Copycat Girl Scouts Samoa Cookies Recipe
Do you stock-up on Girl Scouts Cookies like my home each Spring? Are the Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Samoas not the best? Check out this easy and yummy Samoa Cookie. It will melt in your mouth, and best of all you can make it year around – no more waiting for that girl scout to come to your door! Don’t forget to check out our other cookie recipe – Copycat Girl Scouts Tagalongs and Copycat Girl Scouts Thin Mints.
Be careful not to eat all the coconut mix before you place it on the cookie! I couldn’t resist!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup softened Butter
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 2 cup Flour
- 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 3 cup Flaked Coconut
- 11 oz Caramels
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 8 oz Semisweet Chocolate Chips
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream together butter, vanilla and sugar.
- Slowly add in flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add just enough milk until the dough comes together into a ball.
- Add in a bit of extra flour if your dough is very sticky.
- Roll out dough to 1/4″ thick.
- Cut out about 2″ cookies and place on a prepared sheet.
- Cut out about smaller hole in each cookie and return to dough.
- Reroll dough and continue cutting cookies.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes or until bottoms are light brown.
- Allow to cool on sheet for 5 minutes before transfering to a cooling rack.
- Preheat oven to 300.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Spread coconut on prepared baking sheet.
- Bake 20 minutes, mixing every 5 minutes, until golden.
- Cool on baking sheet.
- Hold back 8 caramels.
- Unwrap caramels and place in a large bowl with milk.
- Microwave 60 seconds then stir, repeating until melted and smooth.
- Fold in cooled coconut.
- Spread topping on cooled cookies.
- If topping gets to firm in bowl, microwave 30 seconds.
- If topping is not adhering to cookie, unwrap and melt remaining caramels with 2 teaspoons of milk.
- Drizzle top of each cookie with plain caramel prior to placing topping.
- Melt chocolate by microwaving 45 seconds then stirring, and repeating until melted and smooth.
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Dip the bottom of each cookie into chocolate and place on prepared sheet.
- Transfer remaining chocolate into the corner of a zippered bag.
- Clip off corner and drizzle finished cookies with chocolate.
- Refrigerate 15 minutes to set.
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Last Updated on January 27, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living
Love Keil (MunchkinTime) says
Looks so scrumptious!
Brittany says
Samoa cookies HAS to be my favorite girl scout cookie! I CAN NOT wait to try this recipe, soon! I have made a samoa bundt cake before that my husband fell in love with, I am sure these will be a new love for the both of us!
I found you over at Inspiration Monday link party and I am super excited to learn more from you! At Pennies into Pearls I am all about saving money so Frugal Coupon Living is right up my alley. Thanks for this recipe!
Becca @ The Earthlings Handbook says
Another advantage to this recipe is that it is healthier! Of course cookies are not the healthiest food, but Girl Scout Cookies and other packaged cookies that stay edible for a year+ are loaded with preservatives and “dough conditioners” that aren’t so good for you.
Did you know that when you pay $3.50-$4.00 for a box of Girl Scout Cookies, the troop selling them gets only 60c-85c?! (The exact amount depends on the local council.) It’s not really that great a fundraiser. A wiser use of your money is to make your own cookies and give each Girl Scout who tries to sell to you a cash (or check) donation to her troop–then they get the full amount of your donation.
Elaine says
Yummy!! I love girl scout cookies…now I can get them all year!! I would love for you to stop by again and share your stuff at my Link Party…it’s still open!! http://www.cookinandcraftin.com/my-2-favorite-things-on-thursday-link-party-4/
Christine Trevino says
These look AMAZING – and my favorite cookies! Thank you for sharing!
Karly says
I need about 17 of these! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Miz Helen says
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday, Hope you have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen