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 cupcakes cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!
I love cookies more than anything. I would love the cookie book!!
Yum! I just discovered your website – looking at a pumkin pie recipe from fresh pumpkin at Gingerbread Snowflakes, which then linked me to your Pumpkin Bites and that linked me to your Red Velvet Cake balls (oh my those look good – I’m having a dessert birthday party in November and those will definitely be on the menu – Red Velvet Cake is my favorite!) and now finding this delicious giveaway. Those cupcakes look GREAT, so for me, the cupcake cookbook would be an awesome treat to win.
I’ve bookmarked your site and will be back to drool again and again. Thanks for creating it for all of us to read and enjoy!
Pam
MS Cookies!
CUPCAKES! petite. adorable. gotta have ’em =] I want to eventually start my own blog, but untill then I need to practice, practice aaaaand practice, so I would absolutely love to own Martha’s cupcake book!
Cupcakes!! I am known as the “cupcake lady” around here and would love to copy some of the cute ideas…
Ooo, cupcakes! I love to make cookies; do so regularly. But for some reason I’m afraid of cake in general, and I just love cupcake cuteness.
Both books sound like fun…but I’d love to have Martha Stewart’s Cupcake Book! Oh the messes the kids and I could make ;)
I already have the Cupcake book (which is awesome!) so I’d go with the Cookie one :)
Mmm, cookies every time. Especially snickerdoodles.
Cupcakes for sure!
I’d love the cookies! Looks really great (and makes me feel like having cookies for dinner!)
I LOVE a good cookie! So IF I had the GOOD LUCK of winning, I would LOVE to add the Cookie Recipe Book to my collection!
PS your new site is beautiful! love everything you do…..thanks!
Mmmm… i want. ps – you are my hero!
Cookies! Me likey cookies!
The cookie book looks good.
They both look great but I make cookies more than cupcakes so if I had to choose I would want the cookie book.
Cupcakes please! I would love the cupcake book!
Hi,
I’m writing you from Hungary, Europe! :) It’s not in your message that people from abroad can not leave a message for you! :)
So… I would love to get Martha Stewart’s Cupcake book! The reason: the real cupcakes are not very known in Hungary but I would like to learn how to make and bake them and inspire my family and friends to learn some new cupcakes recipes.
Anyway your website is a amazing! Love it!
Zita
I so love your website – these snickerdoodle cupcake cookies look wonderful!
I’d love either book if I win! ;)
Cookies! I already have the cupcake one. :)
Would love the cookie cook book!
cookies! so portable and tasty. i like to make treats for my friends and classmates – we’re in law school so anything to brighten our days!
Cookie cookbook please!! :0)
Cookies!
Wow. I have never seen a giveaway with so many responses. Thank you for the opporunity. If Im lucky enough to win, I would love the cupcakes book.
Yum….can’t wait to try these! I love snickerdoodles!
The cookie book!!! Perfect for the holiday baked goods I’m gearing up for. sftacek@earthlink.net
I love these duos! What a great idea!
It’s a tough decision, but I’d love to win the cupcake book.
I would love the cupcake book!!
This is REALLY tough. I have checked both of them out of the library and truly want both. I want to make the peanut butter cupcakes again from the cupcake book (they are awesome), so I guess that is my choice. I love your blog!
Martha Stewart’s Cookies!
Cookies look yummy!
I LOVE to look at your website! You always have such great pictures! I would like to have the Martha Stewart cupcake book.
I’d take the cookie book!
cookies, cookies, cookies hands down… but the snickerdoodle cupcake hmmmm great idea but still cookies…
I wish I had time to make everything I see here – and the willpower to not eat it all if I did!
Do we have to decide? They both look equally tempting, but I’ll have to go with the cookie book so I can find some new recipes for my holiday cookie plates!
I would love the cookie book. I love cupcakes but that means I have to too much of them and cookies make more so I can easily share. My mom use to make snikerdoodles for me growing up. I haven’t had them in ages.
Cupcakes please. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’m a cookie monster!!! I’d love the cookie cookbook please!
Btw, I am totally making your pumpkin bites for my Halloween party – yummy! :)
I think I’d use the cupcake book more…I love cupcakes!!
Cookie cookbook, please. I love your site, everything looks so good and you present it so attractively. Thanks.
I would like the cookie book please :-)
I would love the cookie cookbook!
I would love the cupcake book!
Cookies! I love making cookies!
Definately the cupcake book! Thanks
I am by far a die-hard cupcake fan! Go team cupcakes!!
I always look longingly at Martha’s Cupcakes book but never buy it… grad school is too expensive!
Love your recipes and creations and I love trying them out myself even more!
Ohhh the cookies. I have a bunch of cookie monsters in my house and love to bake cookies for them!
as much as i love cupcakes i think they are a bit of a pain in the behind (to wash the pans – cause i don’t always have liners – and to transport), SO . . … I would prefer the cookie book.
can’t wait to try the snickerdoodle cupcakes!
BTW – – – what type of frosting would you suggest?
I would really like the cupcake book. I love making cupcakes.
COOKIES!!! (Thanks :)
cookies, please!
I’d love the Cookies cookbook! Thank you!
I’d totally be torn on a decision like that! But I’d still love to win and be forced to make a decision!!!
Both books would be a great addition to my collection, but I would rather have the cupcake book because I don’t really like cookies for my own treats. Besides I love cupcakes!!
I LOVE your blog and I love, love Snickerdoodle cookies!! I would really love to win (wow that’s a lot of love for one comment).
I will definately be making the cookies & cupcakes, thank you for the recipes!!!
Such a hard choice!! I’d be perfectly happy with either one… but since you’re making me choose… I’ll say cupcakes!
I would love the COOKIE book! I love COOKIES!!!!!
I’d love a cupcake book, I have too many cookie books as it is. Cupcakes are getting more and more popular every day and I can always use a recipe for more. Thanks! Love your blog!
I would like the Cupcake book. Your recipes are awesome!
I have the cupcake book and I LOVE IT!!! I’d love the cookie book! SO yummy looking!
The cookie book. I’d make a new cookie EVERY day!
Ohh, most definitely the cupcake book!! Although I’m a lover of the good old fashioned chocolate chip cookie, cupcakes are my weakness. I’m ordering a set of those pedestals – so cute I can barely stand it!!
I have been oggling the cupcake book since it came out. I’m totally in love with your website too!! Please random number picker pick me!!!!!
I would love the cupcake one. I’ve just been asked to make cupcakes for my sis-in-laws upcoming rehearsal dinner for her wedding and I could use some inspiration.
I love your site, and I would love love love the Cookie Book!!!
hard decision, but the cupcake book!!!
Cupcakes book!! :>
Oooohhhh…it is such a hard decision, they both look great. I have been really into making cupcakes lately, but the cookie is a classic!! OK, i would love to have the CUPCAKE book.
Cupcakes
Definitely the cupcake cookbook. Looks delightful!
I could write my own cookie cookbook , I think, with all my favorites! I’d like to try something new, send me the cupcake book! Love the blog, stay sweet!
cookie one!
I’d love either! But forced to choose I guess I’d pick the cookie one!
I would love to have the cookies cookbook. I love cookies and make them all the time:)
well…I will have to pick cupcake cookbook! I would rather have both, but will just have to get one on my own! Love the look of the snickerdoodle cupcake/cookies…might be whipping those up soon!
Although this is a difficult decision, I have to choose the cookie book. (Cookies are quicker to sneak a bite).
Oh my gosh I can’t choose!!!!
Cupcakes are so adorable and I know that book’s got tonsssss of new really cute receipes :D
Holy COW…have a popular site will ya!! You are the BOMB!! I love it all!!! You are so talented and inspiring!!! I’d take either book…no preference really!! Thanks for the giveaways!!
Ooooh! Cupcakes for me please!
Cupcakes! Mini, handheld chunks of heaven and icing, yum.
cookies!
While I would love either of them, I would love love love the cupcake book. I have wanted that book forever. Thank you for your blog, it always gives me show stopping desserts and they are so much fun to bake.
Thanks!
Becky
bex.marie@yahoo.com
Hmmm, I’m thinking cookies!
WOW! How fun :) I think my girls would like the cookie book.
Thanks :)
Cupcakes!!!! I love cupcakes!!
It is so hard to decide! cookies…..no wait cupcakes…..Aah!
I choose cupcakes..final answer.
How, what a tough choice. The kids and I love making both. I think I’d have to go with the cupcake book though. They both look delicious.
I was going to say the cookie book since I love my Hello Cupcake book and would have stayed faithful to it, but the snickerdoodle cupcakes sound SO good I am totally excited about the rest of the book, I would love to have the cup cake book. What a fun giveaway, thanks.
Jada
I would love to have the cupcake book, no the cookie book, no the cupcake book…. oh I would love to have both. Either one would absolutely be wonderful.
HMM. I like cookies more, but I wonder if it would be better to have a cupcake cookbook? Seems like there is more to do with them. Yes. I would choose the cupcake cookbook, but I am not a cake person and like cookies better :) I love all of your great ideas!
Okay I’m finding it harder that I thought to pick a book! alright I’m going with cookie…yeah cookie, lol.
I am soooo a cupcake girl!!! It has to be Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes! :)
What a tough choice, but I choose the cupcake book!
I would love, love, love the cupcake book. I would definitely have to buy the cookie one as well.
Recently found your wesite and I’m loving your fun and creative ideas! Especially the snickerdoodle cupcakes I’m with you why have to choose when you could have cupcakes and cookies in one! Heavenly! I’d have to say the cookie cookbook though since I have quite a few cupcake books.
I would LOVE the cupcake book.
I would LOVE the cupcake book! I saw it at Target a while ago. Everything in it is adorable!
ooooh the cupcake one.
Heck I didn’t even know there was such a thing as snickerdoodle cupcakes….
We need motivation for more cupcakes so the cupcake book please.
Ohh, tough decision. . . since I know for cupcakes I’d get lazy and use a box mix most of the time I should get the cookie book. Thanks!
I want the cookie booooook!!!!!!!!!! They all look so adorable!
Cookies! I mean, I love cupcakes and all but there’s just something about cookies that steal my heart!
Ooh, tough choice. Both look gorgeous, but I think cookies takes the cake, so to speak.
TOO CUTE!!! What a neat way to have both. I think I would enjoy having the cookie book.
Cupcakes! :)
Oooh these look delicious. This is a really hard decision but I think I’d want the cookie book!!
Though I would gladly take either (or both! ha!) I think I would have to choose cookies – that would probably get more use!
I have the cookie book and it totally rocks! So I would reallllly like the cupcake book!
I love all things Martha and I’m sure they’re both fantastic cookbooks but I’m drawn to all things cookie so I’d rather have the cookie cookbook. I’m crossing my fingers!!
Martha Stewart’s Cookies! I’ve already got Cupcakes and I love it (I’ve been meaning to try the Snickerdoodle cupcakes, they look so good!).
YUMMY! I would love to win either but I do have some cookie cookbooks already so I guess I have to say cupcakes… although… AAAHHH!! They’re both so great. Cookies… no cupcakes. Yes… that’s my final answer.
Oh this is just too hard to choose. They both sound so good. Cookie cookbook, thats what the kids are yelling. Thanks so much for the chance to win. The cupcake pedestals are so cute. Your snickerdoodle cupcakes and cookies look so yummy, I am going to make them today.
The cookie book! :D
I was so happy to find your site a couple of month ago, everything looks so yummy! I’m making Snickerdoodles this weekend for sure. :D
Thanks for the great ideas.
cookies please! YUM! They both look delish.
I would LOVE the cookie cookbook! Cookies always remind me of home and growing up with my mom’s wonderful cookies after school :)
I think I just drooled on the keyboard…oops. I would LOVE the cupcake book.
Thanks so much for your generosity!
Ummm…Cupcakes but I would totally take the cookie book too. :)
They are so cute. What a great idea, you are so creative. As for choosing between both books I would have to say the cookie book.
The Martha Stuart cookie book has been on my Amazon wishlist for months! It is such a great book! I would love to own it!
Ooooh, that’s a difficult decision!!! Cookies….or cupcakes….. I think I’ll choose cookies :-)
cookies!
Ugh! An impossible decision! I’m choosing cookies! No wait! Cupcakes! Ack! Cookies! *covering my eyes with my hands* Surprise me!
Hey Bakerella, I’d like the Cookie one, but either is fine :-)
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I love your website. Just looking at it makes me drool. I can’t wait to try the Snickerdoodles! I would love to receive a copy of the cookie book. Thank you!
I probably would want the cupcake book.
But I love to make and eat BOTH.
Oo, oo, pick me! I want the cupcake cookbook!!
Did you say it would be easy to choose?! I guess I would choose the cookies… no the cupcakes… NO! THE COOKIES!!! Yes, the cookies. I think. Thanks for the chance!
I would love the cookie book as I already have the cupcake one!
Well, seeing how I already bought the cookie book because I couldn’t wait any longer for it, I’d have to say the cupcake book!
I would love the cookie book. Thank you for all your fantastic ideas!
COOKIES please!
I would love the cupcake book. I want to learn how to decorate cakes, but i would love to start small. Cupcakes are so cute! You have lots of great ideas on you website, too!
Cupcakes!!!!!!
Pick me!!!!
That’s a tough choice! I think I’d rather have the cookie book! thanks for the chance! :)
I would say the cookie book! I’m definitely going to have to try the snickerdoodle recipe too.
Very tough choice. I would probably get more use out of the cookie book. Although, the cupcake one would be fun to have around. But, the cookie book. Definitely would like the cookie book.
C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me. Love your site! It’s dangerously inspiring!
I would love the cookie book! :)
Cupcakes! I already have the cookie book and use it ALL the time.
I want them both!! But I guess I will choose the cookie one!
Thanks- I LOVE your blog!!!
The cupcake book sounds really interesting. I’ve been making cookies for awhile but just recently started getting interested in cupcakes so I’d love to learn some new ideas!
I would love the cupcake book! (I admit, I have an obsession with cupcakes!)
Oooh I would love the cupcake book… mmm… and endless supply of cupcake recipes sounds amazing. :)
What a tough choice! I think the cuteness factor wins out for me though, so I’d really love the cupcake book!
Either one looks great. Maybe the cookie one?
Cupcakes, PLEASE!!
Cookies! I LOVE Snickerdoodle cookies, I think they might be my favorite. I believe them to be so very underrated due to the lack of chocolate anything but they are oh so good!
They both look sooo yummy – but since I tend to make cupcakes and want some variation – the cookie book please!!
Love your site by the way! I have recommended it to my friends and read/drooled through most of your entries my first day here!!
I love, love, love cookies! That is the book I would like to own. Also, I just love your website. You inspire me to bake and have fun. I made your pumpkin pie bites the other day and gave them out as happy fall treats to some friends. It was sooo easy. Thanks!
ooo…cupcakes please!
love ure site! such yumminess. my love is always CUPCAKES PLEASE!
Hey Bakerella! Your treat always look SO delicious! If I win the drawing, I would like the cookie book!
I didn’t know Martha Stewart had a Cupcake cookbook! I have her cookie book and I LOVE IT! Obviously I would choose the cupcake book if I was picked.
Love your site by the way! I want to try your recipes every time I read, but no one in my hiouse asides from me will really eat sweets, and I don’t want to get fatter! Maybe it’s time to send them off to other people so I can get my baking fix!
A difficult decision, but I’ll choose the cookie book!
Forgot to say which book. I think the cupcake book, but either would be wonderful! kfuhler@sbcglobal.net
Hmm, what a difficult choice! I think maybe the Cupcakes book would be a wonderful addition to my cookbooks. I can take them already!
I would love, love, love the cookie book!!! I started out with cake, but quickly found cookies to be more fun!
I love cookies and cupcakes! I would be happy with either one and so would my kids! They like it when I play in the kitchen.
Would love to win!
I would love the cupcake book. I love experimenting with baking but just do not have the patience for cookies!
Cupcake Book! Your pictures are adorable. Every time I read your blog, it makes me want to bake. Thanks for sharing your talents with us!
I would loooove the cookie book! I live in a dorm-style apartment and finding storage for a whole big tray of cupcakes is hard, storing cookies (and giving them away) is so much easier!
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I would loooove the cookie book! I live in a dorm-style apartment and finding storage for a whole big tray of cupcakes is hard, storing cookies (and giving them away) is so much easier!
I love the look of the new website! Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookies, so these cupcakes look absolutely fabulous. I would love to have the cupcake book, I saw it the store and have wanted it ever since!!
I’d LOVE the cupcake cookbook.
All my friends are demanding cupcakes for their birthday, and I would love some new ideas!
I own and love Martha’s cookie book. It’s my go to guide for my holiday cookie baking. I would love the cupcake book as its companion!
Just beautiful. Cookies please!
That is a tough choice!! I think cookie…yeah cookie that sounds good.
hmmm…i love cookies…..and i love cupcakes!!
hard decision….
so…the cupcake book looks like deliciousness!!!
I would like the Cookie cookbook. I make cookies with my friends every holiday season to share with our churches and communities. It is a great way to get the kids involved in doing something nice for someone else that shows you took the time.
I would love the Cookie Cookbook, since I have the cupcake one, signed by Martha herself!
Cupcakes!! They’re my favorite :-)
Cookies! … NO! Cupcakes! Jeeze, I’d have to toss a coin!
I would love the cookie one!
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I am addicted to your website!! I found bakerella a around april or may and I have been hooked ever since. I had the cupcake cake balls at my daughters wedding and they were a huge hit! My daughter’s nickname is cupcake and her favorite cake is red velvet, so it was perfect! You rock!!!
I would like the cookie cookbook so that I can make things with my sister for our friends children and our God Children.
Cookies are the best!
Oh gosh, its a hard choice!! I absolutely LOVE homemade cookies…but cupcakes are always a great party favor when I entertain, moreso than cookies. So, I guess the cupcake book wins!! YIPEE for the giveaway!!!
I would like the cookie cookbook. Thanks for showing us new fun ideas!
I would love to have the Cookie book. It’s a tradition in my family to make Christmas cookies and I’m sure there are new recipes in the book that would be fun to try!
I think I would like the cookie cookbook so that I can do something special for my girlfriend with her daughters.
Hard to choose but I’ll have to go with cookies
My daughters love to bake and I would liketo make them something out of the cookie cookbook.
I would really love the cupcake cookbook!!
Too bad my brain can’t come up with all these cute goodies. Maybe if I win Martha’s COOKIE BOOK, that will help!
Definitely the cupcakes!! There are so many ways to dress up and decorate a cupcake for every holiday!! Not to mention there is just something sooooo delicious about a moist little cake with gooey topping or centre!!
so hard to decide! but i think the cupcake book would be my favorite
Ooh, ooh! Cupcake book please!
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I would rather have cookies, as they seem to last longer in the house than cupcakes! That’s mostly because I can hide a few in a baggie from the dessert monsters. :)
Cupcakes, definitely. :) I love cupcakes!
Oh wow! That’s so kool. I would love to have the cupcake one if I was choosing. I would always choose cupcakes over cookies any day of the week. Especially at the moment, I’m under going dental work so I can only eat soft things!
Always cupcakes! Recipes w/o chocolate get moved to the bottom of my list too!
I am SUCH a cupcake-oholic :) And I LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog… I would LOVE to have this cupcake book :) It’s just seems like there are so many amazing recipes and ideas!!
Thanks :)
I want the cookie book!!!!
I would love the cookie book, I have the cupcake :)
I love your site.
What fun! I’d love the cookie cookbook!