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Who here loves Girl Scout cookies? If you’re a Girl Scout cookie fanatic, you’ll love these homemade Samoas cookies! They’re gluten free, dairy free, and refined sugar free, and can even be made paleo and grain free! They’re super simple to make and require only 6 ingredients.
What ingredients do I need for these homemade Samoas cookies?
If you want to make these homemade Samoas cookies, here’s what you’ll need:
- almond flour (or oat flour, see below)
- pure maple syrup (or honey)
- shredded coconut
- tahini (or other nut/seed butter)
- dark chocolate (I use dairy free)
- coconut oil (or other neutral oil/dairy free butter)
- sea salt
Help, I don’t have almond flour!
If you don’t have almond flour or you don’t want to use it in this recipe, feel free to use oat flour instead. I prefer almond flour since the cookies can be a bit crunchy with oat flour. If you do want to use oat flour instead of almond flour, add 2 TBS melted coconut oil (or other neutral oil/dairy free butter) to the dough. This will help it to not be as hard!
What if I don’t have tahini?
If you don’t have tahini or don’t want to use it in this recipe, you can substitute it with another nut or seed butter. I personally prefer tahini but peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, or sunflower seed butter would probably all also work!
What chocolate chips do you use?
I like to use either Hu Kitchen vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips or Enjoy Life Foods vegan dark chocolate chips. Enjoy Life Foods has both dark and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Hu Kitchen’s semi-sweet chocolate chips are refined sugar free and sweetened only with dates. If you want to use Hu Kitchen vegan chocolate chips, use my code thebigleybasics for 15% off.
How do I store these homemade Samoas cookies?
I like to store these cookies in an airtight container for 4-5 days. I personally keep them in the fridge or freezer.
Want more cookies?
I mean, who doesn’t want more cookies? Check out some of my other cookie recipes!
- 6 Ingredient Flourless Brownie Cookies
- Single Serve Pumpkin Cookie
- 7 Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Grain Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ready to make these cookies? The full recipe is below!
Homemade Samoas Cookies
Ingredients
For the Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (or honey)
- 1/4 tsp salt
For the Caramel
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp tahini
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (or honey)
- 3/4 cup shredded coconut
- 1/4 tsp salt
For the Topping
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips (I use dairy free)
- 1 tsp coconut oil (optional, but recommended)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a large baking tray with parchment paper. While the oven preheats, mix together the cookie ingredients in a small dish. If the dough is too sticky, add more flour. If the dough is too dry, add more sweetener.
- Once the dough is mixed, divide it into 12 evenly sized balls. Place each ball on the lined baking tray. Flatten each ball using your fingers or the palms of your hand. Then create a hole in the center of each cookie using your fingers or a butter knife.
- Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes, until lightly browned. Don't overbake! Once the cookies are done baking, remove them from the oven and let them cool completely.
- While the cookies are cooling, toast the shredded coconut: add the shredded coconut to a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 5 minutes, until the coconut is lightly toasted and golden brown.
- Next, prepare the caramel: combine the tahini, maple syrup, and salt together and heat in the microwave (in a glass bowl )or on the stovetop (in small saucepan) until the mixture begins to bubble. Remove from the heat once bubbly and stir in the toasted coconut.
- Once the cookie are cooled, spread the caramel over the top of each cookie. Next, melt together the chocolate and the coconut oil, stirring often so the chocolate doesn't burn (melt either in the microwave or on the stovetop). The coconut oil is optional, but it helps to thin the chocolate a bit.
- Once the chocolate is melted, dip the bottom of each cookie in the melted chocolate. Place cookies on a tray lined with parchment paper. Drizzle any remaining chocolate melted chocolate over the top of the cookies!
- Place cookies in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes, until the chocolate is hardened. Enjoy straight from the fridge!