Description
Homemade Samoas cookies with buttery shortbread, chewy caramel, toasted coconut, and chocolate coating. Perfect for dessert trays, gifting, or holiday treats.
Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups shredded sweetened coconut, toasted
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon coconut oil or unsalted butter
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F and cream butter with sugar.
2. Mix in flour and salt to form dough.
3. Roll and cut into rounds, bake 10–12 minutes.
4. Cook condensed milk, brown sugar, and butter until thickened.
5. Stir in vanilla and fold in toasted coconut.
6. Spread caramel coconut mixture on cookies and chill.
7. Melt chocolate and dip or drizzle cookies.
8. Let chocolate set until firm.
Notes
Toast coconut for flavor.
Chill before chocolate coating for cleaner finish.
Drizzle white chocolate for decoration.
Store in airtight container up to 5 days or freeze up to 2 months.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 230
- Sugar: 15g
- Sodium: 60mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 26g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 20mg