Hello and welcome to the only recipe on the site that is not taste tested and approved by yours truly. We are on our penultimate recipe of my Girl Scout Cookie Cupcake series and have reached the dreaded Samoa Cupcakes week. Guys, I have a confession: I don’t like shredded coconut. I don’t like shredded coconut on things, so really I don’t like Samoa cookies. But you know what I LOVE? Complete sets of things. There’s no way I could do a Girl Scout Cookie Cupcake series and leave out one of the most iconic cookies of them all, so for my Samoa Cupcakes, I enlisted some trusted tasted testers and went to work. Samoas are a crunchy cookie base covered in chocolate, topped with shredded coconut and caramel, and then drizzled with more chocolate. So for these cupcakes, I returned to our pound cake cupcake base. That gets dipped in chocolate. Then we whip up some quick homemade caramel, toast some coconut, spread all that over the cupcakes and top it all a bit more chocolate. The end result is gorgeous, if I do say so myself. Visually, they are my favorite of all the cupcakes. They look just like giant versions of the cookies and are so cute.
How do they taste? Well, the components by themselves are all delicious. The pound cake and homemade caramel are two of my favorite things to come out of my kitchen. As a whole, according to the taste testers, they are…the best of all the cupcakes. That’s right, of out of all the cupcakes I slaved over, the ones people (well, the people who like coconut) liked best were these. So if you’re a coconut person, you’re probably going to love these Samoa Cupcakes. If you don’t like coconut, well, they are awfully fun to make and take pictures of. Plus you can eat spoonfuls of the leftover caramel sauce while you do so. 😉 You can find my Tagalong and Do-si-do Cupcakes in the archives, and come back next Friday to see our final cupcake. We’re down to the #1 best-selling Girl Scout cookie, and this cupcake is the one my fellow coconut non-fans liked best…
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Nutritional Information Caramel Adapted From: SmittenKitchen Chocolate Coating Adapted From: Martha Stewart Small-batch Instructions: This recipe halves cleanly. Depending on the type of bowl you have, you may need to make the entire amount of chocolate so it is deep enough for dipping.
