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.
Both books look amazing! I love making cookies though!!! I’d take the cookie book in a heartbeat! :)
I would love the cookie cookbook! Love your snickerdoodle combo!!!
you’re always giving away such cool stuff ;) i’d love to win the cookie cookbook. cookies i can make. cupcakes? not so much.
I LOVE Cupcakes! I just found a high end cupcake bakery near our apartment and they have been HEAVEN! Would love to have the cupcake cookbook so I could make those fancy ones myself!
I already have and love, the Cupcake Book. So,it’s the Cookie Book for me!
IT’S SO HARD FOR ME TO PICK! i think i would choose the cupcake book. when i finish school (15 atm) i am going to london with a friend so i can do cooking school there. I’ve always made cupcakes and am always willing to do some new form of decorating on them. thats why i go onto your website all the time…it’s fantasic for that sort of thing!
I also have a secret obsession with martha stewart and her cupcake knowledge…..
Cupcakes – definitely! Cupcakes are the perfect dessert – not too much, not too little!
Definitely the cupcake book because I have two little boys who LOVE LOVE LOVE cupcakes :)
I think I’d have to go for the Cookies book… I already have 5 cupcake books, and no cookie, so it’s an easy choice for me!
BTW, your new website looks awesome!
Cupcakes please! They look beautiful. And it is so hard to get a good cupcake here in the UK!
I would love the cookie book! Isn’t Martha so nice to give us all her cute, fun, creative ideas???
Hmmm I love making all different kinds of cookies for the holidays so I lean towards the cookie book, but cupcakes are so much fun!! Since I don’t have any cupcake books, I’d have to choose the cupcake book!
I love your blog so much! I was just wondering….the cream of tartar is very hard to come by overhere in the Netherlands. Is there anything else I could use. Baking powder, perhaps? Dont´t know if you are willing or able to send a book overseas, but I would love to receive the cupcake-book.
What a hard choice. I had to flip on it because I would love both. I will take the cupcake book. :) YUMM
Would love a cookbook. My children and I love to bake together. The kids love decorating cupcakes…I’ve made several of your creations and everyone loves them.Thanks
I just love to look at your blog and see your beutyfull photographs!
And if I’d win this giveaway I’d pick Cupcake book.
I’d love either book but I already have lots of cookie books…….so maybe the cupcake book is my choice!
Gotta go with cookies. I love making cookies.
I would love the cupcake book to give me inspirations and ideas.
Those cupcakes are do cute and tasty looking! Although I love love love me some cookies I would choose the cupcake book. The pictures in both books are amazing!
I’d looove one of your wonderful cupcakes… and the cookie book, if I must choose.
much love from switzerland!
Your photographs are always so amazing… I want to eat your site! lol ;-)
In this I’d love to have the cookie book… cuz I already have Martha’s cupcake one.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love the pedestal and liners. I also LOVE snickerdoodles. They are my favorite cookie.
What a tough choice! I keep going back and forth. I think I will go with cookies.
I would love the cupcake book!! Yum!
I would LUV the cupcake book!! I would LUV to win!! I would LUV to brag that I won! I would LUV to mention how much I LUV your Bakerella website too!
Hi! I would like the cookie book (since cookies are the only thing our “oven” can cook well). If I win (I hope!), you can contact me at seltzer.schmeltzer@gmail.com
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Cupcake book please. Love your site!!!
I’d love to have her cupcakes book. While I think the cookies would be awesome too, I have a 2yr old and I think cupcakes are soon to be a staple of my future. :)
oh, yum! I think I’d like the cookie book stacked on top of the cupcake book!
Because there is now way I can decide :)
Thanks for the chance to win the books.
I really really want the cookie cookbook!
I’m a cookie girl!
First of all… your cupcakes look even more delicious because of the fantastic pictures you make!!!! and the pedestal detail is adorable!
Anyway… I would like the cupcakes book… let’s see if I can spread these recipes also here in Italy. so they finally became well known here too. We have so many cakes/sweets and no cupcakes :-( each time I see all the store you have I so would like to be there!!!
yum! these look great!! the cupcake book looks like so much fun, i’d prob gain ten pounds just flipping through it!!
Cupcakes! No doubt about it! :D And those Cupkies, er, Cookcakes, er… they look amazingly cute! <3
Cookies are more my style :) Yum!
Since I allready have the Cupcake-book, I would love to get the one about Cookies. Love your site :o)
Definitely the cookie book.. I bake cookies about once a week and it would be great to have some new recipes.
I am definintely going to try the snickerdoodle recipe sometime soon. I wonder if it would be good as a Christmas cookie?
We are a cookie family
Id go for cookies.. just because! Here’s to hoping for the draw!
I would love the cookie book!
Hands down the cookies!! I definitley feel like less of a piggy when I make (see eat) a dozen cookies as opposed to a dozen cupcakes… :)
OMG yum. These look perfect!
I love cupcakes but cookies are hard to beat! I always wanted to know what Snickerdoodles were too, we don’t have them in Australia!
The cookie cookbook would be great! My husband is very hard to please with cookies lol So some Martha Stewart recipes would be awesome :) Thanks!
Mmmmm… It is a hard choice, but I will have to go with cookies. Yummy Cookies!
tough choice… me thinks cookie book.
I guess I’d go with the cupcake book. And then I’d probably buy the cookie one later. ;-)
cookies please :)
Such a hard choice, but I would have to choose the cookie book!
I’d have to go with cupcakes :)
Both, I want both! But I think I would start with the cupcake one!
I think you can tell which I will choose from my e-mail :-)
I’ll take cupcakes!!
I would choose the cookie one!
I love Snickerdoodles! I remember making them as a kid. I would love to win the cupcake book. Thanks for sharing all your ideas!!
No contest- I’d love the cupcake book! Thanks for the giveaway!
Oooh, I love snickerdoodles! Anything with cinnamon is right by me :)
The cupcake book looks yummy, but I can’t resist a good cookie.
cookie! cookie!!…i would love the cookie book! :) your website is such an inspiration..looking at the cupcakes you bake makes me droollll…..
Ohhh hard choice- but it’s gonna have to be the cookie book.
That’s a tough choice! I would go for Cupcakes – simply because Iove them :)
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It’s really a tough call, but I’ll pick the cookie book!!! All of the cookies in the pictures look soooooooo pretty and delectable!
hello from the philippines! :) i prefer chewy crunchy delectable cookies! cookie book it is! i really really love your website bakerella. thanks for sharing and giving.
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Cookies!! I’m constantly on the lookout for healthy snacks for my little man – of course none of those look healthy but they sure do look good!
i love your blog!!
love those butiful and inspiring pictures!
both books look great, and i would love to have them both…
thank’s!
I definitely would love to have the cookie book!!
I’d pick the cookie book! I think the pics of your cupcakes are great.
I would love the cupcake book! I love making cupcakes and bringing them into my husband’s work!
Oh I would just love to bake cupcakes with my daughter… that is the book for me!
Love your site!
I’d love the cupcake cookbook! I moved to England from California four years ago and cupcakes are finally beginning to catch on here (albeit slowly). Cupcakes truly are the way forward.
I think both look wonderful, but the cupcake book is looking inspiring!! I LOVE your website. Thank you!!! Diane
Thanks for the great site and adorable ideas you share. I would love the cupcake book!
Love your site and receiving the e-mails, but this is the first comment I’ve ever left. I want the cupcake book for my daughter! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas.
I would love to have the cookie book…I already have the cupcakes one and it´s amazing…thanks
oh i would love the cookie book. i have the cupcake booke and this would make my set complete!!! btw- i made a variety of cake balls for dessert at my sis-in-law’s baby shower and i thought they were going to be devoured before they were ever completely put out of the container. :)
Cupcakes, I just love cupcakes!
Ooooh!! The cupcake one is begging me to give it a new home..! :P If you ship to Sweden that is. Maybe I can find a tip for my upcoming wedding! Have to have cupcakes on my wedding…
hi!
i think i’d love to win the cupcake book, and pass it on to my little cupcake who’s in boston attending law school!
Cookies. No, cupcakes, No.. Cookies…
aaahhhgggg. BOTH???
Cupcakes are the top notch of desserts – your own mini cake that won’t make you sick (as with a normal cake you would’ve eaten all of it hence the full sick stomach) I’ve never seen Martha’s cookbooks in Australia :(
I’m always on the search for yummy, beautiful, unique cookies! I would LOVE the cookie book. Thank you!!
Katie
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AUGH they look too good!
Cookies :)
I’d love either, but the cookie book wins it!
I’m a cookie girl, all the way! I don’t know that I’ve ever asked this question before, but how do you eat the snickerdoodle cupcakes?!? I sure wouldn’t want to do it in public :) After I licked off the icing, I’d devour the cookies of course!
Oh the cupcakes are to darn cute but I love the cupcake pedestals! Might have to look into those. I would love love love to have the cupcake book. Thanks for the chance to win :)
Since I already have the cupcake book, I’d love to have the cookie book!
Definitely the cookie book! :)
I would looooooooooooooove the cookie cookbook.
I’d love the cookie book, my cookies turn out so similar in taste no matter the recipe…
I think its the book that chooses the person. And the cookie book would definitely NOT choose me – i’m too much of an airhead! Too spongy and crumbly – believe me I crumble under pressure. But normally once opened people find me all sweet and gooey coz there’s chocolate in the middle. Hey, they say you are what you eat! So to summarise, cupcakes please!
It’s a tough choice…So I understand that in your last post you also didn’t want to decide and just made cookies AND cupcakes. ;-)
I think I would go with the cookies book!
definitely the cupcake cookbook!!
I would love to win the cupcakes book !! I can help it ! I love them ^^
CUPCAKES…HANDS DOWN!
Well, I have to say that I love this site, first of all!!! Second, I really want to cookie book. I am a hobby cake decorator, but my husband and my son love cookies more than cakes and cupcakes, so would love to have the cookie book for them. Thanks.
Cookies!! I love variety in chewy, crispy, crunchy cookies!
Easy. Cookies.
The cupcake one for sure :) I love love love cupcakes. Love reAding ur blog it’s so Awesome
You’re really going to make a pregnant lady CHOOSE JUST ONE!?!?! Torture. I’m going to have to go withCookies on this one!
I would really like to try all the recipes of de cookie book!
I recently tried to make the cake balls. They were so good!
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That cupcake book is a book I would read from cover to cover …then bake each and every cupcake . What a prize that would be. I wish …I wish …I wish….
I would love to win the cookie book!! I really would make great use of the cookie book :)
I absolutely adore the cookies one!!! :) xxx
Oh god, i love your website, more and more. sometimes i need a dictionnary but i love.
And i love cookies too, so maybe if i win i choose … the cookies :)
inspirational blog, fancy my chances to win cookies book.
well from the doyenne herself, I think I’d have to say the cupcake book … I seem to be starting quite a collection, now I just have to get my boyfriend to understand that they really could be coffee table books!!! well done, love this idea!
Oooh! Cookies. Definitely cookies.
Oooh cookies. Me da cookie monster…..must have cookie…yummmmm……
Oh my goodness what an opportunity …. would love the chance to win the cookie book please. Love this site, you are soooo inspirational.
Thank you x
I would LOOVEEEE to make Cookies!! because cookies are ALL about the TASTE!!
that would be a tough one. I think cupcake though…
The snickerdoodle cupcakes are super cute and look yummy!
I love to make cookies. So, I’d like the cookie book please.
Cookies for me, I’m not much of a fancy cupcake girl.
CUPCAKES! DUH! Cupcakes are uber cool. I give them as birthday presents! Plus, cupcakes are fun to eat because they give you little frosting mustaches. LOL. <3 the cupcakes. xx
Cupcakes for sure! :) I love the snickerdoodle cupcakes! They are great!
I bake cookies all the time. I’d love to have both of these cookbooks. Being I have other cookie cookbooks. I love to have the cupcake cookbook. (p.s. I make snickerdoodles all the time. The whole family love them. From my oldest daughter to my youngest grandson.
I would love love the cupcake book!!!
I love cinnamon, it gives the “something” different in the taste… as for the book – I would prefer the cupcakes book…
Whatever you do, I like it… your way of presentation is simple and understable…
Cookies, gotta have the cookies.
I just wanted to say I your site has a hipnotic affect on me, I would like the Martha Stewart Cookies cookbook.
Decisions, decisions! I have to pick cookies because of that chocolate covered chocolate cookie on the bottom right. Yum!
the cupcake book!!! already have the cookie book(it’s amazing!!!)
Those are so adorable!!! I love the idea of having a cookie and a cupcake all in one. Oh yum.
I would love to have that cupcake cookbook…I don’t think that fad is going away any time soon. Soooooo cute and yummy! The perfect one serving size treat (unless you eat 10).
Oooooh, please can I have the cookie cookbook? My dad has the book and I’ve tried a few recipes, all of which were WONDERFUL…. but I live far away from home and my own copy would sure sweeten up my life!
i wants teh cupcake book. You can never have enough.
The Cupcake one for sure!!!
I love making all kinds of mini things, and cupcakes seem to be what I am stuck on right now. I made mini cheesecakes with raspberry topping for our tailgate party yesterday…needless to say they were a HUGE hit. I am planning on trying your mini pumpkin pies for Halloween and I might make these ones for this weekend! Thank you for the inspiration!!!
cupcake book, please. it looks amazing!
i need to reawaken my love of cupcakes. i dont want to say that i’ve fallen out of love with them, but right now it’s a rocky relationship.
The pictures of those cookies make me drool! Definitely I’m a cookie girl! I would loooove to have that cookie cookbook :D!
I would love the cookie book, it looks like an amazing book!
I def gotta try those snickerdoodle muffins sometime as well. They way they are a cookie and muffin at the same time is awesome!
Tough Choice ~ However I would definitely use the cookie book more!
OOOh, I have been looking at the cupcakes book.
Oooh I would love that cookie book! I have been admiring it for ages :)
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I would love the cupcake cookbook!
Cupcakes!
Definitely cookies, they are so versatile! Love the cupcake pedestals though, super cute!
I love cinnamon, so I LOOOOVE snickerdoodles!
I’d also love to have the cupcake book…Martha is my guru.
I think I would have to go with the cupcake book. I’ve already been drooling over that one, and while cookies are delicious, cupcakes seem to have a flair that cookies never have. Plus, I’m a sucker for some good cake. Cupcakes please!
ooooh….the cookie cookbook would be awesome!
I LOVE cinnamon!!
I have so many cupcakebooks already so for now I choose the cookiebook., but they both look gorgeous!!
I am new to cupcakes, but I am in LOVE with them – and with you and Martha as my teachers, how can I go wrong! The cupcake book for me please! :)
I would love the cupcake cookbook! This was a tough decision by the way. :) I love snickerdoodles, one of the easiest, best cookies ever.
It would have to be the Cupcake book — I can never have enough cupcake recipes to try!
I hear it as clear as day, the cupcakes are calling me but I can’t seem to find them anywhere, so I’ll take one cupcake book to go please lol, and I just love those cupcake pedestals
Everything you make puts a smile on my safe and a few more pounds on my scale hihihihi
I have been eyeing that cookie book for awhile. Sure would be nice to win!
Oh Snickerdoodles are my favorite!!
I already have Martha’s cookie book, but I’ve been drooling over that cupcake book for a while now… :)
I would love the cookie book! Cupcakes are good… But cookies are the bet!!
Hmmm !!
I am French and in my country there isn’t cupcake’s book !
I would love to win the Martha Stewart’s book and finally learn to make pretty cupcakes! Cupcake … I love you =)
COOKIES PLEASE!
I would love either but if I had to choose I would choose the cupcake one. I saw so many of the episodes on Martha’s show where she baked a lot of the cupcakes shown in the cookbook. They all look so wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win.
I would love her cookie book!!!! I just bought her cupcake book, yummy!!!
Cupcakes are where the frosting’s at, baby!
CUPCAKE BOOK :)
Cookies please! You can never have enough!
CUPCAKES :D
I love Martha and I already have the two books but Id’ like to offer the cookies book to my sister !
Your little cupcake pedestals are so adorable !!!
cookies for sure!
Oh my goodness, NOM! I would love the cookie cook book!
I think they are cupcakes…but whatever they are, they are stinkin’ cute!! I would love the cupcake book! (or cookie one…both are great I’m sure!)
thanks! :)
Your cookie topped cupcakes are adorable. I’ll have to confess that I’ve never made snickerdoodles either, but these look so yummy I may have to make some as soon as I get the breakfast dishes washed!
I’d love to have either book, but if I have to choose I’d pick the cupcake book.
The photography in the cupcake is just to die for…I find myself flipping through it in the book shop all the time.
Would love to have the cupcake cookbook!!
You always have the best giveaways :)
Thanks for shaing this recipe, they ook yummie, and I think I’ll try it. Hoping I find time today!
Which book I would love?? :
Cookie, cookie, cookie! I love cookies.
Cookie book!
They both look wonderful, but I’d have to choose the cupcake book!
And oh, I do love snickerdoodles, I think trying the cupcakes will be mandatory this week! :)
martha stewart cookies cookbook! haha
If I can’t have both I suppose I’d settle for the cupcake book :)
I would love the cookie cookbook! Although those cupcakes you made sure are tempting… :D
CUPCAKES. 8D
oh my heck, we have to CHOOSE?! I think I’d have to go with the Cookie book since the holidays are coming up and we’ll be making cookie plates. But, they both look amazing!
If the giveaway is open to any one world wide i would love the cookie book. If not it doesn’t matter i still follow your blog.
Linda
what a difficult choice! ahhhh….
i’d say the cookie book cause i need a bit more help in that department. :-)
btw, I adore those little stands that you have! What are they? and where can I get some?
Oh my goodness. If those don’t look delicious, then I don’t know what does. Would love to have either of those cookbooks.
hii,
i loooove youre site, you allways make me wanna start baking immediatly!! I think its also because of the awsome pictures!! Keep up the good work!! ps i wouuuuuld LOVEone of those books!!xx charlotte
Definitely the cupcake book! I can never have enough cupcake recipes~
I already have the cookie book so I would like to win the cupcake book, it seems great !!
Ohh this is so hard….the cookie book. Only because I bake those more often.
Definitely the cookie book! They look yummy!!!!!
I think the cookie book would be my favourite. My goodness, it’s a hard decision though. They look sooooo gooood. I’m delighted that your tutorial shows both cookies AND cupcakes in one!
Cookies! Nothing beats a nice warm cookie from the oven
Oh my goodness! Your cupcakes look magnificent! I would want the cupcake book, because I know how good her cake recipes are. But to be honest, I’d probably <3 either!
I would LOVE the cookie book!!!
Cookies for sure! Although I have been told I make a sweet cake….I heart cookies….and chocolate is a must in them at all times! if only cookies & homemade ice cream could be a food group….i’d be a happy girl…..sigh…
i adore snickerdoodles- i’d never had them until i made them last week.
i’d like the cookie book pls as i have bought lots of cookie cutters recently for halloween but need some inspiration for the cookies themselves!
I make a killer snickerdoodle so this definitely intrigues me. While I’m generally a cookie girl I think I’d go for the cupcake cookbook.
I enjoy you blog very much. I have it linked on my blog.
Thank you for the contest opportunity.
jen~
I love your site! and all your cute ideas!!!! i am a fan of the Cupcake cake book!!!!
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Oooh, they both look so fun and pretty. The cupcake one looks mighty interesting, though.
Cupcakes, please! I have her cookie book and I must say, I love it to bits! I’m sure I’ll love the cupcake book just as much!
Oh, I would love to have the cookie book. I have some of her cookie cutters. I love the cupcake pedestal. I’m so glad you love chocolate. I agree about the 7 minute frosting…not sweet enough for me.
I’d LOVE the cupcake book. I’m always on the look out for new-awesomeness to make in single-servings!
Oooooh it’s a tough one…. but I’m going for the cookie book (as I already have way too many cupcake books!) :)
Unquestionably the cupcake book.. I want the Random picker to choose me, PLEASE!!!!!
HI!! I would love love love love LOVE the cupcake book! Oh my gosh I hope I get it!! Thank you!!!
these look awesome! :) i would love to win the cookie book!
I would love to win the cookie book. I already have the cupcake book and I had no idea that there was even a cookie book in existence!
Not an easy choice…..but I will go with the cookie book! I LOVE MS! I make “her” snickerdoodles all of the time…they are the best! Thanks for the chance to win, Bakerella :)
hm, this is a hard choice to make! i guess i’d take the cupcake book…? :) what a fun contest! the choices are def win-win…
I pick cupcakes because I already have the cookie book.
Hi! Could I have the cupcakes book please? :)
I already had the cookies book, I always wanted to try to make the snickerdoodle and ur post makes me want it more.. it doesn’t seems too tricky to make, right?
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Hard choice…but I would have to say the cupcake book
I would LOVE the cupcakes book!