My daughter has now been away at college for a month. In that time I've sent Grandma Neva chocolate chip cookies and carmel corn. This weekend I decided I need to make something new a special and searched the internet for the "best cookies." Of course people have a lot of different ideas, but one jumped out at me-- Samocolate cookies . Lipstick blogger was trying to create a cookie that included the key ingredients of a Girl Scout samoa cookie -- chocolate, caramel and coconut. My grandma Neva had said to include coconut in her cookies, but I'd never tried it, and I loved the idea of using carmels in a chocolate chip cookie so knew I had to give it a try.
I used lipstick blogger's idea of toasting coconut (I used sweetened, shredded coconut) then rolling a small piece of good quality carmel it. (I even bought my carmel from her Etsy website. It was good, but having it shipped on a hot day wasn't good. I found a box of melted gooey caramel in my mailbox) I put the coconut enrobed caramels in my grandmothers recipe and found a new creation. As you can see from the photo some of the caramels melted through, so I will make sure to use enough cookie dough to surround the carmel next time. The key was to have a full tablespoon of cookie dough placed on the greased cookie sheet, put the carmel in the center, then top with another tablespoon of dough. I used a pampered chef small scoop to measure the dough and when I used a full scoop, it was perfect.
Grandma would be proud. (and yes, Katie I shipped the cookies today.)
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