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If you have been alive the last month and a half then you know it’s Girl Scout cookie time! My daughter is a Brownie this year and her first cookie booth was last week. She was so excited! I usually buy way to many cookies but they freeze well, right. At least, I tell myself I will freeze them, but I usually just put them in the cabinet and we eat them in about a month.
One of family’s favorite cookies are the Samoa’s! They are chocolate caramel coconut bite of heaven in a cookie. Luckily, not too many cookies come in one box because we will eat the whole box in one sitting. So what did I do? I created a whole cupcake with the flavors of this two bite wonder! Oh it is delicious! The kids were telling everyone about the new cupcake mommy made…seriously, I think my daughter told her teacher at school about it and to watch for the recipe. What a sweetie!
The frosting to this cupcake is to-die-for. I joked that I would put it in the bath tub and bathe in it….yes it was that good. Hmmmm….maybe I shouldn’t be telling you that. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
This is not my first attempt at recreating a Girl Scout cookie into a cupcake. Have you tried my Thin Mint Cupcake? It is super easy. The Samoa Cupcake is a bit more involved, but totally worth it!!!! I suppose you could use a boxed cake mix, but why would you want to do that…cake from scratch is so easy and tastes so much better!
What is your favorite Girl Scout cookie?
Samoa Cupcakes
Samoa cupcakes have the same flavors as the classic Girl Scout cookies!
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tsps baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsps baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 1 tsp coconut extract
- 1 cup hot coffee
Filling:
- 1/2 cup chocolate syrup
- 1/3 cup sweetened shredded coconut
Caramel Frosting:
- 16 tbsp (8 oz) butter
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 24 cupcake tins with liners and lightly spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and extracts. Beat on medium speed (using a stand or handheld mixer) 2 minutes. Stir in hot coffee (the batter will be thin). Pour the batter into prepared pans.
- Bake 22 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove cupcakes from pans onto wire racks. Cool completely before frosting.
Filling:
- Combine chocolate syrup and coconut in a small bowl.
- When cupcakes are cooled,scoop out the center of each cupcake with a melon baller or the big end of a large frosting tip. Saving the removed portions. Use a small spoon to fill the holes with the chocolate coconut mixture. Replace tops.
Caramel Frosting:
- Melt the butter in a heavy 2-quart saucepan.
- Stir in brown sugar and heat the mixture to boiling, stirring constantly. Cook over low heat for 2 minutes or until the sugar is dissolved. Add the milk and return to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Remove the pan from heat and cool to lukewarm (~30-40 minutes) stirring occasionally. Stir in the vanilla extract and then gradually stir in the powdered sugar. Adjust consistency using more milk or powdered sugar, if necessary. Use while frosting is still a little warm, it will start to harden as it cools.
- To toast the coconut, spread the coconut onto a rimmed baking sheet.
- Toast in a 350°F oven, stirring frequently, until the coconut is an even brown color, about 10 minutes.
- When the cupcakes are completely cool, frost them then drizzle with melted chocolate chips or chocolate syrup. Sprinkle with toasted coconut.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 342Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 245mgCarbohydrates: 67gFiber: 1gSugar: 55gProtein: 3g
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Thanks for the heads up. I’m not seeing anything..do you have a link? I’d love to research this.
i am so very excited to make these ! i am a samoa fanatic, the word diet does not exist when it comes to those cookies. I usually never eat any cupcake i make entirely, but i feel it would be love at first bite & i will devour them all. thank you for the recipe!
Be careful Jocelyn! You’ve been warned…these were so good my hubbyman bought me a diamond ring. 🙂
I made these today for my husband’s birthday. Labor intensive, but he loved them! In the recipe, you say to use the frosting while it is still warm. How did you get yours stiff enough to pipe a swirly on the cupcake in the picture? Also, my frosting was darker than the picture; more of a true caramel color. I added about 4-1/2 c powdered sugar and didn’t want to add any more, for fear of it being too sugary.
I normally use organic chocolate syrup but I had to use Hershey’s. I am not a fan. Would try again with my organic choc syrup or make a milk chocolate ganache to combine with the coconut in the filling. Overall, an awesome cupcake! Thank you for the recipe.
Yum! Made these today. They are fabulous. I also used the frosting on a vanilla cupcake filled with salted carmel sauce. Makes a perfect vanilla salted carmel cupcake.
Holy Cow!!! That sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing the good news about the salted caramel cupcake.
I just pinned these. My favorite Girl Scout cookies are Samoas so I have got to try these. Thanks for sharing, they sound delicious
Samoa cookies are totally my favorite, how did you know?! However, I think your cupcakes must have gotten lost in the mail because I didn’t seem to have received any to taste test, hmmm…. They look so yummy, thank you for sharing the recipe!
Oooooh yum! I’m not a huge fan of the Samoa cookies but this recipe sounds fantastic. 🙂
Looks divine! (I’m printing the recipe right now!) Around here they call them Caramel Delights and they are my favorite!! (Btw; I love your sunflower in your title!)
These look delicious. I am definitely going to make them, thanks for sharing.
We’re not big coconut fans over here, but these do look heavenly!
These look delicious!!
These are pinned on my Pinterest! LOVE these.
Wow! These look amazing! Thanks for linking up for Friday Favorites. I’m featuring you this week. Come by and grab my featured button if you’d like one!
omg these food posts are going to be the end of me! Definitely have some baking to do this weekend!!! YUM
Very creative and looks delicious. Thanks for sharing.
That looks delicious, not sure mine would come out as good, even if I followed the recipe, but I think I may just give it a shot.
You had me at “2 sticks butter”. YUM!
Samoa’s are my favorite! These look lovely.
Such beautiful cupcakes! Yum!
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Those look delish! Thanks for sharing!
I literally ate about five Somoas yesterday. It’s been years since I had some, but a friend had cookies at her house and I couldn’t help myself. Your recipe sounds delicious.
-Melanie from Melanie’s Musings
I’m not a fan of Samoas, but I’m going to have to check out the Thin Mint Cupcakes – my weakness!
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Have a great day!
Scrumptious! This really looks good. I’ll try doing this with my daughter just for a little bonding.
I live in Australia, and until this week had never heard of Samoa cupcakes! I’ve seen them around blog land this week, and they sure do look yummy!
OH.MY.GOD. these sound too good to be true! You’re baking sounds heavenly. Will be back to try some of your recipes!!
OMG Bookmarked!!!!!
These look absolutely delicious! If you love chocolate and would be interested in learning more about Fair Trade chocolate, just do a quick search online. Did you know that nearly all the chocolate that we buy in America is harvested by child laborers or slaves on the Ivory Coast of Africa? It’s appalling what goes on there so that we can buy cheap chocolate from Hershey, Nestle, etc.
Thanks for sharing the recipe for these awesome cupcakes!
All I can say is THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! You have turned my all time favorite cookie into a heavenly looking cupcake. I haven’t been this happy since they came out with the limited edition Girl Scout ice cream.
They look absolutely delicious!
Wonderful!! I had never thought to make them into cupcakes. Thanks for a new recipe to try. I’ve been going through ones I had previously saved … it is shameful how many of them are desserts. Still, this one will definantly have to make the list.
I am not ashamed to say I’ve eaten an entire box of Samoas before, and I’ve been frustrated waiting for Girl Scout cookie season 🙂 These cupcakes look yummy! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Drool….I love Samoas..I am so going to try these!
I’m getting ready to do my own version of these and I loved reading about yours!
I am drooling right now. Seriously.
Viva
Oh yumminess! That looks like it would take an hour of running to burn off but be worth every step! Would I be able to substitute olive oil for the vegetable oil? Or would butter work better?
I’ve never really had a favorite Girl Scout cookie, but the Samoa would probably be my favorite. Your cupcakes are gorgeous! How do you make the swirled frosting? What exactly do you use, some kind of piping tool?
I haven’t made or eaten cupcakes for ages. Thanks for reminding me. So easy and delicious.
To tell you the truth. The cupcakes look good but I can’t support the Girl Scouts. Thank you for the posting though.
this is why I gladly buy cupcakes …omg these look fab!
These look absolutely amazing! I love girl scout cookie time and now I can have my favorites in a cupcake year round! I will have to check out the thin mint cupcakes. Thin mints are my weakness! 🙂
This looks absolutely wonderful! Yummy!
I love the Samoa cookies. These cupcakes look absolutely wonderful.
WOW, and I just had to read this while I”m on a diet! AH!! I LOVE Samoa cookies, and these cupcakes are so tantalizing! I am pinning this to make as soon as I can have sugar again! WOW, those look absolutely amazing!
Those look absolutely wonderful! I’ve never tasted a Samoa – I don’t think they have them in Canada – but wow, do I ever want one now! Thank you for sharing this yummy recipe.
If only I liked coconut. 😉
Still, I have tons of readers who love coconut and would love for you to join our Weekend Potluck linky each Friday. You post on one blog and it shows on FOUR. We do our best to make sure you get traffic back from us too by tweeting, pinning and tagging on Facebook. Would love to have you. 🙂
Oh my. All the great recipes are making me SO hungry! I’ve bookmarked this page so I can make this later with my kids.
You are very talented! Thanks for sharing 🙂
These look SO YUMMY! If I was addicted to baking, I’d seriously be fat. So I’ll just look on in awe and recommend you sell these!
i am going to make these for my husband’s birthday- he LOVES samoas!!
Thats a really good idea to make a cupcake out of a cookie! Because I find that cakes are more filling that biscuits so you’d only need one compared to quite a few biscuits!
That frosting does sound amazing! And Samoas are my favorite girl scout cookie. YUM!
Those look so good! We no longer have a GS cookie connection—I may have to try these to make up for it!
Oh my goodness…these look so good. I’m on a diet and this causes me to salivate 😉
Oh no! Your pictures (along with the recipe!) are soo scrumptious that I’m afraid I have to go eat some chocolate. It looks like you could run a bakery, and I think I’ll have to head to the kitchen for some serious baking. : )
wow! these are awesome! i have always seen the somoa cupcakes at different cupcake bakeries. i noticed coffee in your recipe batter. funny because my post this week is the mocha cake. check it out on my food blog. www.crustybread.wordpress.com p.s. i love your food blog!
Those cupcakes look amazing! I’m Gluten Free so I usually just skip desserts. I really miss desserts. And those chocolate covered peanut butter cookies that the Girl Scouts have.
Another recipe. Hope I`ll learn how to bake. never tried it.
I`m craving for something which I don`t know what. But when I saw your cupcake I told my self that`s what I want now. The frosting looks delicious. If only I can grab one in the monitor of my laptop.
Wendy – these cupcakes look incredibly delicious. How creative to make a cupcake verison of Girl Scout cookies! I wish I had one in front of me right now….
I love girl scout cookies. What a great idea, sounds delicious!
Oh look another baker. Hello. Lets connect and share some recipes. Have a beautiful day!!
Oh look another baker. Hello. We should connect and share recipes. This has been my passion since I was a child. It is so fun. I will have to try your cup cakes. Yummy!!!! Have a great day!
Yummy! I know many people in my house who would love these!! 🙂
I just bought a box of Somoas this week. Love them! They are called something new this year though. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I love cupcakes. I pinned this one to my cupcakes board on Pinterest.
I just read another recipe this week for Thin Mint Truffles. 3 ingredients and yummy! 🙂
Who’s favorite isn’t the Samoa’s? Hehe. Those things are the BEST. I’ve been finding recipes online of how to make cookies similar to them, but never saw cupcakes (until now!). These look delish! How fun that you created the recipe. 🙂
Hello Wendy,
this looks delicious. Although, preparation does seems little bit complicated. But, I am sure they taste great.
Yum, yum, yum! These look so good that I’m practically speechless!
So decadent, I must try them. Cupcakes make me happy.
Thanks for sharing this on “Foodie Friday” link up again.
These look incredible! I SO want one now now now! Please, why can’t someone invent taste-blogs? Is that too much to ask? As for my fave GS cookie – shortbread, hands down!
I am totally making these cupcakes! They look soooo delicious!! Thanks for the recipe 🙂 (And I’m sure my husband will thank you too after he eats one!)
LOL Erin! My husband bought me a diamond ring after eating one. 😉
Yummy! My favorite cookie hands down. Can’t wait to try it!
Your Samoa Cupcakes are just awesome, and I can’t wait to give them a try! Hope you have a great week end and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Oh yum! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. This is definitely going on my “to do” list!
suzy
Wow what great looking cupcakes! I need to work up the courage to try them!
I don’t usually like cupcakes, but these look delicious! I loved girl scout cookies when I was little!
These are gorgeous! Great photography! My favorite Girl Scout cookie would be the Samoa but I can’t eat them nowadays since I cannot have gluten. I am sure I would have loved this cupcake though! Thanks for sharing such gorgeous food porn with us today. 🙂
Those look amazing! Great pics by the way 😉
Oh my goodness! I love Samoas and I love cupcakes! I would say that these are going to be made at my house… probably this weekend!
Those look amazing! I wish I had more time to bake.
Oh wow– YUM!! This is the first year that we do not have anyone to buy girl scout cookies from (my daughter was in for 5 years and then a cousin was in last year). It is probably a good thing as the packaged cookies really aren’t in my diet and it is so hard to not eat girl scout cookies.
Our favorite hands down is the Samoa….with thin mints coming in second. I definitely am going to have to try your cupcakes.
A BIG Thank you for not using a cake mix too! I am trying to stay away from things like that so this is a double yeah for me!
YUM! These look great. I have such fun memories of selling cookies at booths and door to door. I love Samoas too.
I will need to try those! Samoa’s are my fav girl scout cookie!
Holy smokes, these look fantastic. Samoa is my favorite girl scout cookie, so I know I will love these. Thanks for sharing!
You said the word Cake – so here I am!! lol. These look absolutely delicious!!
Oh my goodness–you are a cupcake rock star!! Those cupcakes look amazing. I am just learning how to pipe frosting, so I am going to have to give these a try. Pretty cupcakes are so fun!
I can’t ever make these cupcakes. I would eat ALL of them.
I’m not much on coconut but boy I love the thin mints. I could just imagine a cupcake with that taste. I’m so hungry now.
You are a very, very, very bad person! *giggles* I’m making my grocery list right now!
They look wonderful. I also saw a couple of other recipes here that are calling my name!
Oh. goodness. These look amazing!!! yummy!
I only like the Trefoils, but Samoas are my mom’s favorite. I need to share this recipe with her!
My mother in law would just love these she loves the Samoa cookies. I might have to make these for her. We really like cupcakes at our house thanks for sharing your recipe
Made em! They are AWESOME! (i only had mini cupcake papers though, and they don’t work so well – not enough to scoop out). Only question Wendy – where do I use rhe coconut extract and the chocolate chips? I used and extra tsp vanilla and ignored the chips and these still tasted fabulous, just wondering.
Oh my goodness….I re-read that recipe a bazillion times. Can’t believe I missed those. I’ll go update it for you. So sorry! Glad you made them though!!!! What did you think?
Delicious! I think I could bathe in that frosting too!
Ummm, YES PLEASE.
I shouldn’t have read this so close to dinner time. And frosting is my number one sweet (I can eat it from the jar), so if this is ‘take a bath in it’ worthy, I AM IN. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this. Off to pin it!
YUM! YUM! YUM! Samoas are my favorite Girl Scout cookies!!!! Thank you for sharing the recipe (and your photos are phenomenal!).
I liked your Facebook page so I can keep following!
I am sooo keeping this receipe!
oh my word… aahk. I LOVE chocolate and those look super yummy! BUT I have just told myself I have to let go of chocolate, for health reasons. Whoa those look good though.
These sounds really nice I think I will try them out soon
These look delicious! You always have such insanely good recipes. If only I had even an iota of talent to pull them off.
Wow, these look so good! You make me want to eat cupcakes!!!
My nieces are Girl Scouts, so I had four boxes of cookies this year. (And my mom tried to give me more!) My absolute favorites are the lemon ones, but any of the ones with peanut butter will do in a pinch.
those cupcakes look so good to eat now!! 😀
They look delicious, but seems like way too much work for me! I’m not a huge samoa fan to begin with though, so that may be why!
Wow! I am sending this link to my “Girl Scout Cookie obsesed” friend now! She’ll have these whipped up in no time and then I can have one!
🙂
Lisa
Your pictures are awesome, they make the cupcakes looks very scrumptious. I would agree, think mint and samoa cookies are the BEST.
These looks absolutely delicious. Samoas are my dad’s favorite but i think we OD’ed on Girl Scout cookies back when my mom ran our cookie sale so we have not had any in YEARS! (the horror!)
omg those look amazing and that icing looks just epic and sound it too!! I pinned this for later lol!!
those sound delicious…saved this site to make some at a later date
My stomach is rumbling! Here in Upstate NY I have not seen one Girl Scout cookie yet! (Probably a good thing). What a great idea to make cupcakes out of them. I am about to make these and be the family hero!
Okay, I’ll admit it — I’d never, ever get into that much trouble for making a cupcake.
The truth: I’m Greek, born, raised and living overseas. We’re just not used to eating cupcakes… but we make great halva, milk-pies and sweet preserves 🙂
is that the cupcake recipe? When I read it last night I wanted to marry you. I’m kinda glad I don’t have all the ingredients on hand, that could be quite dangerous (for my waistline…) 😉
They look yummy
These look crazy good!
Wendy…STOOOOOP!! Oh MY Goodness…samoa cupcakes…gotta try ’em!!
I think I’m salivating!! Am going to try them ASAP. Thank you, Wendy!
Samoa? You have my attention! 😀
What a great idea! These look so yummy!
Oh my that looks divine! What the difficulty level on a scale from 1-10? My food never turns out that pretty, I’m so jealous!
Deedra,
The cupcakes aren’t hard at all. There were a lot of little details and steps, but they were super easy. You don’t have to do the fancy frosting swirl on top…just a simple swipe of frosting with a knife and then drizzle with chocolate and coconut would be pretty too!
Just bury me with a case of Samoans (“Caramel Delights”!). I can’t get enough of those things. And now here you come with cupcakes to match. What are you doing to us???!?
Drooling here as well. I have no baking skills what so ever, so I have to live vicariously through everyone else’ s baking adventures!
Just use a cake mix instead of scratch cake. They will be almost as tasty, but lots easier for someone who doesn’t bake. 🙂
Those look amazing! coffee and chocolate, what more could you want?!
You had me at Samoa. Those have always been my favorite cookies. These cupcakes look absolutely delicious.
Hi this little cupcake looks wonderful. I just posted a few days ago Do-si-dos cookies. I have printed off your samoas recipe and will try these sometime. I have made the cookies the cupcakes sound much easier, Nice post thank you andi
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These look so wonderful! Yummy
Oh yum! I am pinning these as we speak. I wish I were eating one right now 🙂
I was drooling at the title. :melting
Been a leader for almost 8 years and have never seen a cupcake made with these fabulous cookies, they look great!!
YUM!
:think I’ll make some GF chocolate/mocha cupcakes and use the filling/frosting.
Oh, yum.
I’m too lazy for all that work but they look delicious!!