Homemade Samoas Cookies ~ Now you can enjoy one of the most popular Girl Scout cookies year around. Keep reading for the homemade Samoas cookie recipe. It’s a lot easier than you might think.
I have to admit I’m kind of excited about this recipe. They taste great and appearance wise they are pretty closeto looking like the real thing. Ahem, don’t go in for a close up, my chocolate dipping totally gives it away.
Samoas cookies are my favorite Girl Scout cookie and as a whole, they come in right behind the Thin Mints as the second best selling Girl Scout cookie. This surprised me since I would have bet money that Tagalongs were the second most popular (psst. . check next week’s post for homemade Tagalongs). Luckily I’m not a gambling woman.
But I am an obsessive baker. I have sweet treats in the fridge, half assembled desserts on the countertops and bake sheets full of multi-sized prep bowls full of ingredients for the next recipe. Seriously, I have a problem that I hope never goes away.
Although this past week was a little crazier than usual since I was testing more than a few recipes along with these Homemade Samoas Cookies. As many of you know my home is not filled with dessert partakers. Unless its peanut butter, salted caramel or coconut I’m guaranteed a session of forceful persuasion to get my boys to test anything I make.
Thankfully, Matt loves coconut and was happy to be my tester on this one and he gave it big thumbs up. After his thumbs up came a few more so I’m comfortable in saying “Whoo-hoo to finally nailing a homemade Samoas cookie recipe!”
A few notes:
The cookie portion of the Samoas is a basic shortbread andvery forgiving, so don’t worry-it’s not possible to overwork the dough when you are rolling it out.
Since the caramel coconut topping is sweet enough on its own, I lessened the sweetness of the short bread cookie portion.
Keep a watchful eye when toasting the coconut, as it goes from toasting to burnt quickly.
Keep a warm bowl of water and towel near when you are assembling the cookie. The caramel coconut topping is sticky and will require you to clean your spatula off after a few cookies.
For more Samoas recipes check out:
Samoas Cupcakes by Bakers Royale ~ Shameless self-promotion.
Samoas Truffles by Confessions of a Cookbook Queen ~ Truffle + Samoas = Happiness
Samoas on a Stick by Cookies and Cups~ Because everything on a stick is just plain better.
Preparation: Heat oven to 350 Degrees. Line bake sheet with parchment.
Ingredients:
1 lb sweetened coconut, toasted
½ cup of confectioner sugar
1 cup butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups of flour
1 11oz. bag of Kraft Caramels
Chocolate Pouring Sauce Click here for the recipe and double it.
Instructions:
Place coconut on bakesheet and bake at 350 degrees until golden brown, about 10-minutes. Make sure to stir the coconut half way through.
Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until light and creamy. Add vanilla and beat until combined. Add flour and beat until combined. Place dough in refrigerator and chill for 20 minutes.
Turn out dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out the dough to an 1/8 of an inch in thickness. Using a two inch round cookie cutter stamp out cookies and for the center use the wider end of a piping tip if you don’t have a small enough cookie cutter. Place stamped out cookies on parchment lined bakesheet and bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Place caramel squares in a medium size sauce pan over medium heat to melt. Once the caramel bits are completely melted reserve ½ a cup of mixture in a shallow bowl; set aside. Add the toasted coconut to the remaining caramel mixture. Fill a shallow pan with hot water and place saucepan filled with the finished caramel coconut in it to keep the mixtureat spreading consistency. Reheat mixture as needed to maintain spread consistency during assembly.
Assembly:
Dip tops of cookies into the reserved caramel bowl. This will help the sticky caramelcoconutmixture to quickly adhere to the cookie. Place cookie on a flat surface and using an icing spatula or butter knife spread caramel coconut mixture on to the cookie. If necessary, use a spoon to guide the caramel coconut spread off the icing spatula and on to the cookies. Let cookies rest for 30 minutes before dipping the bottoms in chocolate and drizzling the striping on top.
The goal of this taste test was to find something better or equal to the beloved Samoas that Girl Scouts sell. That meant finding a ring-shaped treat with a nice crisp cookie (typically shortbread), a generous amount of gooey caramel, flaked coconut and a touch of chocolate to round it all out.
However, this year the council has switched to ABC Smart Cookies. Little Brownie Bakers owns the trademarks for the names Samoas, Tagalongs, and Do-Si-Dos. Girls Scouts own the trademarks for Thin Mints, Trefoils, and Adventurefuls, which is why those names are the same.
Recreate your favorite Girl Scout cookie at home with this easy recipe. These homemade samoas are made with a shortbread cookie base, caramel coconut topping, and a chocolate drizzle.
The 2024 lineup includes classics such as Thin Mints®, Samoas®/Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®, Adventurefuls® and other fan favorites. “When people buy Girl Scout Cookies, they're buying so much more than cookies.
The good news is that all of your other favorite classic cookies are returning, from Samoas to S'mores to Tagalongs and Trefoils. And if you're still sad about the loss of the Raspberry Rally, fear not.
Girl Scout Cookies are made by one of two bakeries: ABC Bakers (which offers six vegan cookie options this year: Toast-Yay, Peanut Butter Patties, Thin Mints, Lemonades, Adventurefuls, and Caramel Chocolate Chip) and Little Brownie Bakers (which offers one vegan cookie option: Thin Mints).
Samoas are made by Little Brownie Bakers, while ABC Bakers produces Caramel deLites. Each cookie uses similar ingredients, but measurements vary. Those slight differences result in Caramel deLites having a higher cookie to caramel ratio.
Samoas — along with Trefoils, Thin Mints, and Do-Si-Dos — were introduced back in 1974 for Girl Scouts by Little Brownie Bakers, one of two U.S. bakeries with whom local councils have the option to work. The other bakery, ABC Bakers, produces a similar (but decidedly not the same) cookie called Caramel deLites.
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, which has troops in western Ohio and southeastern Indiana, changed bakers for the 2024 season. Each baker makes their own Girl Scout Cookies, which means iconic favorites may differ in flavor and name – and new, specialty cookies are now available.
Today, every Girl Scout cookie sold in America is produced by one of two big bakeries: Little Brownie Bakers (which is actually a subsidiary of Keebler), or ABC Smart Cookies.
Samoas: It's one of the classics on the menu and the unhealthiest. While it's lower in calories (75 per cookie) than the Rasberry Rally, Samoas have 6g of sugar per cookie.
Samoas: It's one of the classics on the menu and the unhealthiest. While it's lower in calories (75 per cookie) than the Rasberry Rally, Samoas have 6g of sugar per cookie.
It deftly balances coconut, chocolate and caramel with a soft cookie crust. Samoas are really the only Girl Scout cookies with a classically chewy texture, and they're also a bit sticky if you break them in half. The texture reminds me of a no-bake cookie.
Koko Samoa is hot chocolate in its purest form, made by drying Samoan Trinitario cacao seeds, then crushing them into a powder, then paste, and mixing with hot water.
All Girl Scout Cookie Program participants must abide by our council's established retail price of $5 for the core cookies (Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, Tagalongs, Thin Mints, Trefoils, Lemon-Ups and the NEW Adventurefuls) and $6/box for specialty cookies ( S'mores and Toffee-tastic).
Introduction: My name is Corie Satterfield, I am a fancy, perfect, spotless, quaint, fantastic, funny, lucky person who loves writing and wants to share my knowledge and understanding with you.
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