupcake book, forgot!
Oh so cute! I’d love Martha’s cookie book. Thanks for all your cutest ideas!
God I love this site.
I would like the cookie cookbook! Thank you so much for your great ideas!
Cute cupcakes! I would love to win that cookie book!
Oh my Goodness!!!So inspiring.I would definitely have to choose the cupcake cookbook.It’s my daughters birthday tomorrow.We could share in the fun.
cookies please since i got the cupcake one for my birthday last month :)
Sabrina
twigglesandtrunks@ yahoo .com
I would love the cupcake book. Good cake recipes are hard to find. Plus, pretty pictures!
Cupcakes for me! :) Love your blog.
cupcakes for sure…. yum!
if I won, I would love to have the cupcake book! I LOVE CUPCAKES! :-P
how can one choose?? they are both deelish!! i would have to say that i make cookies more often tho!! so cookies it will be!! choose me!
I would love either, but would choose the cookie cookbook!
I tried the cake pops, and you are an artist, mine didn’t look near as perfect! I’ll keep practicing!
I have always been intrigued by the snickerdoodle. Now you have inspired me, I may just have to try my hand at them. And I would love the cupcake book! After all they are just perfect little things aren’t they?
These look delicious! My mom would make snickerdoodles when I was little and I remember getting to roll the cookies in a little bowl of cinnamon and sugar. It was fun and exciting! If I had to choose, I get the cookie book! I love baking cookies!
Sooooo love cookies and cupcakes and have done a number of Martha Stewart recipes….
I would love to get my hands on the cupcake book. I know Martha has a tres leche cupcake recipe I want to try. I have my fingers cross
I would love to own the cookie cookbook!!
I already have the cupcake book and am doing a Martha Stewart Cupcake Club. I would love love love the Cookie Book. Pleasssse! :)
Choose!? *ugggnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn* Ok – closing my eyes and pointing…… the cookie one.
I’d love either of them but since I have a lot of cookie books, I’d go with the cupcake book.
Leah
I really want the cookie cookbook. This is my first comment too.
OH! cupcakes..no! cookies,…NO! NO! cupcakes…OHHH! I can’t decide..helppppp me..
Cupcakes, of course..with fabulous frostings..YUM! YUM!
Cookies for sure!!!
i just can’t decide! you choose.
Wow! The cupcakes look fabulous! If you come across a better frosting recipe for it, please post it:o)
Also, I would ? the cupcake cookbook!
To quote the philosophical words of the great blue Cookie Monster….”Cooooooo-kies!!!!”
Cupcakes!! Cute!
Ooooo both look so great but… I think I would want the cookie book more. I’ve been on a cookie kick lately, and I’m running out of ideas. The master cookie taste tester (my boyfriend) would be so excited to have more samples :)
i really love your posts! I have tried several recipes and my husband loves them. I would really love the cupcake book!
If I HAD to choose I guess it would be the cupcake book.
Love all the ideas, keep them coming.
Considering I live in a house full of cookie monsters, I think the cookie book would be best!!
I would love to have Martha’s Cookie Book… I want it sooooooooooo very very bad I can taste it! : )
Wow, so hard to choose. I am on a cupcake baking spree right now so I would love to get some new ideas with a Martha Stewart cupcake book : )
Cookies. Yes, cookies.
I would love the cokie book. I already have the cupcake, and it’s one of my favorites!
I can’t decide!! But if I had to I guess I’d pick the cookie book, I already have several cupcake cookbooks. :)
Cookies! I love cookies!
Gosh that is a hard choice. Cookies win though.
I have the cookie one already (and love it!) so I would have to say the cupcake one to complete the collection!
I would love the cookie cookbook!
How about the cupcake book!
I think I would choose cupcakes. No, no, no, wait…cookies. Yup, definitely cookies. Or, maybe…hmm. Better go with my gut (hehe) cupcakes it is!!
I have to say that I am totally a cookie girl!
(but I do eat cupcakes)
I would love the cookie cookbook!
Oooo It’s hard to choose! :]
I guess the cookies book. i have a ton of cupcake books but no cookies! Yum! I can’t wait to make some!!!
Cupcakes! Every since you “sent” me to Retro Bakery (haha! I loved the bacon cupcake!) I have been on a cupcake craze!
I would love the cookie cookbook! And thank you so much for posting the link for the cupcake pedestals…I was already planning to ask before I got to the bottom!
I already have the cupcake book, so I would LOVE the Martha Stewart’s Cookies book!
tough decision, but since I already have many cookie books, I’d choose the cupcake one.
cookie cookbook!=)
I would love the cupcake book!
The cookies book! I really need inspiration on baking more cookies.
Love these!!! I have been DYING to get my hands on martha’s cupcake book!!! You are a true inspiration Bakerella!!
cookies! hands down!
yummmmss!! cookies pleassee!!
COOKES! yum yum yum…just earlier today I was claiming to be a cookie monster…
To pick one over the other would hurt feelings, I don’t discriminate in baking so it’s impossible to choose. The snickerdoodle is my favorite so I’ll have to try out this great duo you have made. Thanks for all the great inspiration.
I would LOVE getting the cupcake book. How fun!
Ooo, oo, pick me, pick me.
I think that both books look great, but would love to try out some of the recipes from the cookie book! I have almost bought both books at one time or in another in the past :D
Oh! I would love to have the cupcake book! I love cupcakes!
Since I already have the cookie one I guess it only makes sense to get eh cupcake one! Of course even if I didn’t have the cookie cook book, I’d still want the cupcake cook book. I like cupcakes more :)
I just love making cookies with my kids, the cookies on the cover look yummy. I would love the cookie cookbook! Love your site.
Definitely…COOKIES, please! :)
Love your blog! :)
I would love to have the cupcake book.
Making me decide, ugh, its cruel. I want both:) If you have to do it, then the cookie one would be my choice. Thanks for asking!
Love the cupcakes!
“yummy yummy cookies book please”!!!! that was what my 3 year old son said, so you have to listen to that =)
These are very cute. If I win I choose the cupcake book! I am hoping to make your tiny pumpkin bites this weekend. I am new to reading this blog. I check it all the time now. Thanks for the inspiration!
Cupcakes, for sure! With cookies, I only care that they’re tasty, but with cupcakes, I love to get fancy!
Goodness! Those look soo yummy, my hubby would die if I made those for him. I love her cupcake book, I bought it the day it came out. I would love the cookie book to go with it!
I’d love the cookie cookbook. My hubby is in pharmacy school and his buddies love when I send cookies with him to school :)
I would love the cookie book. I have the cupcake book and LOVE LOVE LOVE it! To put cupcake and cookie together is a marvelous idea! :)
I would love to have the cookie book as I already have the cupcake one and adore it! ;-)
Cookies!!
I would love that book. My best friends and I cook thousands upon thousands of cookies every Christams season and give them out at the Air Force base. We started while our husbands were deployed about 5 years ago. We average about 7,000 cookies between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are always looking for new ideas. After Christmas, I do not want to look at a cookie for awhile , it is then all about cakes and cupcakes.
My kids and I check your website weekly to see what fun treats you have made.
CUPCAKES…only because I am already the owner of Cookies:) I kick myself everytime I see it in the store and don’t buy it..maybe it is my lucky day!!
I would LOVE the cupcake cookbook. I love cupcakes!! So yummy and dainty and girly!!!
The cupcake book, please :D
I would love to have the cupcake book!!
Those really do look delicious! I’m a big cinnamon sugar fan so I’ll make and eat both with no problems! This is a hard choice to make but I think I will go with the…CUPCAKE COOKBOOK!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing with us!
way to make it difficult! i think i’ll go for the cupcakes. :)
Cupcakes for sure!
Oh, yes…the Cookie book!!!
I am terrible at making decisions! And it is so hard with two great books.
Hmmm….. I choose the Cupcake book!!!
Thanks Sweetie for all the creative ideas you bring to the table!
I would be so delighted to win either book as I love to BAKE! I made a cake using your trix spider idea this weekend and made the father’s day hamburgers and fries too! You do a great job showcasing how creative we can be when baking! I guess I’d have to say I’d love to win the cupcake book since I have a few cookie cookbooks already! Thanks!
I love Martha’s cupcake book and I already own it, so the Cookie book would be a great addition to my collection! Love the cupcake pedestals!
Definitely the Cookie book!! :)
The cookie book would be wonderful! Thank you for the opportunity to win one! steveandjulie03 at yahoo dot com
Cupcakes!
Oh my gosh I would love the cupcake book. I’m still sort of learning to bake (I mastered cooking a long time ago but the baking thing is kind of new!) and I would LOVE an inspirational cupcake book!
the cookie book for sure. i love your site. i drool at your work, both photographing and cooking!
I love cupcakes so I would have to say cupcakes! But your hybrid is super yummy looking!!!
I like them both!! So hard to choose….I guess….cookies?!? p.s. how cute are the individual cupcake stands?!!!!!
I would be happy with either, but if I had to choose I guess I’d pick the cookie cookbook!
The Cookie Book please!
I already have the cupcake book. :)
cupcakes! cookies recipes are coming out of my ears – time to mix it up!
Cookies!! =)
Ohhh… I am definitely going to have to try these cupcakes. Snickerdoodles are the best and add it on a cupcake, what’s not to love?
I definitely choose the cupcake book. Thanks for the giveaway (and of course all of the great inspiration)!!
I would SO love to get the Martha Stewart Cookies cookbook!! To me cupcakes are more of a springtime/summer treat (think cupcake bouquets, mother’s day, bridal showers etc…) cookies are so much more in season now!!
The cookie cookbook :) I have about 4 cupcake books, so it is time for me to branch out!
It’s a hard choice, but I’d have to go with the cookie book!
Really hard choice… but I think CUPCAKES!
i would pick the cupcake one, i LOVE cupcakes
I have to say I am more of a cookie girl, but just because I don’t feel AS guilty about eating 5 or 6 cookies all at once!
cookie cookbook hands down. I have a slight obsession with making them….