Homemade Vegan Samoas

Copycat girl scout cookies but healthier! This vegan samoas recipe has a grain-free shortbread, caramel coconut layer, and dark chocolate drizzle!

I don’t know if the smell and taste of toasted coconut and the magic of watching it turn from snowy white to toasty gold brings you as much joy as it does me…but if not we have caramel and chocolate happening here too to guarantee JOY will be brought to all by these marvelous little cookies.

Homemade Vegan Grain-Free Samoas

You know samoas. You (hopefully) love samoas. But you may not know this side of them yet. This DIY side with a crispy homemade grain-free shortbread cookie and a sticky sweet 3-ingredient dairy-free caramel and as many chocolate drizzles as your heart desires. There are many perks to making your own (hello healthier ingredients!) but overdoing the chocolate drizzles is definitely my favorite perk.

Ingredients In This Samoas Recipe

Don’t let the whole three different layers part scare you away, this is still a pretty simple recipe. The most time consuming part is shaping them into rings, but luckily shape doesn’t affect flavor so baking as bars is a lazy but just as delicious option.

Shortbread Cookie

This is my go-to vegan paleo shortbread cookie, its snappy and subtly sweet and buttery and EASY too. You will need…

• Almond flour
• Coconut flour
• Maple syrup (or honey or agave)
• Coconut oil (or coconut butter if you want to make them oil-free, but you may need slightly more of it)
• Pinch of salt

Caramel Coconut Layer

Okay we are semi cheating here, but it’s such an easy trick I had to do it. Instead of mixing up our own dairy-free caramel we are using a can of sweetened condensed coconut milk simmered down until thick and caramelized then spiked with vanilla and a pinch of salt. It’s sticky, its sweet, it glues together the coconut perfectly.

If you wanted to use a more homemade caramel, you could try THIS no-cook caramel instead. I do not recommend date caramel here, it won’t set into a solid samoa unfortunately.

Dark Chocolate Drizzles

Are just that, dark chocolate melted and well…drizzled. This is my favorite dark chocolate for thin delicate drizzling. I recommend dipping the bottoms of the cookies first, letting that harden on a piece of wax paper, then drizzling the tops.

More Copycat Girl Scout Cookie Recipes You’ll Love

• SunButter Tagalongs
• Vegan Paleo Samoa Cookie Bars
• Vegan Thin Mints

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