Craving Cookies?
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Friday, February 11, 2011 10:58 PM
As previous discussions on this site have proven, Girl Scout cookies are a controversial issue.
But I think there are a couple things we can all agree on: Girl Scout cookies, however delicious, are pretty expensive on a per-cookie basis. They’re also not available year-round.
A couple years ago, poking around food blogs on the Internet (as you do) I discovered a wonderful solution to this problem: you can make your own!
I have since become a devotee of Samoa Bars, and I have to say - I actually prefer them, by far, to the Samoas that come in a box. So delicious! And you can make them, in your own kitchen, whenever you wish.
(Oh, a note on that - the recipe calls for melting store-bought caramels, but one time my sister made a batch of caramel that turned out too sticky, so we used it in cookies instead. The cookies were even more delicious than usual. So if you like to make candy and know how to make caramel, you can kick the homemade Samoas up an extra notch!)
This particular food blog, Baking Bites, has recipes for Samoa Bars and regular Samoas (identical to the bars, except with rolling and cutting), Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, and an apparently discontinued cookie called a Lemon Cooler.
Get to baking! We have almost a full month before Lent starts, so now is the time to indulge!
Note: As I was writing this post, I remembered/discovered that I already wrote it, almost two years ago. Oops! I hope the information is new to some of you!
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