Faux Caramel Samoa Delites

I mentioned a while back that I had this crazy idea to try to create a homemade version of the Samoas cookies, aka Caramel Delites, a legal, addictive item that the Girl Scouts sell in an artificially limited way.

Any advice would be welcome.

The way I see it, I need to come up with a shortbread-like cookie, some caramel, and macaroon stuff.  The question will be one of assembly and timing.  Do I fully bake the shortbread, then drizzle on a layer of caramel, add uncooked macaroon, bake it again, and drizzle some chocolate stripes?  Or do I use raw dough as the base and bake it all once?  Or do I partially bake the base, then top and rebake it?

Well, this is what experimentation is for.  I have the ingedients on hand, which helps, and there was a macaroon recipe in the last CotR.  One of these days…

I have one off-limits box of Samoas for the sole purpose of comparison.  I’ll have to hurry up, before they go bad or we stop being able to resist.

Update:

Just went Googling, and looking at the picture and ingredients of the cookie on one of the manufacturer sites, their construction may be a little different than I had pictured, but shouldn’t be that hard.  Hmmm…

Update 2:

Here’s one copycat recipe.

1. I’d think you’d want a totally baked cookie and toasted macaroon bits—the way you’d use toasted cocoanut.  So you’d take the baked cookies and drizzle, sprinkle, and chocolatize

   Posted by Ith  on  02/16  at  08:41 PM

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