W, our resident wine connoisseur, was throwing one of his usual awesome wine parties so I decided to do some baking for it. I was very excited to try out these two recipes that I had stumbled upon....Homemade Thin Mints and Homemade Samoas!! This first attempt of mine wasn't the most successful, but it wasn't a complete failure either. Both cookies tasted great (which is the most important part), just the thin mints came out a little bit more crispy and a lot more melty than I would have liked while the samoas came out a little bit too crumbly and a lot bit too messy than I would have liked.
For the thin mints my mistake was I, because the recipe warns about cutting the cookies too thick , I ended up cutting them too thin which didn't even out with the baking time listed. So when making these cookies be very aware of your cookie thickness to baking time ratio. I also tried to be creative with the thin mints by substituting some of the chocolate in the coating with Andes Mints to try to give the cookies even more of a minty taste. This didn't quite work out as I think adding in the Andes Mints was what caused the chocolate mixture to not stay solid at room temperature. The cookies had to be put back in the refrigerator after sitting out for only 5-10 minutes.
For the samoas, these cookies were delicious, but were a crumbly sticky mess. I'm not sure how to fix this one, maybe less caramel next time? maybe I'll try a different cookie recipe such as this one? Although the cookie part of the recipe I used was really tasty, so maybe I don't want to mess with that. No matter what recipe I use I will definitely stick with the idea of making them into bar cookies as this is so much easier than cutting a bunch of single cookies out and topping each of them. Oh and I also omitted the coconut shavings in my version which makes me like these samoas so much better that the real girl scout cookie version.
Armed with these recipes, now I can have girl scout cookies any time of year and just the way I like them! :)
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For the thin mints my mistake was I, because the recipe warns about cutting the cookies too thick , I ended up cutting them too thin which didn't even out with the baking time listed. So when making these cookies be very aware of your cookie thickness to baking time ratio. I also tried to be creative with the thin mints by substituting some of the chocolate in the coating with Andes Mints to try to give the cookies even more of a minty taste. This didn't quite work out as I think adding in the Andes Mints was what caused the chocolate mixture to not stay solid at room temperature. The cookies had to be put back in the refrigerator after sitting out for only 5-10 minutes.
For the samoas, these cookies were delicious, but were a crumbly sticky mess. I'm not sure how to fix this one, maybe less caramel next time? maybe I'll try a different cookie recipe such as this one? Although the cookie part of the recipe I used was really tasty, so maybe I don't want to mess with that. No matter what recipe I use I will definitely stick with the idea of making them into bar cookies as this is so much easier than cutting a bunch of single cookies out and topping each of them. Oh and I also omitted the coconut shavings in my version which makes me like these samoas so much better that the real girl scout cookie version.
Armed with these recipes, now I can have girl scout cookies any time of year and just the way I like them! :)
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OOoh. Yummy. You are a 24/7 girl scout cookie person now!
ReplyDeleteI would like to request a batch of samoas!
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