Samoas are a type of Girl Scout cookie, also known as Caramel deLites in some regions, featuring a crisp, buttery shortbread cookie base coated in caramel and toasted coconut, and finished with a chocolate drizzle.
INGREDIENTS
Cookie Dough Ingredients
- 1 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 2 cups of flour
- 1/4 tsp of baking powder
- 1/4 tsp of salt
- 2 Tbsp. of milk
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla
Caramel, Coconut and Chocolate
- 2 cups of soft caramel
- 1/4 tsp of salt
- 3 Tbsp. of heavy cream
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla
- 3 cups of toasted coconut
- melted chocolate (approximately 1 cup)
DIRECTIONS
- Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar. Make sure it’s well incorporate, it will have a crumbly texture. Add the milk and vanilla. Bring together and refrigerate for 30 min.
- Roll out cookie dough and cut out your cookies. Place on a parchment paper and bake for 10-13 minutes at 350°F/177°C. Set aside to cool down.
- Melt the caramel with salt, heavy cream and vanilla in the microwave (2 min). Add the melted caramel to the the toasted coconut. Make sure to save about 1/4 cup of the melted caramel. The reserved caramel will be used to ‘glue’ the caramel coconut mix to the cookie.
- Once the cookie is cool enough to touch, add some of the reserved caramel to the top, then add a layer of caramel coconut. Dip in melted chocolate and drizzle chocolate over the top. Once the chocolate has set, enjoy!
