There have been times I've gone with my troop to an official Girl Scouts event and been surrounded by a sea of second graders. Nope! Though I see where people get this idea. Things Ive heard as a teenage Girl Scout As I get older, the questions and comments get a bit harder than when I was a little kid selling Thin Mints. As much as I love what I do, circumstances like this make my job difficult.Ī high percentage of Alaska's 6,000ish Girl Scouts are under 13, but not me. Put the fake ones in a Samoa box and I don't know if I could tell the difference. What was worse, they appeared and tasted the exact same as the real deal. My friend and I walk over to Carrs Aurora Village to get some snacks. Pulling on the foil edges, lift out the uncut block, and cut into bars.It's lunchtime at West Anchorage High School. Cover and put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour until it sets.Then stir and microwave for another 10-15 seconds until melted and smooth. Microwave remaining chocolate chips in a small bowl for 20 seconds.Carefully spread coconut mixture over the chocolate layer.Then spread the chocolate over the crust. Remove the crust from the oven and immediately sprinkle 1 ½ cups of the chocolate chips over the hot crust let stand 5 minutes.While the crust is baking, place the coconut in a large bowl, pour in the caramel sauce and stir to combine.Press the dough into the bottom of the prepared pan, and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light brown.Beat in flour mixture (mixture will be crumbly).Add both sugars and beat on medium to high until light and fluffy.Beat butter with a mixer on medium for 30 seconds in a large bowl. ![]() For the crust, in a small bowl, stir together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt.Line a 13x9-inch baking pan with foil, extending foil over edges. Now you’ve got a whole batch of homemade grated coconut for all your baking projects, including the coconut caramel bars we’re baking today. ![]() Spread the coconut in a baking tray and bake at your oven’s lowest setting for an hour or so until dry. Scoop out the coconut meat and spin it in your food processor until finely grated. Carefully remove the coconut and cover it with a kitchen towel you’re not very fond of and tap it with a hammer until it cracks open. Then you bake the coconut at 400 degrees for around 20 minutes until it starts to crack. It’s yummy.īy the way, did I mention I LOVE coconut? By the way, did I mention that I LOVE coconut?įirst you drain the super healthy coconut water by piercing one of the coconut’s ‘eyes’ with a screwdriver. Keep that coconut water for later, or drink it right away. Then it’s time to crack open these bad boys. That’s tons of fun already because, to be honest, nobody does that anymore. So I decided to let you in on how you do it. ![]() You can buy pre-grated coconut flakes from the supermarket, which is what we did for this somoas cookie recipe, but back in the Dominican Republic we make our own fresh from the whole coconut. Samoas Cookie Bars with Homemade Grated Coconutīesides caramel sauce, there’s another essential ingredient in today’s samoas cookie bar recipe, and I’d like to dig deep into it grated coconut. Your friends might get a flashback to the last time they bought some Caramel DeLites from the Girl Scouts and remember the good times right there in your kitchen. If you make them for a get-together, tempt your guests by making them close their eyes before taking a bite, and see if they remind them of something. They’re that good! But, they are also too good not to share. These coconut bars are difficult to keep around we started eating them before they were even cool. These coconut caramel bars are fabulous cookies to make any time of the year, but these Caramel DeLites bars are great holiday cookies too including for birthdays, picnics, general family gatherings, and later this year they’ll be the staple Christmas cookies in our home. The idea here is creating easy-to-make and easy to carry treats, and making bars instead of shaping each cookie seemed like a good idea, and it was. Inspired by the samoas cookies, which are also called Caramel deLites, we came up with the caramel coconut bars we’re making today. Inspired by the Girl Scout Cookie Everyone LovesĪs Geoffrey told me about each and every Girl Scout cookie he loves, the idea of making caramel coconut bars came to us. I knew nothing about them except that I need to pull him away from the little table they set up in the supermarket, and make sure he doesn’t have any cash in his pocket – or he’ll buy them out. A few weeks ago, I talked with Geoffrey over dinner about some new recipe ideas for the blog, and one thing he kept going back to is the Girl Scout cookies he loves so much. This Samoas Cookie Caramel Coconut Bars recipe post may contain affiliate links.
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