Homemade Samoas Bars

No ask to hold off for "the box" at "cookie time" brand your ain homemade Samoas Bars and savor cracking Samoas sense of savour any time!  And believe me, making iconic Samoas cookies inwards bar shape is way easier than making the homemade cookies themselves. {Yes, I tried both.}
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I am hard-pressed to uncovering someone who doesn't similar the iconic Samoas Girl Scout cookie.  They're pretty much upwards at that topographic point inwards Girl Scout notoriety alongside the Thin Mint, am I right?  But what's a Samoas-lover to do inwards the off season?  

Well, alongside this homemade Samoas Bars recipe, there's no ask to hold off until "cookie time" to savor their wonderful flavor.  You tin whip upwards a batch whatever time!

As a full-time nutrient blogger {and Mom, that is}, I larn to do some crazy-fun things for my job.  {Like the fourth dimension I went to Sister Schubert's house inwards Alabama to create together with savor Thanksgiving dinner alongside her, for example.  Oh, that was indeed crazy-fun.}  One of my latest assignments for the Food.com site was to photograph the procedure together with write a how-to article for making homemade Samoas cookies.

Check out these niggling beauties ... they came out gorgeous, don't you lot think?

While they are indeed beautiful, these niggling suckers were a total pain-in-the-you-know-what to make.  And piece they are aMAZingly delicious, I knew at that topographic point was no way on God's greenish basis I would always undertake the procedure of making them again.  Way also many steps together with also much ho-hum materials for my liking ... rolling, cutting, chilling, spreading, dipping ...

I figured at that topographic point had to live an easier way to savor their deliciousness.  

And I figured if I was looking for an easier way, together with hence many of you lot mightiness be, too.

So I laid close seeing if a no rolling & cutting involved, no dipping, less-fuss bar version would function together with sense of savour exactly every bit good.

I'm happy to study alongside a real resounding "yes," that YES, a less-fuss bar version does indeed work!  With the same yummy delicious taste.

And believe me, the bar shape is way easier than making the homemade cookie version themselves.

Instead of rolling together with cutting dough into fussy niggling donut shapes, I merely pressed that same shortbread dough into a 9x13-inch baking dish to shape a shortbread crust layer.  I together with hence topped the baked crust alongside the same coconut-caramel topping used inwards making the cookie version, spreading it on the bar crust inwards i shot instead of tediously smearing it on each cookie individually.

Finally, I gave the overstep of the bars a practiced drizzle alongside melted chocolate ... no dipping involved.  Which did the fox inwards giving the same cracking sense of savour every bit the cookie version, despite the fact the bars' bottoms aren't dipped inwards chocolate similar alongside the cookies.

But if you're a Samoas cookie purist together with experience the bars' bottoms should live chocolate-dipped, past times all agency merely melt some extra chocolate together with dip the bottom of each cutting bar inwards chocolate.  As for me, I'm exactly fine skipping that step!

So if you lot desire to savor the cracking sense of savour of Samoas cookies inwards a homemade version, but don't desire to pass the fourth dimension inwards the kitchen making the exact look-alike, this homemade Samoas Bars recipe is for you.  

All the yumminess of the iconic cookie alongside the convenience of an easier-to-make, real tardily to cutting together with serve {even-easier-to-gobble-down} bar version.  A perfect selection for the cookie "off season", if you lot inquire me.

Thank you lot for stopping past times .  We'd dearest to cause got you lot dorsum soon!

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Author: Tracey |

Homemade Samoas Bars

No ask to hold off for "the box" at "cookie time" brand your ain homemade Samoas Bars together with savor cracking Samoas sense of savour whatever time! And believe me, making iconic Samoas cookies inwards bar shape is way easier than making the homemade cookies themselves. {Yes, I tried both.}

prep time: 25 Mcook time: 45 Mtotal time: lxx M

ingredients:

Crust:

• 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 T. milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Coconut-Caramel Topping:

• 1 (11 oz.) handbag soft caramels {about xl caramels, I job Kraft caramels}
• 1/3 c. milk
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 2 c. shredded sweetened coconut

Chocolate Drizzle:

• 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 tsp. canola oil

instructions:

How to create Homemade Samoas Bars

Crust:

1. Place butter inwards a mixing bowl. With an electrical mixer, vanquish butter at medium-high speed close thirty seconds until fluffy. Add saccharide together with vanilla extract. Beat until low-cal together with fluffy, close 1 to two minutes.
2. In a dissever bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, together with salt. Gradually add together to the butter mixture, mixing afterward each add-on until exactly combined. Add milk, mixing until the dough comes together inwards large pieces.
3. Line a 9x13-inch baking dish alongside aluminum foil, letting the foil slightly overhang the edges of the pan {this measuring is optional, but makes it actually tardily to larn the bars out of the pan afterward baking}. Lightly spray foil {or pan if non using foil} alongside nonstick cooking spray. Use your fingers to pat dough evenly into the bottom of the pan.
4. Bake at 350℉ for thirty minutes. Set aside.

Toasted Coconut:

1. Line a baking canvass alongside parchment newspaper or aluminum foil. 
2. Spread kokosnoot evenly onto the baking sheet.
3. Bake at 350℉ for 12-18 minutes, stirring frequently, until lightly browned together with toasted on the edges. Keep a unopen spotter on the coconut, every bit it tin become from okay to burned real quickly. Set aside.

Coconut-Caramel Topping:

1. Place unwrapped caramels together with milk inwards the overstep of a double boiler. {If you lot don't cause got a double boiler, job a metallic bowl or a smaller saucepan laid over a larger pot.} 
2. Heat over simmering water, stirring frequently, until caramels are fully melted. 
3. Stir inwards common salt together with toasted coconut.

Chocolate Drizzle:

1. Place chocolate chips together with canola crude inwards a pocket-size microwaveable bowl. Melt the chocolate chips past times heating for close 45 seconds inwards the microwave; stir until smooth. If chocolate is non fully melted, rut for an additional 10 seconds together with stir again. {Or, melt inwards a pocket-size saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring frequently.}
2. Use a spoon to drizzle melted chocolate over the coconut-caramel topping. Allow chocolate to laid completely earlier cutting. {Refrigerate for close xv minutes to speed upwards the process, if you'd like.}
3. When laid upwards to cut, take away bars from the pan past times lifting upwards on the overhanging foil edges. Place on a cutting board together with cutting into pocket-size squares alongside a sudden knife. 
4. Store bars at room temperature.

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