Girl Scout Samoa Cookies Recipe

If You enjoy Girl Scout Samoa Cookies, You will LOVE making Them at Home with our Easy Recipe.

Samoas are my favorite Girl Scout Cookies. There is just something about the chew caramel and chocolate that I can't resist. I know that I am not alone in this. Here is a good and fairly easy to make copycat that uses store bought shortbread cookies.

Girl Scout Samoa Cookies Recipe

Photo by jensteele

           

Girl Scout Samoa Cookies Recipe



Girl Scout Samoa Cookies Recipe

If You enjoy Girl Scout Samoa Cookies, You will LOVE making Them at Home with our Easy Recipe.

Ingredients
  • 24 - 30 Shortbread Cookies
  • 6 tablespoons Butter
  • 1/2 cup granulated Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Light Corn Syrup
  • 1/2 cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 4 cups Toasted Coconut
  • 1 cup Chocolate Chips
Instructions
  1. Place each shortbread cookie in a cup of a greased muffin tin. Set aside briefly.
  2. Place 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat.
  3. Add butter, sugar and corn syrup. Heat to a full boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Boil 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
  4. Slowly pour in sweetened condensed milk, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low and continue cooking until candy thermometer reaches 220 - 228°F degrees.
  5. Remove from heat.
  6. Stir in vanilla. Beat until creamy.
  7. Immediately stir in toasted coconut and mix well.
  8. Spoon mixture by teaspoonfuls over shortbread cookies.
  9. Set aside to cool completely.
  10. Remove cooled cookies from muffin tin and place on waxed paper.
  11. Melt chocolate chips.
  12. Drizzle melted chocolate thinly in stripes over cookies. Set aside and let chocolate harden at room temperature.
  13. Store in a tightly sealed container, in the refrigerator or cupboard, until ready to enjoy.  
 
       

Photo of Samoas is by jensteele and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) License. Thank you, Jen. Great Picture. Photos may be "representative" of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes formally widely-circulated on the internet - courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.