This month Katie of Katiecakes chose snickerdoodle cupcakes as our selection for the Martha Stewart Cupcakes Club. I like snickerdoodle cookies a lot – what’s not to like about cinnamon and sugar, right? – but I rarely make them, so I was excited about this pick. Even better, Kayte, Margaret and I had the opportunity to bake our cupcakes together via Twitter, which always makes things more fun!
Like most of the recipes in Martha’s Cupcakes book, this one yielded way more cupcakes than I needed (28), so I scaled back to make just 1/4. The cupcake recipe is essentially a basic yellow cake with the addition of a healthy dose of cinnamon. I overfilled the tins (a nasty habit of mine, one I’m trying to break) so the edges of my cupcakes were a bit browner than I’d have liked, but otherwise they baked up perfectly. I’d sampled the batter, and while it was a yummy yellow cake batter, I didn’t think it tasted like a snickerdoodle. After baking, however, the cinnamon flavor intensified and the cupcakes tasted just like the cookies they were based on.
Martha suggests a simple seven-minute frosting to top the cupcakes so that’s what I went with. Seven-minute frosting is made by boiling sugar and water until the resulting syrup reaches 230 F then adding it to a mixer containing egg whites that have been beaten to soft peaks with a bit of sugar. The last step is just to beat the frosting until it has cooled down and stiff peaks have formed, which in theory takes seven minutes, hence the name. I’ve never timed it to see whether the name is accurate, but regardless it’s one of my favorite frostings because it’s so simple and quite delicious – the taste reminds me of marshmallows. The recipe called for piping caps of frosting on each cupcake, and though I tried several times, I couldn’t achieve the look so I went with my standby, the 1M tip and piped a swirl. A dusting of cinnamon-sugar is the finishing touch on these fun cupcakes. They’re a great fall treat!
Many thanks to Katie for hosting this week. You can find the recipe for the snickerdoodle cupcakes here.
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Your cupcakes looks awesome! I made these yesterday and thought the 7 minute frosting was perfect on them.
Those look fantastic. I’ve been a major MSCC slacker the last few months, so I was excited to see how these turned out for everyone. Beautiful piping!
honestly my cupcakes never seen like this, they look great:)
These look so delicious!
Yours are so beautiful and I like the Halloween wrappers. I can never get the 7 minute frosting to work. Any tips?
They look heavenly Tracey! I just wanna lick that frosting off the screen!
They are just beautiful
GREAT cupcakes and your piping is wonderful!
Those look amazing! Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies and I love how light and fluffy the frosting looks! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Well, look at these, all dressed up in their little Halloween outfits with their cute hats…very nice. It was fun baking with you…I get more done faster when I bake with all of you…and it is tons more fun!
WOW! Your looks fantastic as well! It looks like the frosting is going to be my face! YUM!
So gorgeous! Love the way you frost them.
Your cupcakes look beautiful! I used the same cupcake liners. They’re so cute.
I love snickerdoodles! The idea of eating them in the form of a cupcake sounds fabulous.
I have heard nothing but rave reviews for these cupcakes. I love that you always let us know how you cut recipes down, since I would be doing that myself. Good to know they still work.
The cupcakes look so good! I love both snickerdoodles and marshmallows, so these sound fabulous.
These cupcakes look awesome. I have the book, have had my eye on these, now that I’ve seen them here, I’m sure!!
Wow.. Those cupcakes look amazing! The frosting looks so fluffy and wonderful.
5 stars!!! This is really gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe! I think the cinnamon made it all perfect! i love cinnamon! marshmallows is also a great addition! Kids will love this!
I love eating chocolates and cupcakes and all of your cupcakes look so delicious. I will suggest this to my mom for us to know how taste is so good.